Blue By Ninety - Blue By 90: RUN THE DAMN BALL

Episode Date: October 16, 2022

The boys are hyped. Michigan should be top 2 with Vols, Dono and blake are frontrunners for the heisman, O-line will repeat as Joe Moore award winners and Jesse Minter is a GOD. Crack a cold one and enjoy the show.

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The three-pointer by Jordan Poole! Down the sideline! Peebles-Jones! Touchdown, Wolverines! All right, welcome back to Blue by 90. I'm Justin, joined by Jack and Kalen, as always. It is Sunday, October 16th, and Michigan is pretty fucking good. Sunday fun day.

Undefeated. Undefeated. 7-0, baby. 7-0. Let's go. Who's still undefeated in the Big Ten? Ohio State and Michigan? I believe that's it. That's it. Who's still undefeated in the Big Ten? Ohio State and Michigan? I believe that's it.

That's it. Sounds right. Because Illinois – Illinois beat Minnesota. But they lost previously. Right. So, yeah, it's Michigan and Penn State. Nice.

There you go. Which, to me, like – I mean, at this point, it's Ohio State and Michigan, like, in the whole conference. The West is irrelevant. Oh, yeah. 100%. And now, this is classic because, I don't know,

do you say that Penn State are frauds now or is Michigan really good? Because I know that everybody else out there is just going to be like, oh, they're frauds. Michigan is still very average. Yeah. Dude, we still haven't even played anybody yet. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, was it a big game?

Did Michigan win? Then their opponent was a fraud. Well, I love that fucking, like, Penn State, what? They came into the game, like, what, out loud, 80 yards rushing per game, up 400 something yeah and then they averaged there was like it was like all these like numbers that they were doing really well at and michigan just like exploited them in every part of it literally every single one yeah i mean they were supposed to be a better defense than like Iowa, right? Yeah, statistically they were better.

But we just – and, okay, this is so funny because all week long, I don't know if you guys hopped in or were part of the Twitter spaces that I was in on the Blue by 90 account on Thursday and Friday night, but these Penn State fans were just talking outrageously about their secondary. They were just like, it's the best secondary we've ever had, like, of all time. We're, you know, the best secondary in the Big Ten by far, best secondary in the nation. And now I'm just like, you know what? Hey, I got to give it up to you guys.

You guys got a great secondary. The best secondary in the Big Ten for sure. It's just too bad that your run defense sucks ass. It's god awful. God awful. So, oh, my God. It was cracking me up. I was just like, bro, they were talking about, like, you know,

they're like, well, we got to let J.J. beat us. If J.J.'s got to beat us, we can't let Blake Corham beat us. And I was like, well, I feel like Blake Corham himself beat you. That had to be the best running back performance between two Michigan running backs since, what, Minnesota in 08? Or not 08, 18, with Chris Evans and Kron Higdon? Yeah. Oh, my God.

Or, like, the Notre Dame game um the nut the rain game too yeah yeah it was pretty incredible but i mean i don't know that we've put up over 400 rushing yards in a long time have we it might have been that 18 game because uh chris evans i think had like 192 and cron had like 205 or something yeah but it was unbelievable i didn't love that they had jj running with nine minutes left in the fourth up by two scores didn't love that that seemed unnecessary yeah a little bit that seemed unnecessary and it also what was concerning to me was it wasn't it didn't seem like it was an rpo it they looked like for sure yeah so um that's where i was like i don't know man it uh yeah i'll tell you what you're i know you're a big defensive guy

ro loves defense great great defensive game great. Dude, our defense is fucking sick. Fucking awesome. And they were getting pressure on, like, Jesse Minter. This might be a hot take. Is he better than Mike McDonald? Dude, his second half adjustments have been incredible. Well, just the disguises that they put the defense in. I mean, they're only rushing four guys and get pressure.

Like, did we blitz at all yesterday? Not much. Like, not a ton, though. But they were getting a ton of pressure just off four guys rushing. Just from disguising it and bringing guys up. And, I mean, it was a beautifully coordinated defensive game. And, I mean, to get offensive line, defensive line,

played incredible yesterday. Beautiful thing to see. And they were really only in the game because there were like a couple fluky plays it was like three plays they had like three big plays they had the the you know the one i i'll say this the pass down the right side was a dime by clifford oh that was a dot that was beautiful and dj turner actually played it really well it was just so well thrown he just threw it perfectly and then the clifford um you know run like incredible it was just a bad assignment like i think we over over pursued you know to the uh running back to the rpo and so that that play and then the pick six which was like you know it bounced off of three guys heads and then right bad decision by j was like it bounced off of three guys' heads.

And then bad decision by JJ. He's got to get it over that guy. But still, outside of those three plays, it was like they didn't do anything. Well, when you think about the redstone stops that Penn State had too that seldom field goals. It should have been 56-10, honestly. Michigan didn't punt no brad other than his immaculate holds he had all day yeah oh my god i it was incredible i i was i was not expecting that i don't know about you guys but i was absolutely not expecting to see that dude i remember talking to guys before the game.

I was like, this is the first game all season I've really been nervous for. Like maybe Iowa a little bit, but like Penn State, I was like, okay, I'm fucking nervous for this game. It's a competition. Blow them out. And our guy Jake Moody with the tackle. Did you see that? Dude, I was telling Ro about that.

Like I was watching the beginning of the third quarter, and Singleton or whatever his name was fumbled the kickoff, and then you see Moody come out of nowhere. Out of nowhere. Lays him out and then just flexes on him. Just flexes on him. That's incredible. That was awesome.

Yeah, the flex was unreal. Oh, man. And he came out, I think, after the fact and said, like, yeah, I haven't hit anybody at Michigan. So he's been waiting for that his whole career. Waiting for this moment. Just tee off on this guy. I love it.

Yeah, that was awesome. But, you know, so a couple stats that I pulled about our defense against this Penn State offense. You know, I put a bunch out on Twitter, but the ones that I didn't put out there yet, Michigan versus Penn State. So out of 51 plays that Penn State ran on offense, they had only six plays that went for more than 10 yards 11 that was it and then it was only like 16 of the 51 went for five yards or more like that is i mean that's still 31 i think it was

of plays that went for five yards or more. I mean, that is insanity to me. I remember seeing a stat, too, that I think it was like 56 of 70 of Michigan's plays were in Penn State territory. Does that sound right? I think I saw that on the broadcast. It definitely seemed like that. I mean, the time of possession was insane. that sound right i think i saw that on the broadcast it definitely seemed like that i mean the time of possession was insane we we used the entire first quarter on our first drive

or those first two drives i think it was um and yeah like i said like two-thirds of the game yeah they they didn't have a chance to score there's they had no i mean they obviously had the the defensive score um but if they don't have that it's an even bigger ass whooping right right so yeah man i was i mean it was total domination absolutely total domination uh and for you know i think what was the what was the stat i put up about the the rush defense um for penn state too so they had i think it was though they allowed 80 yards per game going into it and there's like 400 to michigan they they also allowed 0.6 touchdowns per game rushing when we put up four oh yeah that's what the other one was they had had like four total i think uh rushing tds allowed for the first five

games and we put up four in one game and then our you know okay here's the one thing i want to talk about too is jj because obviously j.'s not the star of this game. You know, his stat line was nothing crazy. Still 70% completion percentage. Right. 70%. So, it's like, obviously, he had a couple bad decisions. You know, we have to stop just, like, as you're getting sacked,

throwing it into the middle of nowhere. I mean, thank God that Blake Corham was there. What in the – Oh, that was freshman J.J. coming out a lot. But that's who you get. That's who you get with J.J., right? You got to, you know – You can't hate on it when, you know,

that kind of comes with his territory and his playmaking, right? He also rolled out to the right and threw like a solid pass who was it cornelius johnson oh my god that was a dot i think it was a dime yeah on the run yeah i love seeing jj roll out and throw man i mean he's so dangerous when he gets out of the pocket because he can either run or he can throw it on a dot on the run or like he might be more accurate on the run than he is standing in the pocket. I know myself, also an elite quarterback, when I used to play flag

football and two-hand touch and stuff, I'm way more accurate on the run. JJ and I have that in common. Very athletic, good-looking human beings. Same haircut. Same haircut, dude.

It's the bald cap. i've got beautiful hair oh that was good that was good oh yeah no i i mean going back to jj like on a real note like i think if that's the worst that J.J. McCarthy is going to play, then I am incredibly happy with that. Yeah, I agree. And it wasn't really that he played bad, I didn't think. We just didn't need to use him. Right, yeah. They never threw the ball downfield outside of that Cornelius throw. Well, I would be shocked any time that Don or blake didn't run for five plus yards when

they were getting the ball like that's what it seems like they were just like the penn state d line just couldn't stop michigan's running attack until we got into the red zone which was really annoying and then we were just continually running it up the gut that was where that was like that would be my only criticism of the day was like, hey, we know that they're going to stack the box when we get into the red zone. They've done this all year long and been really good at it, at stopping guys in the red zone.

Like, let's open it up and throw the ball because we really didn't throw the ball at all once we got into the red zone. Yeah, I was pretty – I mean, I'll be honest. I was pretty toasty during the entire game. I actually ended up, like, sleeping pretty much the rest of the day once I got home. And it was, like, 1 in the morning. I'm like, I need to watch this game.

So I watched the first half, like, at 1 a.m., fell asleep for the third quarter. That's when I was watching it before we started recording and then fourth quarter. I watched a little bit of it, but it was – I mean, I'm just blown away by these running backs, man. Blown away. Absolutely. O-line crushed it.

Defense looked really, really good. I'm full hype train. Michigan should be number one in the country right now. That's where I'm at. That's where I'm at. Talk about a hot take. I i mean do you guys disagree blake was like a fucking pinball man like he literally he was bouncing off of guys like one of my favorite one of my favorite plays of of the day was i think blake got stopped a little bit and then r Ryan Hayes literally grabbed him and just threw him forward and he got another five

yards. Also, Joel did the same thing on that, uh, like one yard touchdown run that he had where he got stopped at like the line of scrimmage. Joel just like laid on him. Essentially it was like,

we're going to go in here now. He surfed the end zone. Yeah, it was amazing. Um, no, I like credit for sure goes to the old line because there were some holes that were you could drive a fucking truck through it was incredible

um like they they just bullied that d line and they really did outside of just a couple pass uh dropbacks they kept jj in good shape all day long too. It was just that we, you know, there was no need to throw the ball downfield. So they never, you know, they never like had to hold the ball for a while. But so going back to the O-line, so O-line did incredible. To your point, Kalen, Blake, like I don't know how many times where he should have been stopped and got an extra three, four, five, six, seven yards, whatever it was. It was like, he was, he was a

man on a mission yesterday. Oh, I loved it. Loved every second of it. And Donna just looked like Jack always says he looks so smooth. And I don't know what it is about him. Like a gazelle. Yeah. If, if it wasn't for Blake quum being Michigan's go-to guy, Donovan Edwards would be leading the Heisman race right now. That's not even a hot take. I mean, Donovan Edwards had a better game than Blake did yesterday. You are drinking the juice, and I freaking love it right now. I'm big time in it.

I'm big time in it right now. I love it. We're number one team in the country, heisman contenders three three if we need to throw the ball don't even get me started i'm like samer still defensive heisman let's go let's go baby i'm all in i'm all i absolutely love it no place for me to be but it'll be so fun over the next two weeks. I'm in. I'm in for the next two weeks, man. Listen.

Let's wait to talk about the next couple weeks here because I got a lot to say. We're going to have too much. We need to save our content a little bit. We're going to have an extra week without football. Exactly. No, I mean, what Blakeake corm and donovan edwards did yesterday was pretty unreal um and i think like i i had a couple people be like uh you know all they had was two big runs and i was like okay take away those two big runs they still ran for 300 yards right you know like it was it was a ridiculous uh ridiculous game and yeah i mean

sean clifford i need to pull the stats about sean clifford versus michigan because his stats cannot be good i think they were good coming into this game i mean they weren't bad coming into this game he's two and two against michigan i know but year, like, A, half of it was because of Saquon Barkley. Was Saquon – Saquon wasn't there, though, with Clifford, I thought. I'm pretty sure he was. No, Miles Sanders. Miles Sanders was there with Saquon. Because I think Trace and Saquon were in the same draft.

Oh, you might be right. But even Miles Sanders. I mean, Miles Sanders – actually, I saw another stat during the broadcast i think trace and saquon were in the same draft oh you might be right but even miles sanders i mean miles sanders i actually saw another stat during the broadcast when saquon's leading total yardage in the nfl and miles sanders is third and rushing in the nfl right now they have they've had some good uh damn good running backs which that's the other thing is coming into this game penn state's two running backs were just absolute studs all year long, and we made them look like they were nothing. Made them look like freshmen.

They had zero impact on the game, essentially. Yeah. I'm pretty sure they both had less than 50 yards. Yeah. And poor – I mean, poor – I want to say less than singleton. I don't really know. I might be butchering it. They had actually had a really nice play design

where I think they faked the handoff, did like a play-action type thing, and then Clifford dropped back and threw it to the running back wide open, right in his fucking hands, and he just dropped it. I mean, it probably would have gone for a touchdown. Nick Singleton and Katron Allen combined

for 35 yards total rushing. Holy shit. Just stopped. Brick wall, dude. Nick Singleton, six rushes for 19 yards. Katron Allen, six rushes for 16 yards.

Jesus. They really didn't even utilize them. Like, they didn't have the time. Well, I mean... Did we win the bowl 12 times? I mean, Clifford had six runs himself, I guess. They had two other running backs that had three rushes. I mean, well, no.

One other running back that had three rushes. I mean, well, no. One other running back that had one rush, and then the backup quarterback had technically two rushes, which I think were the exact same. So Blake Corum had a better game than the entire run game for Penn State. Oh, by a mile. All right. So two things. We're talking about the running backs two things that stand out to me is when uh quorum got absolutely rocked by that guy kept his balance and got another like

five ten yards like i his balance is insane how how did he how is that physically possible like he's just such a low center of gravity, and his legs are like – his workout routine must be just like insane. Somebody on Twitter said that he squats 315 25 times. What? He was still ready to go for more. But then also, Dono's run where he went and he cut to the left, then cut back to the right, and there's a tackler trying to get him, and he just puts his hand down and keeps running. Oh god those are my two favorite plays of the day that was beautiful

um he just he just did a little hop skip over him and like jump cut type of thing and he was gone um man uh but they're they they were beautiful and you want to know what I love, too? Blake really doesn't show emotion a whole lot, but after his long run, he was fired up. And he was fired up for a while. You could watch him go on the sideline, and he was yelling at the offensive lineman and doing the whole thing. There was some personal shit that went on in this game.

I mean, let's talk about the halftime, like scuffle, whatever you want to call it in the, in the tunnel. Yeah. What, what happened? I don't know. There wasn't really great video of it, except for the fact that like teams were just like, it was basically Michigan, Ohio state last year where they State last year where both teams go into the tunnel kind of at the same time, obviously, and Michigan was behind Penn State.

Everyone's John. They have to be held back, the whole thing. I don't know if it was BTN or someone else who tweeted out. They were like, hey, PSA, don't fight with Michigan in the tunnel because it doesn't end well for you in the second half. Funny thought, and I might be wrong on the score here, but I think it was the same score going into half as it was against Ohio State.

Michigan was down 14-13. It was close, yeah. I'm going to look that up because I think that – I think we were up 16-14. We kicked a field goal. No, we were down, dude. I swear we were down. No, you might be right. You might be right. We kicked a field goal. No, we were down, dude. I swear we were down. No, you might be right.

You might be right. We kicked a field goal right before the half. Yeah, I think it was Fox College Football on Twitter. We did that graphic out. See if I can track it down. All right. Searching anything on ESPN is just stupid. There we go.

Michigan. Penn State. It's also just a wild day for college football. Halftime, it was 16-14. Okay, I'm wrong. All right. Well, I'm wrong. All right. Well, I'm proud of you just for... Thank God we found that information.

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they definitely had some little personal vendetta or just wanted some smoke here. I loved it. I loved it yeah the uh it was i mean it they the thing is that we didn't like we did not like pour it on by any means either like i i really do think if we wanted to like i know that we weren't going to throw the ball because their secondary is pretty damn good uh but if we wanted to like like i said it could have been 50 something if we really

wanted to but we eight o'clock all day long we had like multiple drives that were like there we go i love it okay yep i love it um yeah the uh we had multiple drives that were like nine ten minutes long yeah i mean michigan could have scored 90 if they wanted to they could have could have should have could have should have would have um does it concern you though like i know that's like jim harbaugh's favorite type of football to play. I understand that. But I think we've seen it before with Michigan where it's like, all right, this is great when we're winning,

but what happens when you have to play from behind type of thing? Then I assume they would be doing something different. Great assumption. We haven't seen much of that this year they were behind in what the second quarter and they didn't like flinch that's true and i mean the run game was working you know i know i feel like i remember beginning the season or we talked about it at some point but it was like if the runs game's working just keep doing it keep running the damn ball yeah that's right run the damn ball

shirts back up on the shop crewnecks hoodies tees give us some money so we can pay our bills um please my rent is due i have two rents now my wife left me jesus, dude. Yeah, that's tough. Tough life you live. Tough life. Yeah. So, yeah, the – oh, let's talk about Tennessee Bama. I need to talk about Tennessee Bama. Go Vols, baby. Go Vols.

Wow. What a game. All right. First off, I do find it funny that, like, this is an all-time great game, but if that same game was – happened between, like, two Big 12 teams, we'd be like, trash defenses, it's a shit conference, blah, blah, blah. Oh, yeah. Classic Big 12.

Very true. Very, very true. Yeah. But that's what the SEC has kind of become now is, like, shootouts, right? I mean, we might show our stupidity here but i agree with you yeah what do you mean i mean somebody could pull up a stat and just be like no i see street still is the best defense but i but i'm with you i'm with you i think it feels like there's a lot more games especially with bama where the score is just running up, like high-scoring games back and forth. Yeah, it's definitely offensive, like big air raid kind of stuff going down.

I think back to those, like the 9-6 game. Was that LSU-Bama? LSU-Bama, yeah. Like those games, that was not that long ago. Yeah, that was 2016. That running back factory that they used to be, right? Bama, yeah. I think there was like a group of time.

They do have a – Trent Richardson. Yeah. Yeldon. Like all those guys. Yeah. Just back to back to back. TJ Yeldon, Ingram.

Ingram. Derrick Henry, obviously. Derrick Henry. Eddie Lacy. Remember Eddie lacy before he got fat bo scarborough dude like they literally just had running backs for days yeah they're printing these guys in a lab um and then the goal posts okay the scene awesome scene at tennessee was unreal that picture or the view from the blimp with the fireworks going off and the orange led lights was like that was next level it's so cool

like that's i would love to have that at the big house oh my god if we like last year if we did fireworks after beating ohio state like as the clock hits zero i would have got my pants yeah that would have gone nuts yeah that would be incredible but and then the obviously storming the field the uh the goalposts they literally just carried him out of the stadium straight to the street with the bars just like marching all the way into campus awesome there was a video i just saw of like the president was upstairs in the in the suite they're like how much is that gonna cost you he's like i do not care we will do this every single year if it means we win that's awesome yeah love that love it i mean that's that's the attitude you need to have and that's. Oh, yeah. We'll pay our 10K for goalposts or whatever they cost.

I have no idea. Yeah, pay that. Are you kidding me? It's an experience that nobody will ever forget. Right. Is this the end of Nick Saban? Hot take? Yeah.

This is like the same thing that everyone said for the past 10 years with him and Belichick. Obviously, Belichick is in a bad situation without Brady now. People said that about Belichick and Brady for literally a whole decade. I like Zappy, though. What a name. Bailey Zappy? I love

Bailey Zappy. WKU? Whatever their mascot is. The Red Blob or some shit? Hilltoppers? They're the Hilltoppers. That's awesome. But it's a Red Blob. One of. Hilltoppers. They're the Hilltoppers. Hilltoppers. That's awesome. But it's a Red Blob. One of the best mascots in all of college football. I love mascots that don't make any sense. That's my opinion.

I wish we had one. Yeah. We should for sure like have some like just yellow like puffball or something like that. That sounds awesome. That would be awesome. It would be like wearing a relatable ball with like a smiley face and you can see it go around the field people just like hitting it up back and forth like a squeeze ball like a stretch like a giant beach ball or

something i'll definitely need that but also i feel like it would be so simple to just get like a wolverine mascot outfit with a big like wolverine head like in stored jersey i don't just like do with every other mascot ever like i blows my mind that that just because don't do it i wonder what the reasoning is behind it i agree i have no idea i have no idea um i feel like we're like too far into it that like you know if it would have happened back in the day then it would have been okay but now we've gone too long without one. That would be such a big deal. And we know how Michigan fans are with, like, any type of change.

You know how big of a, like, backlash they got changing the end zones to blue? Like, imagine us. Well, that's what I'm saying, though. Fuck them. The people that are complaining about it, see ya. We don't want you anyway. Agreed. What if our mascot was just, like, an army of people dressed like Jim Harbaugh?

Oh, I love that. And they're just like kind of on the sideline. Harbaugh, she's my mascot. What if it was just like a, like just a pair of khakis? Like it was somebody that like their head like popped out of the zipper. Sure, listen, khakis. Pasted white guys just peeks through

you know that's what i might go i might go for uh halloween is just jim harbaugh's khakis it's like buy some like 6xl khakis that my head poked through the zipper that's incredible that's such a good idea oh my god i wear that to the msu game oh you guys still hang out with me that's the tailgate fit yeah oh shit halloween weekend you know oh my god oh shit um yeah all right let's uh what else what other game i mean there were a couple other good games okay wait all right should we just talk about msu for a second go for it mel tucker's clock management did you guys see the end of that game dude the only football game i watched yesterday was nothing because i only watched michigan at

one in the morning my cousin got us wasted at the tailgate we're just doing fireball shots and that's your fault it's my fault so all right here's what happened i'm trying to remember as well so we were watching it live though so their um msu is all right i gotta look it up now they won though right they won yeah they won despite like just terrible talker being an idiot yes um hold on you guys talk about something while i look this up okay all right i did i also watched um usc utah oh i wish i would have watched that and i was like i made it to what like halftime and i was like okay obviously it's like 11 30 p.m and i'm like falling asleep and then i looked this morning

and i was like utah won that game what the fuck happened they did i didn't even notice yeah well because i saw um well yeah so i saw the score and then i was scrolling twitter this morning i saw josh tweeted something like we're really about to have like a usc usc ucla like undefeated teams matchup and then i saw him reply to his own tweet he's like yeah i definitely jinxed that because the dogs came back and fucking won well like i turned the game on and they were like going into half and um and usc was at like their own 30 or something like that and they lined up in like a shotgun like with the the running back next to the qb and then the q or then the running back like ran out into space so it was just the qb back there and i was like why don't we do that we

should definitely have like five wide just jj back there slinging it downfield right and then love it with dono or something they call it dono it'd be beautiful and then caleb williams like threw a dime like way downfield and they ended up calling it back pass interference or something like that and then uh they ended up going back to the locker room but uh i was like damn what's the final score in that game it's pretty high scoring right it was like 42 to 40 or something yeah what was the final score 43 42 43 42 gotta love it man yeah plenty of good football on yesterday yesterday was a great day of football I loved it it was a perfect like mid October day too

I don't like it was cold in the morning obviously in Ann Arbor but it was beautiful I was in perfect shape during the game perfect football weather yes yeah when the sun was out I was like this is incredible yeah there were a couple times you'd go behind the clouds i bet oh you got a little shiver there

yeah a little cold but all right so i believe so what happened was i i can't remember if if they were um if they were tied up at this point or what, I believe they were. And, um, Thorne, like had, uh, had through a pass and completed it. And there's like 30 seconds on the clock or something like that.

And it's third down. And I think it was like 27 seconds on the clock and it's third down. They have one time out left. So like normally here you run it up the gut and then, you know, one more time real quick and then you take your last timeout and kick the field goal to win it, right? Except he takes the timeout before third down. So then they have zero timeouts left and, like, 27 seconds left.

And they ran one play and had to rush the kicking team out there without a time out. And then he misses the field goal. It was incredible. What an idiot. It was terrible. It was like one Oh one type shit. It was,

it was, I was shocked at what I was seeing. Thankfully for him, they, he got bailed out by Keon Coleman and Jaden Reed. But he was trying to lose the game. It was insane. You think he's betting against the team now? You think that's where he's at?

He's like, shit, man, we're just not playing well. I'm just going to bet this team to lose. Load up on the money I'm already getting yeah that would make sense could be i'm convinced that they have like just prepped for michigan for the past three weeks i'm convinced because they have i mean if i was them that's what i do because i'm still stage your season like i would still beat michigan that's 100 the case i listen i wouldn't i seriously would not doubt it i would not doubt it i'm with you they're just not a good football team though january is very very good still

yep um payton thorne is very average in my opinion uh keon coleman is a stud. I like Ken Coleman a lot. Yeah. But other than that, like, they just don't have much. Yeah. So, you know, we need to beat them by 100. I said it, I think, 100 times at this point, but, like, we need to seriously beat them in a worse fashion than we just beat Penn State. I hope so. I mean, the numbers line up to make you think that they will,

but that game's always, you know. You never know. You never know what to expect. I just can't leave literally any room for Michigan State fans to talk. I don't want them. Like, 2018, I believe it was. It was 18 or 16 when, like we went to msu and and then like ended up winning by what nine or something um or whatever it was 16 probably yeah um and then they're like the whole

like that was a it was a three and nine team for msu yeah and they're like you couldn't even beat us by double digits like i do not want any of that shit happening it needs to be like we beat them by four scores i also love it though that that's like some sort of like you know comeback like yeah we lost but you only beat us by nine yeah exactly yeah i was like okay cool like i don't give a shit about you or your team yeah you just paid your coach 95 million i wanted to be like you just paid you just paid your your coach 95 million i want it to be like you just paid your your coach 95 million to like lose to us by single digits yeah you're sick bro that's that's legit so um all right what else happened yesterday

don't ask me god you're fucking useless honestly georgia like rolled over vanderbilt 55-0 as they should yeah uh illinois beat minnesota and minnesota was i thought they were going to be the team in the west and they stink now they still could be i mean what that's their only loss of the season, right? No. No? Second loss. I believe, right?

Who else did they lose to? Hold on. They lost to Purdue. Purdue and Illinois, yeah. Okay. Dude, Illinois is legit. Apparently, Brett Bieleman's got them going back in the Big Ten where he thrives

how how happy do you think that brett bielma is that he was the one that made wisconsin fire paul christ what do you mean he at illinois beat wisconsin last week or whatever oh and then they fired him after that? They fired Paul Chris immediately. And he's probably just like, should have never fucking fired me. Did they fire Bielema? I thought he left for Arkansas. You might be right, actually. Yeah, I just thought he left for Arkansas.

But I'm sure Nebraska's fucking rolling in their grave about firing Pelini. They'd kill for nine and three nine and three nine and four is you know what sorry that's nebraska ever since 1990 like that's what you've been you know so man adrian martinez deserved to have bo pallini i agree it would have been a 10 they could have been a 10 11 team with edgar martinez man he was fucking legit isn't he tearing it up at k-state right now yeah i thought and the thing is with with nebraska is like dude you're in the west man all you got to do is go like nine and three wins that league like 90 of the time right like you don't even have to be good to go 9-3 in the West.

Oklahoma, after getting – Just went out. I feel bad for Kansas fans, man. That sucks, man. You were there at 5-0 and then two in a row and it's like – Two close games in a row. Two close games in a row and then you just like now lose all momentum. It sucks. It's tough.

Is Texas back, though, with Quinn Ewers? I hope so, man. College football is better when Texas is back. They still got a chance to win the Big 12, don't they? I mean, I got to assume so. I don't know who else would be up there. K-State, TCU. I think TCU might be up there.

I mean, I think Big 12 has got to still be pretty wide open. Yeah. Oklahoma State, TCU. TCU just beat Oklahoma State. But those two teams were, I think, at the top. Let's see. LSU beat Florida. dude florida as well just like is a team that looks like every year they're like all right this could be like a very legit team and then they come out and it's like ah we're not we're just we're gonna lose like bad football games. I mean, Big 12 right now looks like it's between TCU,

Kansas State, Texas, and OK State. Yeah. Dude, the QB at Florida is basically Joe Milton. Anthony Richardson? Yeah. He's sick, dude. He's like 6'5", 235. I watched him literally flick his wrist and throw it 25 yards okay so combination

three in the coaches poll and ap poll just dropped and michigan is four really i love it yep i'm good with that i uh i don't know i actually i i wouldn't have argued if you put Tennessee up there as number one. They've got by far the best win of the year, right, and they're undefeated. Like – I mean, Tennessee probably has the best win of the year. That's what I just said, no? Oh, I thought you were talking about Michigan.

No, no, no. I'm talking about Tennessee. I think – Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think Tennessee deserves to be number one right now. Tennessee number one, Michigan number two. Ohio State hasn't beat anybody. Georgia's pretty fucking good.

They still suck, though, too. It's the new year. We're not going to talk about the past, okay? We're talking about this season. Yeah, okay. Moving on. We're on to michigan state i do love blake horn i'm saying michigan state on the clock at the end of his uh like

interview that was awesome i do i do that um what do you okay last thing i want to touch on here is like just the state of michigan football michigan football is in such a good spot i now my dad told me this uh this stat john if the stat is wrong it's on you okay um but he said it was like the first time in 50 years that michigan has has been seven and oh and back to back. I saw that. Yeah. It was on like Fox. I think it was on the broadcast. They said that. Okay. I mean, that is,

I know that there's a lot of football left to be played, but I just feel like this program like is in just such an unreal spot. Remember when we all wanted Harbaugh gone? Like 18 months ago, you mean? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Well, idiots. I, you know what? We played a championship game today. We'd be playing Illinois. Really? God,

seriously. That's amazing. That's great. All right. I'm going to poop my pants. Yeah. Let's, let's,

let's be done. Wrap this up. Okay. Yeah. right, I'm going to poop my pants. Yeah, let's be done. Wrap this up. Okay. Yeah, I think Michigan's in a pretty fucking good spot right now. I'm pretty pumped about where this team and program is at. Drinking Kool-Aid, man. Drinking Kool-Aid. We'll head into the bye week.

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