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Episode 5.3: Husker Schedule Breakdown (By Importance) · Return to Glory - Nebraska

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M h The Glory Podcast. Others are Nick Years, Austin Rose, the
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Coda Free Tag, Da Coda Plus fourteen. This weekend, you couldn't even
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finish eighteen holes in golfs. Yeah it was rough. You know, the
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wind is about thirty miles an hour, and I think that that was the
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whole problem. Yeah, it was. It was all the wind. I
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was hitting straight shots. They were just getting taken. That's your ball though,
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right, No, no, it's the clubs could not have said you
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were a Texas fan last time. I'm not. I'm not. I lost
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in bed. I bet my brother's a Texas fan. Whoever was gonna,
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whoever lost the Red River rivalry would have to wear their team shirt every Saturday
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rest of the year. So I lost that, but barely. And I
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see you have your notes today on a piece of toilet paper paporite towel.
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You know it's gonna be a good past Well, hey, it's in sharpie
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though, though can't get a raised. Probably led through it sitting on top
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of your countertop. Now you'll forever having notes for episode. But it's three
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four, season five. Well, what we are doing today is the Husker
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football schedule preview and Big Ten previews. So what we've done similar to years
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past, we have gone through our schedule and each of us have individually ranked
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Nebraska's games. This year, we did it based on importance, so the
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most important game to the least important game, and as we go through,
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we will talk a little bit about each team, give our thoughts. Dak
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asked, are we doing just the Husker schedule? Yes we are. This
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is still a Husker football podcast. But Dak, what is the most important
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Oklahoma, Texas or I mean Oklahoma gave this year? You just said it
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Texas. Yea. If it's anything else, then you're wrong. Who's their
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non conference opponents? You have to know that as a fan. It is
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Akron, Tulsa. And then the third the third one, it's it's a
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new team. I don't know for sure who they got because they had to
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get they can't play George anymore, so it's something I think it might be.
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I honestly don't know who the third one is. It's some no name
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school, true fan. Often it's I'm googling it right now. They play
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Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Tulsa Cincinnati is their three nine con games. Look SMUs
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and not even an Akron. No Sancy, Fancy's in their conference. Now,
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oh that's right yet Arkansas State, Arkansas State. Sorry, my bad,
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there we go. So basically Akron basically all right. I want to
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say this. When I was I texted you guys, I was trying to
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break these the schedule down. It was harder. It was so hard,
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Like I didn't even know where to put number one or number twelve because it's
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buy importance. It's biculty and an importance. I didn't want to do easy
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games because let's be real, we have zero easy games on our schedule anymore.
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Oh, we are jumping around. But Oregon Washington gonna be on the
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schedule here in a couple of years. We like it, we don't like
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it. I'm interested to see because they kind of already came out with what
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they were playing on doing the schedule for the next several years. I'm assuming
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they're going to redo everything. I don't. Maybe I could be wrong,
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but um, I think I'm out on it. I think. I mean,
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if we're gonna get teams, sure, fine, I'm finally of Oregon
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and Washington. It is the SEC, the Big ten, like we talked
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about in the Big twelve is gonna stay afloat because they're getting a basketball conference,
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but they will be the basketball conference. And then we started it,
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Dak you are the one that set this thing in motion on Wednesday, you
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said teams are gonna follow the money. It was all you. Yep,
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that's if I was a Hotspool fan, I think i'd like Oregan Washington joining
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just because they're always they're solid, another solid program you're gonna play, and
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they might even bring in help your recruits to come from the West Coast more
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too. I just don't know if I'm gonna be jacked up because I know
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we're gonna because we're the most central team of their I don't want to say
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original Big ten, but the most recent Big ten. So we're gonna play
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a lot of those coast teams just so they don't have to play all the
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way across the country every week. Yeah, I don't know how I feel
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about it. I'm since all this stuff has started spiraling here, I mean
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even you could even say you could even say Nebraska started it in twenty ten.
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In our lifetime anyways, there obviously was a lot of movement from the
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Big Eight and stuff like that earlier on. But since all this stuff's gone
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on, the traditional rivalries, some of them are going to stay intact,
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Like when we play Colorado this year, it's gonna be around. But the
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college football landscape is just gonna be different. People have to accept it,
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and there's gonna be moving parts constantly all the time. It's not like one
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thing leads to another. How Colorado was the one that sparked the most recent
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one, Like that's what's caused all these Pac twelve teams now to start jumping
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ships. So we just got to get used to it, and we might
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be useful for two years and then it's gonna change again. Bottom line is
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we gotta win the freaking games, which we're not gonna be able to do
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if we don't change in a hurry, because our schedule could look like Oregon,
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Wisconsin, Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin, u C, L,
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a USC Like that doesn't sound fun playing those eight teams if they never
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had that damn long War network. We two Oklahoma and Nebraska every year,
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the damn long worn It's kind of true, Buck Texas, All right,
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Osker schedule, let's start at the bottom. I know we're gonna have our
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games all over the place. So yeah, I was when I was sitting
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because you said it was hard going through, and I was going and I
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was. I feel good about how it where I have mine, but I
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know there's no way in hell it lines up with you and Dak. I
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don't know what the fuck you're gonna do. We have my number one and
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number twelve. I'm really confident. In the middle was kind of tough.
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So the under ten, yep, I don't even know if you have the
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right schedule. I do one right, right, So let's do this.
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I'm gonna go through mine from twelve to one. But when I start with
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my number twelve game, you guys are gonna talk where you have that game
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and explain your logic behind it. Yeah that worked. Yeah, So my
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number twelve I have is September thirtieth, our first conference game, well second
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conference game, our first home conference game against Michigan. I have that my
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least important. I don't think we have a chance at winning that game,
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very small chance. I don't think if we lose it's gonna matter to anybody.
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We got to be sure we don't get blown out. But even if
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we do get blown out, like I think people are maybe expecting that.
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The only reason why that may look bad is because we were right there with
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them last year. But Jim harbas In this ninth year, they're coming off
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a very, very very strong season. They have two of the best four
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running backs in the in the conference. J J. McCarthy comes back,
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one of the few big ten quarterbacks to come back. I just don't see
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us winning that game anyway, and I just don't think it's very important in
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the grand scheme of things, Dak. Can you can take this one?
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I had it. I had it fourth most important game, Okay, just
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because if if you guys are four and oh going into that game, that's
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gonna be that place is gonna be rocket. It's rank give me one of
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the biggest games in a long time. I could completely agree with you.
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But we have to be four and oh for that to be the fourth most
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important. Yeah, that's the only way I see that being important. It's
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either that there's gonna get the shit kicked out of them. I haven't had
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six, so I'm definitely more towards Dack. But it's similar. It's kind
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of in between, like it's the first conference game at home. If we
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go out there and lay an egg. Probably not the best feeling, especially
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if again you're coming off maybe in three and one. But it's and again
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it's not expected that we win, but if we lose really bad, and
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then if we do win, it becomes much more important. So it's like
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it's kind of a middle of the road game for me, or you could
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you could be on forgan looking for your first land also true, or we're
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your own five, then it's even more important if it if we're going on
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four. I mean I started out owing five, people are gonna feel good.
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Say my theme goes along with that to where my most important games are
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definitely forms the end of the year because people are going to want to see
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progress with rule and staff on what he's doing with this team. So there's
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a couple of games that we'll get too year at some point that hopefully or
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wins. But other than that, like my most important games are towards the
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back end. So my number eleven and I struggled doing this because I think
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it's a very important game to set the tone, but it's the very first
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game against Minnesota on the road. I know, I know, I know,
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I struggled putting this there but my expectation is we're not going to win
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this game. We if we do, great, But I don't think it's
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very important. I think people are expecting us to go on and one obviously
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let's not get killed. But it is the first time we see we're gonna
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see a bunch of stuff that probably isn't gonna look good. I think PJ
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Flex got the culture established up there. They have a returning running quarterback,
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which we all know how we do with the running quarterbacks not good. I
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just don't have it. I don't know, I don't have eye expectations for
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I don't think it's very important. In looking at the whole schedule as a
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whole, wow, I disagree I have it one wow. I mean if
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you go up there so it's basic because it's I mean, if you go
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out there and it's been a summer of we're gonna be a discipline, we're
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into we're gonna do this, we're gonna do this, and we go out
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there and we just get throw a bunch of penalty flags where get absolutely rolled
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over physically. I don't expect us to win. But if we go out
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there and we look like a shittier team, than last year. After the
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off season. I think it just sets a really bad tone. I really
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do, agreed. I don't. I'm not saying we're gonna get killed,
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but I'm just expecting us to get beat thirty four twenty one, and yeah,
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we might not look as sloppy, but there's gonna be their moments.
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And I don't think it's that big of a deal if we lose thirty four
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twenty one. I don't think we lose. I think it's how we lose
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could be a really big deal. And if we win, I think that's
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also a very big deal. Agreed. I had it second most important just
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because no, there's two there's two games on here. I'd ranked like this
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because it's a standalone game. It's the first nine college football so everyone's me
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watching. It's gonna and it's your debut of your coach. You gotta look,
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you gotta come out like decent. At least I don't. You can't.
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So I see how you guys are looking at it. And this is
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why I have this this game, and I don't have Colorado as low.
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But to me, those games, yeah, they mean a lot on a
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national stage, and they're gonna get a lot of attention. People are gonna
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have spotlight eyes, But for rules, tenure and for the program, those
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games aren't as important as some of these other ones late where we should be
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seeing progress. Like you can't tell me that if we go we played Maryland
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at home in week in November eleventh, and we just lay a fucking egg
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in week like that one's gonna hurt a lot more than losing to Minnesota by
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ten in week one. I don't know you can deflate it. I mean
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we're a m base. That's the rule. It has been sipped. And
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then you go out there and you lose week one. I mean it'll hurt,
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but but what's good? Is that gonna hurt worse? Or is it
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gonna hurt worse dropping our ninth game against Maryland? Well, Maryland could be
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good. I mean they Minnesota we know is good, like better than you
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don't know they're good, but we know they're eight point favorites against us,
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nine point favorites, so they're better than us. We're favored against Maryland,
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so like expectation wise, like we're not supposed to win the Minnesota game.
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Like if we lose, we lose. That's one that's not if we win
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or lose. I think it's just a tone setter for the season for the
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coach. Like it's basically, I don't it is a tone setter if we
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win, but if we lose, I do not think it has an impact
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on the rest of the year. I really don't. Even if we get
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beat fifty two to seventeen and it's sloppier and ship people expect. I expect
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us to be sloppy Game one, I really do, but I think a
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lot of the fans don't have high expectations of us coming in and looking sharp.
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Spring game wasn't evident of that. I don't think this game won really
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matters. I really don't. From a if we win it it does,
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but I don't think if we lose. They don't think it's gonna hurt a
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lot of people because they know it's gonna take time. But losing later in
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the year, when we've had a full year of games, that's gonna hurt
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people's well. I'll save my comments on that for my last most important games
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here, but okay, we'll move off A ten or eleven on my ten
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is at Illinois. This with the Minnesota one, I struggled the word to
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put this game too. I think Illinois. I think that game in itself,
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win or lose is we We've lost Illinois in the past, and I
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feel like Illinois is gonna be good this year, sadly, so I don't
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think losing to them is gonna that big of a deal. I don't I
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take out the division. I was gonna say, Okay, they're a big
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ten West team, like we gotta beat them because they're a West school.
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The divisions are gonna be gone here in a couple of years, So like
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I took out the division aspect of it. I don't know. I just
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didn't get excited for that game on a Friday. Have them at I have
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them at eleven, so basically down at the bottom as well. I agree,
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I have them samn's most important, just same as that Minnesota thing,
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that this one is a true standout game. There's nothing else on Friday night,
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so that's that's one other reason. I guess everyone's gonna be watching it.
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So you guy, you guys show up a little bit, or maybe
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you just get stumped. I think there's a chance that Illinois actually could I
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don't know. I think Bilam has gotten his identity established only in year three
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at Illinois. That's what it lost. A lot of the lost a lot
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of senior talent, but they'll still be a world coach team. They lost
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Chase Brown and de Vito Yeah, but they brought in oh what does this
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say, Mississippi transfer Luke Altmeyer. So that's their quarterback. But then they
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have some really good cornerbacks as well. Yep, DBSy strong second theory.
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And they lost their DC to Purdue. That's right, Yeah, Nope,
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not to Purdue. He has to Purdue. Yeah two Purdue, yes,
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Bryan wal Yep, Okay. Number nine at Michigan State for me, another
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road game. This got this this I could put this at number two.
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I feel like too because the team that would be a statement win if we
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went on the road to East Lansing and win one and mel Tucker is he's
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not on the hot seat because what he's getting paid now over the next few
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years. But also at the same time, like, we could win this
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game. Their quarterbacks, this new dude that no one knows anything about.
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Noah can Like, it's a game that we could win. It could be
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a statement win. But at the same time, if we lose it.
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I don't know what it is towards the end of the year. I think
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this is more of a default where they fell on my list more than anything.
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So I didn't know where to put it. But Michigan State at nine,
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I have them at eight, so again, we're pretty close there.
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It's kind of funny. I thought we were going to be all over us
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when we started at Minnesota at eleven and then one, and it's like,
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oh boy, this could be a long one. But no, I agree.
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I think it's a it's a team that we couldn't be. We can
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lose. They're a really good brand, but it's on the road. It's
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towards the end, but not really towards the end. If we win,
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it's not a huge deal. If we lose, it's not a huge deal.
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And I don't think anyone's like getting up for that game. So I
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fifth on the list, all right. I know they've been down, I
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think or anything to beat Michigan States. It's a big names good it's they're
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not fun to watch at all, so I don't I don't even know if
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I'm gonna watch that game. But who's their quarterback now? Noah Kin that's
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his name. I looked it up. Huh, no idea, Peyton Thorne's
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gone. He sucked, he was, he was awful. But no,
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I think it's a good point in Dak. I think any win over Michigan
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State, or any time you play like a blue Bud school like that,
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it's probably it's an important game to an extent. And it's hard because they
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have not had a great past couple of years. But like last year or
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two years ago, played him out there fucking kicked the punt the wrong way
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and it tosses the whole game, right, And they're just a team that
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would be nice to beat him, But I don't know if we're good enough
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to do that yet. So number eight for me, I have Perdue.
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This is a game that we should win. We should win this game.
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We should now. I say that because we struggle beating Perdue every year.
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But they have a brand new head coach that's supposed to be taking over for
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their defense and improving their defense. And Ryan Walters Graham Harrell comes in as
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their offensive coordinator. Dac you know produce new QB is it transfer Hudson card
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oh okay TXs So really how it goes. They should be a disaster,
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perdue should be, but you never know, because we've been a disaster ourselves.
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I have it as number eight. It's gonna be a home game late
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October. Let's get a win and move on. We're deck I had it
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on tenth. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, there's not much hype
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on this game. I mean, I think Nebraska win it and it'll probably
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just be just be a low born game probably, I know we do won't
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have any offense, but we'll see. I think they'll win it easily.
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By Number seven is Maryland at home. Talia Tegabaloa back again. They only
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have Wonder Turner on the row line. Locksley's in his third year doing some
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good things at Maryland, two winning seasons. I think winning this game.
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It's a late later game in the year. We're getting now towards the middle
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of the pack, I would say for myself on importance, so we're in
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the middle of the year. I have it higher than the previous two because
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it's towards the end and we should hopefully be seeing progress and if we maybe
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have beat or loss to Purdue and or Mission State, like this is a
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game we can win at home. It'd be a good statement win for us,
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and it's I think it's pretty important late in the year before we go
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to Wisconsin and Iowa the remaining two games of the year. But chance to
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get a win here, maybe even get as BOLL eligible or close to that
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here in game number ten having a twelve, I just I don't know.
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It's one of those like, they're a good team, obviously you want to
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win it. I don't know how important it is to this season as a
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whole. I expect us to be, you know, a little under five
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hundreds, So this could be we could be going into this game, we
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could be five and four. You're pulling that out? Does make me want
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to bump it up? I agree, I did. I wasn't really thinking
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about where it was at the schedule. Has as impact to our Bowl eligibility
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or four and five two and need two wins out of our lasting right,
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Yeah, that's I had an eight just because of that, because it's late
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season. If you're a round BOI I'll do it. They'll be a big,
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big game, and I think Maryland's gonna be pretty good. Actually I
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do too, That's why I don't. I didn't think of. It's like,
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well, if we lose to Maryland, I expect them to have a
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decent season. I think to La, how do you say his name to
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Laila? Two? I think I don't know what tuela tongue any anyway,
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T T He's he might be the best Big Ten quarterback. T I okay,
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actually that you say that. Just looking at the rest of the Big
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Ten quarterbacks? I mean who else we got here? I'm not big on
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J. J. McCarthy at all. Who's the High States quarterback this year?
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They think it's gonna be Kyle McCord. There's another guy, true freshman
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that could challenge him. Um, Penn State's getting the true freshman and Drew
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drew Aler taking over for Sean Clifford who's been there for twelve years. Jeff
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Sims, I mean, I mean, yeah, looking at these QB lists,
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I don't know. I mean, you're probably right on that. Yeah,
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Kade mcnamar's at Iowa. M I guess I didn't think about that kind
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of a down your quarterbacks. Hutson card might actually be better than you think.
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I mean, he had that one good game where he was novel.
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I mean, I think Minnesota's quarterback is gonna be that. I mean,
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for a runner standpoint the eighthan Kali Amachus, which he just destroyed us too,
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which is why I remember that. Here's my thing on Minnesota. That's
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why I'm so freaking low water or think they're gonna kill us. The last
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time we went up there, we just got destroyed. And I just I
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just don't have good vibes ever with with Minnesota. I just feel like we're
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gonna get killed every time we play him. I don't have that vibe.
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You know, I know you don't. I just I just do. I
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just it is what it is Number six for me. Do I want to
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change it now? I'll put Colorado there. Oh, I wanted to put
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them higher, because I do. It's it is if we lose the Colorado
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or play bad if you question the entire Colorado is from Colorado was worse than
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this last year. They've been worse fresh for the last several years. And
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they tore it down to the studs and and and Colorado may have been the
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worst, like not power five team, but worst college football team last year
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or one last year. And I don't think this is even just the Nebraska
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thing. It's from a national land scheme of Colorado. They played TCU in
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week one and they play US in week two. If they can show that
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they are able to do what they're doing and it works, it's the whole
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college football country going, what the hell are we? Like? Are we
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all thinking about recruiting in the wrong way and the process of building a right
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culture? And maybe don knows how to get to these kids. Maybe we
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could have hired Dan instead of rule right. And I don't I have it
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at six because I don't think that's gonna happen. And I do think we're
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gonna go to Colorado and I think we're gonna beat them and it's gonna be
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fine. And looking at the grand scheme of things, everyone's like, yeah,
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Nebraska, should it be Colorado? Let's move on. But if we
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lose this game, there's a lot of really really bad implications from it.
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But that's why I have it at six. Also is they also if we
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lose this game too. I think it tells us that we have a long
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ways to go, because if we lose this game, we also probably lose
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Minnesota. We're O and two. It tells us whoa like it's gonna take
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a while. I haven't had at four, but similar reasons. I have
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it a little bit higher, just because it is Colorado, and like I
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said, they tore it down. They were a worse way worse posh than
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we were in and they tore it down to the studs way more than we
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did. And we're paying our head coach a shit ton of money and we
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could have hired the same guy probably for less. And if they go in
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and beat him or we go down there, it's on the road a middlely,
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but Nebraska fans travel well to Colorado and we go down there and lose,
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Yeah, that's not good. I wanted to have it higher than four,
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to be honest, I had it higher than four before we started this
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podcast, but as we've been talking about moving stuff around, I had it
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at one. Whoa. And that's that's because that's this whole off season.
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It's been all about that game. That's all I've been hearing about Husker fans
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Colorado fans going to each other, and they both have hype prans going into
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the season. So and I don't think Nebraska's got to go in the card
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and beat him. They're not. They're not a very good team. I
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guess we'll see, though, I think, like you said, they'll be
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it'll probably be eighty percent Husker fans that stadium. There'll be a lot,
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I know, be un brought in a lot of new Colorado fans. I
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like this, Dak, what was your number two? And we said that
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one yet or not? I'm Minnesota. Yeah, So I kind of like
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this a lot because it's giving us a very different spectrum of what importance means.
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Dak's coming at it from a very outside national perspective, and I would
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not disagree with you one bit that those games are one and two for several
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reasons. I think I'm coming in from a very much can we make this
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rule thing work to where like I could give a shit less about Minnesota and
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how that game goes because it's first game, there's gonna be tons of kinks
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and screws that we got to work out. So it's in Austin. I
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think's in the middle somewhere, right, So it's kind of fun just to
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see where all these are playing, because I would not disagree with Dak one
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bit like that Colorado game. It's the most hyped game, I mean,
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even for the casual Husker fan. That's all that's all we're gonna care about
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is winning that game. But it's very important. Okay, Number five I
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have a combination of this is my four and five Northern Illinois Louisiana Tech.
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I haven't kind of lumped in together. And it's for the very similar reason
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of Colorado. Like if we lose these games like they like, we are
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really like if we start owing four, owing five, then the Michigan I
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mean, well, I know we just did it with Roston not too long
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ago, but where are we as a program if we can't be Northern Illinois
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in law Tech with the talent that we have. I mean, that tells
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you we have nothing. Sunday Cumbees Louisiana Tech coach. He's in his second
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year. Thomas Hammock is that Northern Illinois. He's probably gonna get fired.
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Things that turn around. So because they've been horrible the past few years when
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they used to be decent. So these are two games that are like must
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must wins and very important. Even if you can squeak out of thirty eight
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to thirty one to win against these teams, but you have to win these
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games like they are very very important, So I have him fairly high here
28:57
and not towards the bottom. Now, if we were a typical seven,
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five, eight and four win team, then they're probably gonna they'd probably be
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down at eleven or twelve because yep, chuck them up as wins and buba.
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But that's not where we're at right now. We have to win these
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two games, like these are two wins we must win. So I have
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them at four and five. Yeah, I had. I have Louisiana Tech
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Is twelve and then Norman ill Know. I had at seven just because it's
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good normally Illinois your first home game, okay, okay, any you might
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be win list then too. There's a shot, yep, so they could
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you if you win that game, win List. You've got to win that
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game. You cannot throw them through. And I get the higher ranking for
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that too, because it's it's rules first home game. No matter what the
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record is in the first year, what we do in the first two games,
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it's important. I haven't. I mean, I'm very similar to find
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the thought. I have Northern Illinois five and then Louisiana a Tech nine just
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because it's higher than the eleven. Because I do think you have to win
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those games. The Northern Illinois is the first home game for rule and you
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have to at least win one of them. You can't lose both of them.
30:08
And if Northern Illinois thinks worse than amazi An a tech, hey my
30:15
numbers in the tech game, I don't care about one bit right now.
30:18
I mean we will if we lose. Yeah, number three, same line
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of thinking. So my three, four, five, and six are all
30:30
similar wavelength of These are games we should win, but if we don't,
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they're going to be very bad losses and going to set us back. I
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have Northwestern at three as most important. We guys, we have to beat
30:44
Northwestern. We destroyed them last year. The reason why they've been competitive with
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Nebraska over the past few years is gone in Fitzgerald. They're bringing in a
30:56
transfer quarterback. They are a bad football team. We have to beat Porthwesterward.
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It is very important. I haven't been number three coming off a bye
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too, not to mention coming off a bye. I almost agree. I
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have I have them at number two. Not only is all that that they're
31:15
a bad team. We have to beat them. We're coming off of a
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bye. It's later in the season. Middle of the season. It's also
31:22
a Moorals one hundred year party. I mean, every freaking Husker is going
31:27
to be in that building. If we won't go in there, there's gonna
31:30
be so much hype, so much pomp and circumstances. We go in there
31:33
and Lane freaking he against the team that just fired their head coach and stripped
31:36
all of their players away, and holy smokes, that is gonna be the
31:41
saddest fan base. You're right, we have to win. Yeah, I
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had them at eleven. Whoa, I think I think that they they're gonna
31:59
be terrible. That's that's pretty much all my take on Earth Westerns right there.
32:04
They suck. Jack, I like, I like your takes too,
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just putting these bad teams to the bottom, Like you're not excited for him
32:09
because Nebraska should win. But I can't wait till we get to October twenty
32:15
second and we just lost the Northwestern and we have to talk about that on
32:19
this podcast. It's one hundredth anniversary of Memorial I mean, every freaking Husker
32:25
is gonna be there a gain or what? Yeah, yeah, all right.
32:34
My number two is at Wisconsin on the eighteenth. Not necessarily saying that
32:40
we need to win the game. But Wisconsin is changing their MBO now,
32:45
we don't know to what extent. I think the media is blowing out of
32:49
proportion and saying that they're gonna just start slinging it around and they're going to
32:52
do a lot more of that. But they still have Braylon Allen. They
32:55
brought him Tanner Mordecai from SMU, who is no to be a good passer.
33:00
They got a new opposite coordinator from North Carolina, Luke Fickle's first year
33:05
as a head coach. We cannot in this game just get destroyed by a
33:12
completely different Wisconsin team Like that can't happen. And it's very important too because
33:16
it is late in the year and we should be seeing something. I mean,
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no matter what our record is, whether it's four and six right now,
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we need two wins to get to a bowl game or hell, even
33:28
if we're seven and five, or even if we're three and six, like,
33:31
we need to show something in this game that we have progress. And
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that goes into my number one I'm just going to combine it here too,
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because I have Iowa's number one game, who we beat last year on the
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road and last game of the year. It could be for bowl eligibility.
33:55
There's a lot on the line here our last two games. And can you
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imagine if we are just picture of this, We're five and six. We
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need to beat Iowa to go to a bowl game. We lose, even
34:09
on a heartbreaker, and now we had to sit through the entire offseason on
34:14
that loss. Five and seven didn't make a bowl game. We beat him
34:16
last year. On top of that, Iowa's offensive coordinator Brian Ferrens, Like,
34:23
we could get Iowa, we could get Kirk Ferrens fired, like,
34:27
because I don't know if he's gonna fire his son as the OC and him
34:30
not league or resign. But he's got a quote of this year if so
34:34
many points per game. So Wisconsin to Iowa one on my list. Where
34:40
do you guys got him? I have Wisconsin at six. Now after you're
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an e tire BUYE. I wish I would put that up higher, just
34:51
because it's it's a battle of first year coaches. It is. I think
34:55
I think that's that'll be fun to watch see see which teams look in the
35:00
right direction, I guess. And then Iowa. I had it three.
35:07
Oh, just just because it's a always a big game. I guess it's
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your biggest rival. You just beat them, so they're gonna want to get
35:15
revenge, and I just please beat Iowa. I don't. I can't stand
35:22
to watch that offense. When games awesome. You gotta take your yellow sweatshirt
35:25
off that you're to wear it right now. It's more of a mustard.
35:30
You know, it's not the sharp yellow, so it's more of a corn
35:35
color. I'd like to say, um though, I agree with that guy
35:38
had Iowa third. I tossed around having them higher a rivalry game, you're
35:44
rights the last game of the year. You want to see progress. But
35:45
I kind of bumped it down a little bit because they are Iowa. So
35:51
it's like they're also gonna be a good team and if we lose to they
35:55
well I shouldn't say they're going to They have the potential to be a really
35:59
good team, as they do every year. So I bumped it down,
36:04
and then I Wisconsin in the middle of them at seven, just because I
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think Wisconsin is in a better spot last year. It's on the road,
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and I don't think at that point in that, you know, outside of
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I probably would have put it higher head even think about Bowl eligibility, that'd
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be the only thing I'd probably bump it up for. Yeah, I think
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the last three or four games, bowl eligibility hopefully will be up question at
36:30
that point. We haven't been there in the past few years, so maybe
36:34
we'll see that happen. Last stops here. The rest of the Big Ten
36:40
four teams, we have not mentioned Indiana, nothing really to talk about.
36:45
Their ruggers. Penn State and you have Penn State. I mean, both
36:52
good teams. Both those are probably two of the top three teams in the
36:55
Big Ten. Penn State in Ohio State State. I think Penn State's the
37:01
sleeper team. I like them to play in the conference title. I think
37:07
they go one and one against Ohio State and Michigan. I think they win
37:09
the rest of their conference games. I think their defense is one of,
37:14
if not the best, in the country, and I think we're going to
37:16
see something very different with their new quarterback, who I've heard a lot of
37:21
good things on over Sean Clifford. I think Sean Clifford was really holding them
37:27
back and they just couldn't get rid of them. So they're bringing in this
37:30
Drawller, who I've heard a lot of good things on. I think they're
37:32
gonna be really good this year and potentially even making a playoff run. I
37:36
think Ohio State Michigan will be right there too, but I do see Penn
37:40
State potentially being the team coming out of the Big Ten of the playoffs.
37:45
Well, I think I think ending has to be better than Cliff or he
37:50
was. He was garbage. He was holding them back. But yeah,
37:57
I think they're gonna be really good. I can't wait to see our House
38:00
States new quarterbacks. He does is it Marvin Harrison, that wide receiver.
38:05
Yeah, Harrison's back, He's He's probably the best white you're in nation.
38:08
Yep, they have one of the best recruiting corps. And then Trevion Henderson's
38:13
back at running back for him too. M M yeah. I think I
38:19
think either of those two who have a shot in the playoffs. And where
38:24
do you think Michigan's at? Then I think, well, no, I
38:31
take that back, because I had Michigan in the playoffs in their mind.
38:35
Just forget forget what I said there. Now you can get two Big Ten
38:40
teams. You can. I'd be shocked, but you could. You gotta
38:45
like you gotta basically split them if you're because I see I see Michigan beating
38:52
Ohio State and beating Penn State. So the other two are gonna split,
38:57
I think, H yeah, you've Michigan it going undefeated. Yep. All
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right, we will be back on Wednesday. The preview. The Husker offense
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