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Peach Bowl Preview with Grant Shouse & Mike Hutsell (2.136.3) · The Central Indiana Sports Report

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[SPEAKER_01]: You are listening to a special edition of the IU Report with Grant Shows and My Cutsal, their preview of the Peach Bowl between the Indiana Hoosiers and the Oregon Ducks.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Join us Friday night after the game for our recap and reaction, then Wednesday for our weekly IU Report.
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[SPEAKER_01]: And it's only on the Central Indiana Sports Report.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Welcome back IE fans to a special edition of the IE report today with Grant Shelf and my cut soul here on the Central Indiana Sports Report is.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We're supposed to be preview and something here I can't remember what is there anything significant going on with Indiana football on Friday Mike.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think I heard something about
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[SPEAKER_02]: came in Georgia for some reason, I don't know.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We've never ventured to these parts of the country before, so we kind of got all learned here together.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're playing and something called a semi-final and football here, you're gonna have to explain this one to me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The way I interpret it as is that they are putting them, they're trying to put themselves in a position
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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... a national championship and american football now they've had that they've had great soccer teams over the years at indiana and you know where you go in the world depends if you call football or soccer uh... we call soccer
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[SPEAKER_00]: somewhere else.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I shake probably in South America over, over across the pond, you would say, oh, yeah, Indiana's got a great football team this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, well, just like every year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now this year's a little different.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is the actual football.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And they have a chance to put themselves in a position to go win a national championship, which is just unbelievable to think about
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, the peach ball.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The Chick-fil-A peach ball.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Just can't get over that, man.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's unbelievable.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Against the organ ducks, a not a traditional from the sense of like historically decades worth of
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[SPEAKER_02]: of wins and national championships, a powerhouse, but certainly of this millennium, one of the, what would you say, four best programs in college football during that time, even without a national title, they played for two.
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[SPEAKER_02]: in the playoff era.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They they lost a came newton in a championship game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They lost to Ohio State.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And in the inaugural college football playoff.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And
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[SPEAKER_02]: just, you know, the cool school, the Nike University, all these different uniforms.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And if you have kids of a certain age, this is the team they picked to play with on the college football game, on PlayStation.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This is like the, this is the in-vogue, this is the cool team.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And that's who Indiana gets to face, they've,
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[SPEAKER_02]: played the traditional power of college football and the rose bowl and we saw what happened there when they beat the dogs not out of Alabama and now it's Oregon in the college football playoffs in my finals and that's still just a real statement to make.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, this is actually the first time that you and I have been able to preview Indiana and Oregon this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The first time
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[SPEAKER_00]: and it got a little interesting.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, so we did not get to preview that together.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm glad that we get another shot here at a preview Indiana and Oregon together, Mike.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Hey, man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Uh, uh, the past is the past and uh, it was not a, we're not going to, we're not going to, we're not going to dwell on it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe we shouldn't preview this game together.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Maybe we should, uh, I'm thinking.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It worked out pretty well last time when we didn't, so maybe we should cancel the rest of this show and you can go find a sidekick.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I think Grant should leave this time and see what happened.
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[SPEAKER_01]: No, we should probably just see you Mike.
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[SPEAKER_01]: All right, bye guys.
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[SPEAKER_01]: Have a good weekend.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'll be in Atlanta if you need me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I guess it's just us not Grant.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Well, here here's the thing is maybe that's what Indiana needed.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They needed a little.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, a little wake up call from from my cuttle when Greg Mengel and all seriousness.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I think this was this is the mother of all rematches Indiana, Indiana and Oregon was a great game the first time and I think for for a long time and maybe still, uh, it was the best win of this season in college football.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe the probably the regular season best win of the year Indiana went out on the road and
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[SPEAKER_00]: you don't want to say necessarily dominated because they didn't dominate on the scoreboard, but they controlled most of that game late or an early fourth quarter pit sticks kept organ in the game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They missed the crucial field goal the first time.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Indiana gave up one of those long, one of those long busted coverage touchdowns that they give up occasionally.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Other than that,
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, they said Dante more six times in that game, and I don't know if he would want that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Yeah, but it's actually one time going into it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They got to him six times and
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[SPEAKER_02]: Of course, it's a different Indiana defense coming into this because we all know that Kellon Wyatt played the first game, Steve and Daley played the first game and you won't see either one of those guys on Friday night, unfortunately, and in the first game, it looked a little bit to me and we talked about it afterwards that Dante kind of maybe got dinged up a little bit in that game and wasn't as mobile as we all know he can be, but
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[SPEAKER_02]: bright hands man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That guy's a he's a lunatic and everything he's done this year has been he's done right and who knows what he's got cooked up because they said that
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[SPEAKER_02]: go into the band with out daily, they kind of just did a whole new system.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And they put one games worth of film together for Oregon to study rather than having a whole season based on the personnel that they had.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So let me ask you this question.
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[SPEAKER_00]: This is one of the things that's been living on my mind is that
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[SPEAKER_00]: there's been some things that have gone on here in the in the week leading up to this that really give Indiana and advantage.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The first being and we'll get to the second.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I know we all know the second.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I guess I'll just say it now is that Oregon has one running back that's hurt and probably out actually is out for this game and the other ones are the transfer portal and they have three backs that they rotate through and two of them won't be available.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So Advantage Indiana only having to worry about one of those running backs.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The second, or I guess the first thing I wanted to say was, Oregon's offensive coordinator will Stein was just named the head coach of Kentucky, the defensive coordinator, Tosh Lupoi, was just named the head coach, Tau, and with the transfer portal opening this week,
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right, these guys are not only game prepping for Indiana and the Peach Bowl, but they're also trying to find guys for their next roster.
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[SPEAKER_00]: they're going in the portal and then they're trying to assemble a staff and again I know it was different because these guys had had these jobs before the James Madison game and also the the Texas tech game but now that the portal's open you have to focus a lot on getting guys for your next team and also on game prep do you think that helps her or henders
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[SPEAKER_02]: anyone can conceivably do it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And when you start with a wife and a kid and tuckie, we talk about we'll start with a duckie.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's not just doing the portal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's doing the portal well, man.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They've had a, they've had a good couple days.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They're putting together a top 10 portal class in Lexington, and he's had to have been involved in that.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And he has to do that job because he's getting a, he's getting a paycheck from Kentucky.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's got two full
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[SPEAKER_02]: one of which is game prepping for the biggest game he'll ever coach in to this point in his career as an offensive coordinator.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we talked a little bit about it with Signetti on the IU report.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And we said then I don't know how a coach does it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Coaches in the playoff and manages the portal.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I couldn't imagine what it's like coaching at one school and trying to navigate the portal at another.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What is day and landing expecting from these guys?
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[SPEAKER_02]: What's he getting from these guys?
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[SPEAKER_02]: And I'm not more power to them.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They made pull it off and they made pull it off well.
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[SPEAKER_02]: But I just don't know how a human being could navigate these two things right now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: What the demands they go into each position now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: One big advantage for Will Stein.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's got one of the top four quarterbacks in the country.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's got it explosive offense.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's got the best tight end in the country who will go in the first round and the NFL draft.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So there's no shortage of talent on that end of the ball.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So maybe he doesn't have to scheme up a whole heck of a lot, but it's, you got to put a lot of focus in new a lot of places and more power to these guys that they can pull it off.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I can't imagine it not being a distraction.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's just human nature, right?
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, Oregon does things just like Indiana, landing at least to my knowledge.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I may be wrong here, and if I'm wrong, correct me.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But landing does not call the place.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Lupoic calls the defense of place.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Stine calls the offense of place.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Similar to how Indiana does it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Mike Shanahan calls all the plays on offense.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Right hand schemes up the defense.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That's how Oregon does it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Like you said, unless you're not really concerned about it, but I may be you should be against Indiana's defense, which is one of the, well, it is the best in the country.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, there's a lot of things to go into.
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[SPEAKER_00]: There's probably some sleepless nights this week.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And then on top of it, you have to factor in that organ has to travel to the other all the way to the, basically the East Coast to play this game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The second week in a row.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, and Indiana's just going down the road pretty much, a quick flight.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So again, a lot of things favor and point to Indiana to have a good game here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Now with that being said, Oregon's not going to make it easy.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The, this is not going to be like the first time around.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oregon's going to come out tighter.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to be able to move the ball better.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to be able to, I think, throw wrinkles that Indiana may be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They haven't.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They didn't really prepare for that.
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[SPEAKER_00]: weren't really thinking about.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But my thing is, is that Indiana is going to be ready to play this game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And to get the Rose ball out of the way, I don't think.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And I hope to God, I'm right, knock on wood.
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[SPEAKER_00]: is that I don't think this is going to be a hangover game from the Roseville.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've seen Indiana all year be able to respond after wins, win after win after win with even better performances the following weeks.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So again, I like Indiana's chances here to come out and not only win one bowl game for the first time since 1991, but win two bowl games.
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[SPEAKER_00]: since 1991 and one of them and they both come in the same season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So hopefully they can get it done.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I really like their chances here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: But again, Oregon will not make it easy for this team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It's going to be a good game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, you don't have to feel about metrics.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I'm a big metrics guy.
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[SPEAKER_02]: The S&P says this is going to be a two to three-point game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, Vegas started it for
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[SPEAKER_02]: and surprisingly enough with 80% of the public money coming in on Indiana, the line didn't go up at all.
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[SPEAKER_02]: In fact, I think it actually went down.
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[SPEAKER_00]: It did.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So yeah, I think it's three and a half now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So if you're expecting any sort of BMS style, 38 to three game here,
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[SPEAKER_02]: there's nothing that would suggest that's going to be the case.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Um, yes, in peace, as these are the two best teams in the country and they very well could be right and people kind of wrote organ off because they lost one time at home to what ended up being the number one team in the country and they haven't, they haven't really, they had a tough game at Iowa like Indiana had a tough game at Iowa.
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[SPEAKER_02]: in a disastrous rain night and they kicked a game winning field goal but they've
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[SPEAKER_02]: They've done really, really well since then, and James Madison put up a big number on them in the second half, but that game was over at halftime.
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[SPEAKER_02]: We saw what they did to Texas deck.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I tell you about never a game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Texas decks defense did everything it could to keep that game close, but Oregon just started up dominated, and they were an underdog in that game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: After by the time the kicked off, Texas deck was favored.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It was a one and a half point spread.
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[SPEAKER_00]: The thing is, though, is that Texas tech's offense is nowhere near Indiana's offense.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Texas tech's offense was just a baseball in that first game against the Oregon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's a slight difference between Barry Morton, the Texas Tech QB and Fernando Mendoza.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's slightly noticeable, but only slightly.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Texas Tech with a really, really good defense of line, maintain the Oregon offense to some degree and kept them in the game as long as they possibly could, but their offense just kept making mistakes and eventually the damn broken Oregon ran away with it there in the fourth quarter, but
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[SPEAKER_02]: organs good.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's there's just no way around it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's mock drafts that say Dante more could be taken ahead of for an end home and does it even though it does is the high has been winner and been projected as the top quarterback in this draft seemingly all season, but now there's a school of logic that puts more ahead of him and I don't necessarily know that that's incorrect because he's he's really freaking good.
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[SPEAKER_00]: I wanted to run down some numbers here, but before I do, that some of this kind of changes now that Oregon has had Jaden Lamar go into the transfer portal and TJ Davis and break as clavicle, neither of them will play against Cindy Anna, so that really leaves Noah
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[SPEAKER_00]: could see some snaps in the backfield on offense on Friday night if if they choose to use him.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So these these rushing stats which actually a couple of them favor Oregon a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Kind of have a dent put in them and I didn't have time to really go through and see how they would change here.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So these are these aren't as accurate as they probably should be.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Again, these are team stats, but without Lamar and without Davis and it kind of changes the way you look at it a little bit.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Of course, Indiana's 14-0, Oregon's 13-1.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Indiana averages 41 points again, Oregon averages 38-game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Indiana allows 10-game, Oregon allows 15-game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Indiana scored 583 total points this year, Oregon has scored 532.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Indiana has allowed 144 points total this season, Oregon has given up 212 points this year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Indiana holds the edge in first downs with 342 to organs three hundred and eleven.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They've rushed the ball more on first down, so 169, Oregon has 140.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Both teams are even in passing first downs, both with 150 for each team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Indiana's rushed the ball as a team for
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oregon averages five and a half yards per play, Indiana only averages 5.4 yards per play.
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[SPEAKER_00]: uh... as a team during a game indiana's hour centunit and twenty yards on the ground per game organ two hundred and six yards on the ground per game organ is had thirty four rushing touchdowns to indiana's thirty one they've actually passed the ball organ has more as a team for more yards three thousand five hundred and nineteen indiana's three thousand four hundred and sixty three
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[SPEAKER_00]: Looking at some more here, Indiana more passing touchdowns, 41.org and 29.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 6,553 total yards of offense for IU to ordered 645 total yards.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Indiana averages 7 yards per play, Oregon averages 6.9, just pretty nice.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Indiana with 468 yards per game on offense to
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[SPEAKER_00]: yards a game on offense.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Indiana's had the ball longer.
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[SPEAKER_00]: On average 33 minutes and 26 seconds to Oregon's 30 minutes and 57 seconds.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And Indiana's better on third down 56% conversion rate on third down 96 for 170 as a team.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oregon's only 45% on forked down conversions 79 for 174.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oregon of
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[SPEAKER_00]: Forkdown conversion 60% is the team, Indiana only 50% is the team on forkdown.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Indiana scored 76 touchdowns on the year.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They've only allowed 13.
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[SPEAKER_00]: 13 touchdowns this year and Oregon has scored 14.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, if this did, yeah, if this did happen, they wouldn't have scored, you know, they wouldn't have scored that touch down.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Two of those 13 came from a quarterback in Old Dominion.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, one of them on the first play of this season.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Me and my dad sat here and kind of ran that down like Old Dominion score two on a long run.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Um, Illinois scored one on a broken play, Iowa kind of made them earn it.
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[SPEAKER_00]: We've talked about it on here before.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Iowa made them earn a touchdown kind of thing.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Oregon, pick six, and again, bus to coverage for a touchdown Michigan state.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was just like, that was garbage.
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[SPEAKER_00]: My God.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was garbage, Indiana gave up some garbage there.
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[SPEAKER_00]: trying to think what else, you see, I laid it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's worth catching the, the, the, the Wisconsin play the pitch in the hospital.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, they've actually only allowed one touchdown since then.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that was two months ago.
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[SPEAKER_00]: That was, no, no, they had one of the Ohio State.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I know that's what I'm saying.
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[SPEAKER_00]: They've only allowed one touchdown since.
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[SPEAKER_00]: And that was the one in the Ohio State game.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Okay, okay, the Wisconsin game was two months ago is what you're saying.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, yeah So that's pretty you got that field goal, though, man The Bayerio and special Boy, they're up Bayerio to have been Kael in the board.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They got those field goals on the board, guys They made it three possession game at the repossession game Anytime you can do it you got to you've got to
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[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so my, this is the question I want to ask you here is you're going to the game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: First of all, tell me what you expect out of the experience from the game, just kind of what you think's going to happen, not necessarily a score, but what you think's going to happen in the game, and I'll tell you what I think.
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[SPEAKER_02]: First of all, from an experienced standpoint, I'm expecting again, just an absolute sea of red down there in in Atlanta, and there's just actual, like, there's a, there's a group leaving Memorial Stadium tomorrow morning at 730, like a, like, they're calling it the herd, the herd of Bison headed down 65, and I won't be part of that, but I'll be headed down 65
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know so many people who are going to this game, and I don't know or, and it's like, people and my family are going that my niece is going, she thought half the season, the guy's name was Ferdinand, Mendoza.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This team's captured so many people, and so many people are wanting to be a part of this, and I just think, you know, God bless Oregon.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's Indiana fans who went to the organ development on their website and bought those up.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So it's tough for a team like Oregon to travel to Miami, then go home, travel back to Atlanta, and then if they went, they'll have to go back to Miami.
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[SPEAKER_02]: So with it being just such a short drive, I just think this place is gonna be overwhelmed with Indiana fans.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And it's gonna sound like a home game on television.
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[SPEAKER_00]: Some of it did the road from the game itself.
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[SPEAKER_02]: My brother and law niece were out there for that one.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And they said that might have been 60, 40, 65, 35, Bama, or IU over Bama.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think this is probably going to be more 80, 20.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If that, maybe 90, 10.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I think we're going, obviously they travel.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They've got fans a little bit of everywhere,
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[SPEAKER_02]: everything I've seen and heard and been told to expect is it's going to just be an absolute sea.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Even the big ten championship game, which most people thought was going to be a about a 50 50 split.
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[SPEAKER_02]: That came across to me much more of an Indiana crowd.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know it was in Indianapolis.
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[SPEAKER_02]: I know it was an Indianapolis, but Ohio State fans, they get in and it sure to me felt to me like Indian.
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[SPEAKER_02]: If the team's taken out, this is Indian as team now because the basketball team is so far out in the abyss for so many years and Indian fans wanted to cling to something.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They wanted to get a win, they wanted to have a winner to follow and support and
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[SPEAKER_02]: They've got one now and they've got a coach that they absolutely adore.
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[SPEAKER_02]: They've got a Heisman winner for the first time in their lives.
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[SPEAKER_02]: It's
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[SPEAKER_02]: this team is just completely captivated the state and go back to, you know, Greg, Greg, you remember it probably, but you were much younger when the cults were on their run, and they went to the Super Bowl and how much the cults took over the state of collectively and how a dored Peyton Manning is.
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[SPEAKER_02]: There's some, there's some similar to that
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[SPEAKER_02]: Mendoza is playing the part of Peyton.
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[SPEAKER_02]: He's the beloved figure.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And everybody liked Tony Dungee back then.
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[SPEAKER_02]: Well, everybody loves Kurt Signetti now.
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[SPEAKER_02]: This was a fan base desperate to support a win.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And they finally got it.
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[SPEAKER_02]: And they are completely on board with it right now.
25:16
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, that's the thing I wanted to ask you now is, see, again, you mentioned the cults.
25:23
[SPEAKER_00]: But I want to take it a step further
25:26
[SPEAKER_00]: I never got to see night.
25:29
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I know about everything there is to know about the guy.
25:33
[SPEAKER_00]: As terms of what he did as a coach and just the kind of person he was, which was great sometimes not great others, but the way he was idolized and loved here, beloved in the
25:56
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm asking this to you and Greg, because that didn't see it.
25:58
[SPEAKER_00]: Is it similar to how people treat Kurt Stig netty now, you think?
26:05
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think Stig's there yet.
26:07
[SPEAKER_02]: For better or for worse, night was almost had reached like a status that some ways would make some people uncomfortable because of how supported he was.
26:19
[SPEAKER_02]: Some people would call him almost cult like, for good reason.
26:25
[SPEAKER_02]: stay at what's they in short for fanatic people are crazy fans are crazy and they they looked for something to cling to night had that effect on the state because it was it was a different era to it was there wasn't a hundred and ninety five thousand things to take your attention away from it you pretty much
26:53
[SPEAKER_02]: one of them played Purdue, one of them played IU, and you watched IU games, and sometimes you recorded them on the VCR, and you watched them again later in the week.
27:05
[SPEAKER_02]: So, no, I don't think SIGs at the Bob Knight level yet.
27:09
[SPEAKER_02]: If you wins, yeah, you can, yeah, but it's a different air, the air is a so different too.
27:24
[SPEAKER_02]: I always have to go first in this, I feel like, man, this is always pressure.
27:27
[SPEAKER_02]: It's going to be my game, it's going to be a close game, I expect nothing else.
27:33
[SPEAKER_02]: I think it's, I think it probably is the two, it's the two best teams left playing in the country right now, are playing each other in the semi-final, and it's arguably the two best teams in the country all season, are playing in the semi-final.
27:49
[SPEAKER_02]: Oregon has Dalton Thineman, the Westfield grad on their team, we all know where he started his college career and he's talked a little bit of smack this week, he's a Purdue guy.
28:04
[SPEAKER_02]: the Purdue stench is going to be a little too much to overcome for the ducks.
28:08
[SPEAKER_02]: They got as far as they could with a boiler maker involved, but at the end of the day that that you can't win with Purdue being involved.
28:19
[SPEAKER_02]: So I'm going to go Indiana, 27 Oregon, 21, they get the win, they get the cover,
28:29
[SPEAKER_02]: and they are on to Miami for homecoming game for Fernando Bendoza and a chance to win the school's first ever national championship.
28:40
[SPEAKER_02]: They don't even pretend that they won one like Purdue doesn't basketball.
28:49
[SPEAKER_01]: Well, I would never get enough to be able to do that.
28:51
[SPEAKER_01]: Maybe 1967.
28:55
[SPEAKER_01]: I think this game is the national championship, I think they're by far the two best teams left.
29:01
[SPEAKER_01]: If you watch the first game, they played play by play, it's pretty much even.
29:06
[SPEAKER_01]: I think we're looking at a classic, I think we're looking at something really, really close.
29:14
[SPEAKER_01]: One big play probably makes the difference.
29:16
[SPEAKER_01]: I waffled on the college football report with Eric and Ryan.
29:20
[SPEAKER_01]: I started with Oregon, I started to play off with Oregon and I just
29:24
[SPEAKER_01]: I have a feeling it's just I use here.
29:26
[SPEAKER_01]: Give me I U by a point.
29:30
[SPEAKER_01]: 21 20.
29:34
[SPEAKER_00]: I will take Indiana winning this game of course.
29:39
[SPEAKER_00]: Indiana will score 31 points.
29:43
[SPEAKER_00]: Oregon will score 23 points.
29:46
[SPEAKER_00]: Again Indiana gets the win.
29:48
[SPEAKER_00]: They get the cover.
29:49
[SPEAKER_00]: I think it's a great back and forth game throughout I just think Indiana kind of like the first time kind of pulls away at the end.
29:57
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm I'm excited.
30:01
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm missing a crappy high school basketball game for it.
30:06
[SPEAKER_00]: I know that there are some people who love listening to.
30:10
[SPEAKER_00]: Grant Shows call a game on the action sports network that are probably going to be disappointed Friday night, but this is a one ton of lifetime opportunity, and I'm sorry that I will not be there to broadcast a girl's high school basketball game.
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[SPEAKER_00]: So I'd like to apologize to the people now.
30:26
[SPEAKER_02]: I will be a host to make the cover very important.
30:30
[SPEAKER_02]: We got to get this in before the show.
30:33
[SPEAKER_02]: One thing we haven't talked about yet.
30:36
[SPEAKER_02]: We can't we can't leave this part out.
30:38
[SPEAKER_02]: Covered starts at 730.
30:39
[SPEAKER_02]: I don't think it kicks until after 8.
30:43
[SPEAKER_02]: What time do we get the text from Grant that says this game's over?
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[SPEAKER_02]: 735.
30:51
[SPEAKER_02]: Oh, you're going before the game even starts.
30:55
[SPEAKER_02]: If I say 823 is my official like over under time.
31:01
[SPEAKER_02]: Last weekend, it was the day before.
31:04
[SPEAKER_01]: That's true.
31:06
[SPEAKER_01]: So, I'm actually being conservative here.
31:12
[SPEAKER_02]: It's gonna be tough.
31:13
[SPEAKER_02]: I mean, Grant, are you gonna be able to hold it in or are you gonna get it out tomorrow?
31:19
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm actually really looking forward to saying it.
31:21
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm actually really looking forward to saying it to be honest.
31:24
[SPEAKER_02]: Wendy, Wendy, do you declare Oregon the victor?
31:30
[SPEAKER_00]: If they win the coin toss, probably, yeah.
31:34
[SPEAKER_01]: It's over.
31:36
[SPEAKER_01]: We get our first it's over text.
31:39
[SPEAKER_00]: I always say it's over.
31:40
[SPEAKER_00]: Fendi and I lose just a quick talk.
31:42
[SPEAKER_00]: So every time I just don't text it to you.
31:47
[SPEAKER_01]: You're hilarious.
31:49
[SPEAKER_02]: There's two different versions of it.
31:51
[SPEAKER_02]: There's it's over.
31:53
[SPEAKER_02]: And then at some point, maybe even later, when Indiana actually somehow overcomes the four-yard game by the running back on the first play of the game from the other team and and get manages to lead and the other team will score a touchdown to cut it to like 27 and Grant will be like, this isn't good, guys, one of my favorites is when Indiana is that big and
32:21
[SPEAKER_00]: people are like, oh, this is over.
32:23
[SPEAKER_00]: Indiana is going to win and I always say a lot of ball left.
32:27
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of ball left.
32:31
[SPEAKER_01]: The tradition.
32:31
[SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, I think there's so much.
32:33
[SPEAKER_01]: Let's talk after a big who's was win on Friday night.
32:39
[SPEAKER_02]: I'll be out the game.
32:40
[SPEAKER_01]: So you might get a text from me during the show when you're recording it, but completely understood, we'll get your thoughts on the IU report on Tuesday.
32:51
[SPEAKER_02]: All right, guys.
32:52
[SPEAKER_02]: Let's go Hovers.
32:54
[SPEAKER_01]: Go to you.
32:56
[SPEAKER_02]: Go to you.
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