Blue By Ninety - E91: POSITIVE VIBES ONLY

Episode Date: September 30, 2021

It's Wisconsin week. Jack apologizes to Cade, Michigan defense is STRONG, Jim Harbaugh is Ted Lasso, CFB week 5 preview, picks of the weekend and more. Crack a cold one and enjoy the show. 

This is the University of Michigan. Touchdown, Michigan! The Beats of Michigan! And they've caught extra pass. And it goes for the win! The three-pointer by Jordan Poole! Down the sideline! Peebles-John!

Touchdown, Wolverines! All right, welcome back to Blue by 90. I am Justin, joined by Jack and Kaylin. It is Wednesday night, September 29th. It's Wisconsin week, so looking at a 4-0 Michigan football team. And I think the funniest things I've seen on social media going through this week is that Wisconsin fans think that they have the worst team in the world and Michigan fans also think that they have the worst team in the world. We're just so fucking dramatic, man. It's awful.

It's like the fans on Twitter have been fighting about who, who, you know, thinks that they're going to lose by more basically. So I finally watched the, I was able to watch the full first half of the Michigan game. I didn't even watch the second half because positive vibes only. That's all. Love that. Love that. Cade is still on track to win the Heisman.

I take back anything I said about putting JJ in next week. Cade did really, really, really well in that first half last week. I feel like we didn't talk about that enough when we recorded on Sunday. That one touchdown pass that he missed to Schoonmaker schoonmaker

like tripped off the line of scrimmage so that could it's almost like i said this on sunday but you were paying attention i was so foggy yeah my brain wasn't working i just wanted to get that out there right away all right positive vibes only here let's let's everybody chill the fuck out i love that i love that um no i mean i go and let's talk about that a little bit more before we go into what you know Wisconsin looks like I mean I think that there are people out there that are like commenting on the umich football instagram put jj in like pictures it's like dude fuck off I mean I I'm sorry I I't, I don't know. I, I'm not going to, first of all, like I said on set on Sunday,

like it is a bad play to put in your freshman quarterback in for the first time ever in like a true situation, not garbage time situation on the road at Wisconsin against a team that is still probably the best front seven, like in the big 10. And so if, you know, if not top two, so like, I don't know, I just don't think you should overreact enough to say, Oh, Cade has one bad half.

Cade back in here still has not turned the ball over in a Michigan football uniform. No. In his career. So I'm not ready to jump ship like some crazy people are. It's almost like, you know, it's funny because they're like, oh, he had a bad half of football. We're ready to jump ship. It's like, it's almost like we're a uh qb at wisconsin who had a not a

great game you know hey yeah i mean that's what their fans are saying for sure um but i don't know to be honest i don't even know who their like backup is uh i don't think they have one i don't well i definitely know that they don't have some five-star freshmen sitting there um i mean jack cone was the would have been their backup and he just beat him at notre dame right so i don't i don't know who their second string is but i mean i think everybody in the world was riding graham mertz uh you know going into going into the season after after what he did in the last five games last year. Sorry, the first five games last year when they were like – that first game he threw five touchdowns, no interceptions.

I mean, I know it's COVID, so I think you just, like, chalk it up to who knows what the hell happened there. But, I mean, he looked very legit. This was, like, one of the first times ever they had a quarterback that can move a little bit too. So it was almost like, holy shit, Wisconsin's going to start moving the ball differently than running. And they've tried to do that this year but haven't been able to.

One touchdown to six picks does not help you out there. Jason Wolfe is a redshirt junior. That's their backup, I guess. I wonder if he's gotten any playing time. I don't think so. He didn't play against Notre Dame, even though Mertz had four interceptions. So I doubt that if he was any good at all, I assume that he would have seen some time in that game.

You know, I know. He got three touches against Eastern Michigan. Oh, well, well. Eagles. Go Eagles. No, I mean, the thing is that I think that this offense, I am concerned about the offense a little bit, but I'm more concerned about what we're doing with the offense

rather than what the offense, you know, the players and the abilities of these guys. Do you guys agree with that? It's more so, you're saying it's more so on Gattis than that's the talent that he's got. Yeah, the capability is there. Yeah, I just, I mean, at some point, you do have to open it up. And I understand not, quote unquote, having to yet, you know, that they've been able to get away with it.

So it got a little scary at Rutgers second half I I mean yeah that's like when you would have wanted him to be able to say all right let's open it up we need to do that yeah you know but I don't know I I'm in the boat that I've I think that we're gonna look back at this Wisconsin game and look back at this Rutgers game and say, thank God that happened in the second half of Rutgers so that it like was a shock factor for Gattis and this team and this offense that they are going to have to do something like that. Because if all that were to happen in the first half of against Wisconsin, and it still may, but then it's like oh shit now what do we do you know hopefully they make an adjustment in the second half yeah we'll see we'll see um but yeah

going going to Wisconsin too I mean I think that people I I mean, specifically Wisconsin fans, are all down on this team. I still, my bet is that this team bounces back and has, you know, I know they're 1-2, but I bet you they have an 8-4 year. They're going to figure something out on offense, and they have too good of a defense to not figure it out. They've only allowed an average of 25 rush yards a game that's insanity that's wild including what's the i mean the crazy stat against notre dame right what do you say it was three rushers three rushing yards against notre dame notre dame score

41 points three rushing yards. That is unreal. And, I mean, only 230 pass yards. Yeah, nothing wild. 242 total yards, and you score 41 points and lose by, you know, what, 30-something or close to 30. So it's four picks will do to you, right? Four picks and a kickoff return i think yeah yeah um so that just goes to show that you know jim harbaugh and josh gaddis you

can't show up and be like well we're gonna run the ball all day 100 i mean you like this is where I think you have – I'm waiting for Josh Gaddis to – and Jim Harbaugh, too, to step in as well and say, hey, our game plan – earlier this year against Washington, right, they said our game plan against Washington was to run the ball because that's what we saw. They had their safeties back. They were daring us, you know, blah, blah, blah. We did it. We just ran the ball, and they were going to do it until they stop us. So now I'm waiting for them to say what happens when it's the other way around,

right? When it's, Hey, they're daring us to throw the ball. They, you know, and we needed, we need to game plan for this specific opponent well game plan for Washington and also game plan for Wisconsin I don't want to see on Saturday that you had the same game plan for Wisconsin as you did Washington right or something similar right keep talking keep talking that was a good point I feel like you were going on a rant there I mean I've already gone on five rants we've been on this podcast for five minutes so rant a minute here yeah exactly no I mean I I think that that's like that's what I I think we're waiting for Josh Gaddis to have that breakthrough game where you see him specifically game plan for a defense and beat them

because of what he put hit because of the position that he put his players in rather than something just kind of works you know and we overpower a team that's an inferior opponent um this could be this game i think for that yeah use i mean utilize your strengths and attack the other team's weaknesses that's what that's all you want to see i mean obviously this like we talked about this defense is pretty tough so this may not be the game for him to do it but if we see something you know to encourage the michigan fan base and help michigan get a w i mean that'd be great i just i think it'll be tough for him to do it this game. Yeah, I think kind of winning this game, honestly,

it comes with getting pressure on Graham Mertz. We've seen him, you know, dance around in the pocket in terms of, you know, when pressure's in his face, he doesn't make the greatest decisions. So I think, you know, one of the his face he doesn't make the greatest decisions so i think you know one of the first things we need to do is get pressure on him so that he continues to make bad decisions hey man shout out uh luke siberts or sieverts on uh instagram he was saying jimon green i think he called for a pick six we can get some pressure on grand mertz and will jimon green

pick six or somebody that'd be awesome. There we go. Now we're talking. Now we're talking. Yeah. I think for Mike McDonald on the defensive side as well. I think it's the, it's the same thing where he's been Ben,

but don't break and not sending pressure. But in this situation where you've got a quarterback that is on his heels, not feeling comfortable, you know, making mistakes, do you adjust and start sending pressure to try and get him off his game? And that's where, you know, you start making an impact. I think so. I would assume so. I hope so. Yeah, because Graham Mertz hasn't had

wild passing games, I don't think. I mean, he's put up some yards, but nothing absurd, right? Not this year. Last year he did. Right, last year he did, but this year... Yeah, last year. I mean, after last year

I expected him to have a huge year this year. Which is weird, because I think they have a bunch of their guys back who were out due to COVID and after last year, I expected them to have a huge year this year. Which is weird because I think they have a bunch of their guys back who were out due to COVID and stuff last year. So, like, they should be awesome. And the thing is that Graham Mertz, they're now throwing the ball like crazy. They're throwing the ball way more than they're running the ball. I would love to know, you know, they had, let's see, against, against Notre Dame.

They threw the ball 41 times and ran it. Let's see about 30 ish. I mean, when was the last time that Wisconsin threw the ball over 10 more times than they've run it. Dude, couldn't tell you. When's the last time they threw the ball more than 10 times? 41 throws is a ton for one game.

That's insane. Yeah. And, I mean, obviously their run game wasn't working against Notre Dame either because they only ran it for 78 yards as well. But, I mean, I don't know, man. It's just – it may be a different Wisconsin team than we're used to, and so it'll be interesting to how Mike McDonald challenges that. And so the other thing, too, I want to, I do want to talk about Cade versus JJ at some point, because when I'm not

ready, obviously I think we all agreed. We're not ready to make any type of switch right now after one bad half. But if, as we talked about on Sunday, you need a spark. If you're, you go down 14 nothing the you know or or 21 nothing or something in the first half the offense is not moving the ball he makes some bad throws maybe throws an interception at what point would you guys be okay with saying hey let's see what let's see what JJ can do I mean I think it just has to be obvious that McNamara that it wasn't his day that that's what it would be for me like you said it would have to be a spark

situation I think if you know we're within a score or two McNamara would stay in but if you're down by three touchdowns I think it'd be like all right we gotta it's clearly not cage day let's try something else that's what i would expect i actually think that jj should be worked into the game plan as being a different look for the wisconsin defense because i think that anytime they run a read option with cade he's handing the ball off i think jj has a little bit more athleticism. And so you can maybe put him in for a drive in a specific type of situation, run a read option, and maybe catch the defense sleeping just to mix it up a little bit.

And it would also please some fans. I don't know, man. I don't know. I get what what you're saying i get what you're saying but putting him for a whole drive i made a few scores are you are you gonna take him out after that i mean it doesn't even need to be a drive honestly it could just be like a series something to kind of just mix it up throw a little wrench in it. You know, I don't know if, I don't know how prepared Wisconsin will be for something like that. And I think it's just like, just crazy enough to be like, Oh, what,

what was that? You know? Yeah. Then you, then they're thinking about it all day too. You throw that. Okay. I don't just like a spark thing or like a regular thing. I don't think it should be like a spark thing or like a regular thing i don't think it should be like a regular thing i think it should it should be like just one of those like you know and again i'm not in the meeting rooms i don't know i haven't watched like wisconsin film but if you see something in the film room and you're like oh we got this qb who's maybe a little bit more athletic if this situation arises in the game let's put jj in for you know one two three downs and see what happens it could

be the thing that kind of sparks or it could fall flat but i mean i'm i just want to see josh guys do something besides run you know in the in the ball quick, Cora. We're coming up with anything possible at this point. That's basically where we're at is what it sounds like. Anything but a halfback dive. Yeah. Right. Yeah.

No, I actually don't hate that move every so often. Maybe it's two plays in a row, you know, first and second down. Let's say, you know, in the first quarter on their second drive or third drive or something, they get a first down, right? And so they're driving a little bit. And I would want this, I would want maybe points on the board or to be in the lead to do this, I think just so that it's like more comfortable and not like a desperation type of thing. But I don't mind it because like you said, even if it falls flat, all of a sudden Wisconsin's like, what the fuck? We were not expecting that.

And now all of a sudden they're like, all right, searching for plays. What do we do? You know, if JJ comes in and, you know, takes one for – he pulls one for a little bit and sees, you know, goes for even five yards, all of a sudden that's a different look. You know, at the same time, I understand the last thing I want is to hurt Cade's confidence in this situation. Well, even if they're having like a solid drive too,

and you're getting like back-to-back first downs, last thing I want to do is kill momentum and throw JJ in there, right? Like, if it doesn't work out right, you know, like, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Maybe we're – oh, it's not broke? Well, no, that's what I'm saying. Like, if we're talking about if you're like they need a spark and it is broke, then, yeah, throw them in there.

But if Michigan's up, then, you know, that's where I'm at. I'm like, if there's no point, let's not do it. You just watched the first half, Jack. You can sit there. Positive vibes only, baby. Watch the second half. You might be talking different. Nah.

No, I mean, maybe we're overthinking it, but I don't hate it as an option in the playbook at some point. You know, I don't know, that would have been a fun thing to do during the Washington game too. When you're up, you know, two scores or something and see what happens. So, yeah, I mean, I want to, I think you got to use your strengths there. I think we're going to find out if Cade can make all those throws.

I think that it is important for Josh Gaddis to put him in good positions to throw. He did get a little bit of happy feet. He got, you know, he felt uncomfortable there. All of a sudden there was pressure. I mean, that's the one thing I guess that we haven't talked about is kade well this is actually a false statement i was about to say kade really hasn't seen any pressure yet but his first his first game ever he was at ruckers down like 17 nothing um came back and won it came back and won it but i mean that's covid there's no fans you know you're at rutgers i don't know i think going to camp randall this is going to be a real test of can kate

mcnamara you know lead through adversity yeah and we'll find out this weekend. I mean, he hasn't shown us – I don't think he's shown us anything yet to actually – to doubt him. I think we're just all dramatic fans that – I think Stephen Toski put it best. He put something up on Twitter because people were calling for JJ and whatever. And he's like – he had like a list of things. And one of it was like, Michigan's just post-traumatic stress from the past three or four years. We're expecting the worst to happen, so let's put somebody else in there.

I think that's where everybody in the fan base is right now. I think if this was if we didn't have the shitty years we had, I think people would be like, all right, whatever. He had a bad half. He gives a shit. I'm back in the cage, Train, man. I'm, I'm back in the cage train, man.

I'm excited to see what he'll do this weekend. I think he'll do well. I think he'll do well. We all know Kate's legit. We all know the talents there. I mean, I think given the right set of circumstances in terms of like play calling, I actually think he could shine really well in this game. So we'll just kind of have to see yeah i mean i agree with you kaylin i think that there i think it was a week ago or two weeks ago that i said or we we all kind of said we learned that kade can make all the throws right like he has in the first three games in the first three and a half games made all the throws, right? Like he has in the first three games, in the first three and a half games,

made all the throws he needed to. He had one bad half where he did make bad throws. I mean, this is a guy that is, I mean, nobody's actually expecting him to be a Heisman guy. So I think if we were to, like, once again, going into the season, if I told you, Cade McNamara has played three and a half really good games and had one bad half, we'd all say, if you went back to August,

I'd be like, hell yeah, that is fantastic. I love it. Right? Yeah. Can't agree more. So, I don't know. I don't want to just, like like throw everything out that he's done in the first three and a half games because it wasn't a bad half and so we may come back uh we

may come back next week uh Sunday and say oh that was you know we we may say that but I we may say hey he had one bad half it was a weird know, it was they were trying to sleepwalk through the second half when they were up 20-3, blah, blah, blah. You know, there are a lot of things there. So the last thing I want to talk about with this Wisconsin game specifically is Jim Harbaugh in this Michigan football program playing on the road as an underdog. He has not won. Still, he has yet to win as an underdog, Jim Harbaugh has.

And so winning on the road against any pretty much decent team, he actually, it hasn't even been a game, honestly. The best game he's played against a decent team was, I think, Penn State in 2018 or 19, 2019, I think, when Ronnie Bell dropped the ball in the end zone. And they went down 21-0 to start that game. So what do you guys think? Obviously, 2016, Columbus.umbus yeah yeah for sure

yeah um but i don't i have blocked that out from my never happened yeah never happened um what do i mean what do you guys what are you expecting from you know different jim harbaugh different team uh as we've seen. He's talked about starting fast. He's talked about this resiliency and the different attitude and the energy. Do you guys expect to see a different Michigan team on the road? Or could we all of a sudden be talking about same old, same old after this one? I think there's two parts of me. There's optimist me.

That's like, you know what? They'll go out. They'll handle a Wisconsin team that's seemed to be struggling so far this year. Then there's pessimist me who's been a fan, you know, the past few years where we've seen it over and over again. They go play on the road and, you know, it's a heartbreaking loss or it's a blowout or whatever it is. And I think realist me thinks I think Michigan wins a close game.

I think that is a reasonable expectation. I say they win within a touchdown. Yeah, I saw on FanDuel that it was favored for Wisconsin. The spread was one and a half. I mean, I'm a homer. I'm like, oh, they should go in and win. But knowing that we haven't won in Wisconsin in like 20 years,

which is insane. That's crazy. We play them essentially close to every year yeah it's just like and the last couple times we were at camp randall like we lost by like 20 or like almost yeah so i just like don't even know how to predict this game yeah i i i think um you know honestly jack if we go out and win a battle of a game on the road and in adversity i would be so pumped honestly i would almost i would almost feel better if they did it that way than if it was a blowout that's what i was just

about to say i would honestly rather I'd be more comfortable and really like more proud of this team if they like went down and were able to come back or just like battle back and forth and won like in a one score game or something. Because then you can like say, all right, this team can take some punches and still, you know, battle back. That's the thing that we, I'm not sure of yet,

especially with what happened against Rutgers. All of a sudden they got punched in the mouth and like didn't know what to do. So I'm worried that you go into Camp Randall, all of a sudden you take a punch on the opening drive, as we've seen them do literally at Camp Randall multiple times. It's like, all right, pack it in, you know, type of thing. So I'm excited and intrigued to see what they could do there for sure. Yeah, and especially, I mean, we've had a few players on now

and they all talk about the energy and, you know, how much the team rallies around each other and how they're holding each other accountable i think a close like face some adversity type of win against wisconsin on the road would do great things for that for those bonds and that energy for the team too rather than what a blowout would do right like you got to come together you got to believe in yourselves and you got to come back and and win the game and I think them doing that, like, like you said, not only would it make us feel a little bit better about, you know, when they face adversity, they can come back and win the game,

but I think it just gets them to build that trust in each other even more. And then it just makes an even more special team. So I'm, I'm with you. I'd like that. I'd love to see that. I just was thinking that I I'm pretty sure a lot of these guys have not played in an away game in a full stadium, right? Oh, I mean, half of them. Maybe not the ones that are actually playing. Is Cade?

He hasn't played. I guess, yeah. I mean, thinking about like like, Cornelius Johnson. Corum, not really. That's a good point. Forget how young these guys are. Nick I. Hill Green. Junior Colson.

Junior Colson. Yeah. Wow. I wonder if that will have an impact. For sure. I mean, if I'm talking about myself, I would be shitting my pants probably. Deering headlights for sure, don't you think? Man, I don't know.

Yeah, I guess we'll see how it affects them. Maybe they'll just thrive on it. Maybe they'll just love it. I mean, talking to Joel and to Vistardis, you know, the last week, I feel like, you know, Vistardis especially where he's like, yeah, we're all like a group, you know, and we build each other up. And honestly, even seeing Blake Corum and a lot of these guys posting stuff about like, these are my brothers, wouldn't want to go to war with anybody else, like blah, blah, blah. Like, they really want to keep that like i don't know if people are telling them to but they are truly like feel like they've they're in it together uh and almost like kind of

feeding off their own michigan fan doubters as well uh love it i love that too honestly if i was them i'd be like fuck you guys like you know yeah if you're not with us then then stay out right yeah gotta have that mentality totally so how about all right so we talked about this a little bit as well and speaking on the energy which count that count that on the board for uh podcast number uh 47 in a row that we've talked about the energy of Michigan football. I was watching Ted Lasso last night and I texted you guys this. First of all, maybe the greatest show of all time. It's fantastic.

Fantastic show. It's as good as the Rockford files, according to Jim Harbaugh. Rockford files. Is that what he said? The most Jim Harbaugh thing. do you watch ted lasso yeah it's almost as good as rockford files like some like a show from the seven i didn't hear that part of the quote oh my god that is that is very classic um i but uh fantastic show it'll pull at your heartstrings it'll make you smile it's honestly like giving me a different outlook on life honestly very wow if you're talking about

positive vibes it is super positive vibes right it definitely is so i have this theory that jim harbaugh watching ted lasso and taking that in has changed him and changed this and it's going to be the turning point of this program i will one-up you i will one-up you and make this super meta because jason sudakis said that jim harbaugh inspired him when he was playing Ted Lasso. See? Oh, my God. See?

I love it. I mean, I think it's – You heard it here first. Well, I think I was watching one of the episodes last night was one of the soccer players, he was down he's playing terrible they had to bring him back to like an old place where he played uh or where um what's his nuts played uh roy roy kent played and they brought who uh pretty boy right oh yeah no team captain new captain right yeah yep so so they bring him back it's right

it's where roy kent like learned to love the game he said you need to learn to like to enjoy and love the game again i feel like jim harbaugh this offseason needed to learn how to love the game again they weren't having fun with it they you know none of that was was there and all of a sudden he watches Ted Lasso and he's seeing positive things out of people, he's bringing a new energy and now he loves football again and that's going to be

the difference for Michigan. You might be right, maybe you do have something there I think it's hilarious Would that not be the most Jim Harbaugh thing ever? If he like, let's say we're down the road, they win the Big Ten title, beat Ohio State,

he's, like, on the podium, and he's like, I just want to thank my family, God, and Ted Lasso. See, now I'm definitely getting tickets behind the bench, getting as many people as I can to just be like, Roy Kent, Roy Kent. Oh, my God. That's awesome. Oh, my God. I think I do love the chants.

I feel like we got to start some soccer chants in Michigan Stadium, too. Hell, yeah, dude. Get it rolling. I would love that. I would love that. Like, I'm not a huge soccer fan, but their crowds are incredible. Oh, that in Europe. Unmatched.

Unmatched. I just love, like, I don't know. I love that they just, like, come up with chants and somehow everybody knows them and screams them in unison. It's really incredible. Well, it's like the student section at Yost. Yeah. Like, they've got their own chants, right?

Like, if that came to the big house, that would be incredible. May as well. It's coming soon. May as well. I would love it. Put it behind one of the field goal posts. Love it. Love it. All right. That's why I peaced on Ted Lasso. I mean, I think that

we got to have another reporter ask him about it. Down the line, if they're playing well. Talk to Larry. We'll have Larry ask him. Larry's got to ask him about it let's down the line if they're playing well like we'll have larry ask him larry's gotta ask him that'd be hilarious oh god um all right so last thing uh is uh some picks here right we want to check out the rest of the slate what's going on around the big 10 on saturday around the country oh go ahead go ahead um i don't know if you guys saw i think it was brian john mary uh who was at michigan last year um and now at tennessee oh he said that michigan crowd is like a tennis crowd would you guys love that i love that

he said it but he never coached a game in the big house when there were fans come on dude right yeah like it's just he he also like when you read the whole article too he he goes on it's not like he backtracks a little bit but it doesn't sound as bad obviously that's gonna be the headline um he he like credits the stadium the tennessee stadium it's more like up over you to keep the noise in where Michigan Stadium is more of a bull. So I – after reading the full article, I didn't hate it so much. But for him to say, like, kind of more like a tennis crowd, I'm like, dude, come on. Why are you taking shots like that? Yeah, you haven't even been in there. Well, that's my question is, like, what provoked him?

Did they ask questions about it? Was he trying to, like, recruit somebody away from Michigan to Tennessee? What was the reasoning for him saying this? I don't recall. Yeah, I don't recall either. Yeah, I mean, that's the weird part to me is if you're just like randomly saying that type of stuff, I don't get it. Also, that's just you just burnt a bridge that you probably already burned,

but you just burned a bridge that like nobody at Michigan, you know, check one school off the list that isn't going to hire you back. Right. I don't know that that was weird, but for whatever reason, Michigan and Tennessee have this like weird, like recruiting and coaches rivalry now, like they, you know, we've had obviously Milton transfer Aubrey Solomon transferred. And so we like, they've gotten some recruits and, you know, stuff like that. Like I'm like,

people talk about Michigan being an irrelevant program. Tennessee is about as irrelevant as it gets. I'm sorry about that. What was it, 97, 98? Yeah. When they were relevant, Peyton Manning? Yeah. I mean, you could probably say the same about Michigan, you know,

close to it, but, like, at least they've, like, contended for the title in, you know, a decent amount of time. Like, been playing in big games. Tennessee hasn't even played in a big primetime game that I can think of. You're not wrong there. Sorry, that was an anti-Tennessee tangent out of nowhere. All right. Looking at the schedule for Saturday,

there was one that intrigued me. Iowa and Maryland, I believe. Both undefeated, but I think everybody kind of writes off Maryland as like, you know, not that great, right? They've played well, but nobody – Maryland just hasn't ever gotten over the hump, right? So I don't think they get the respect. But Iowa is only a three-and-a-half point favorite versus Maryland.

And it's in College Park. I mean, is anybody saying, like, wow, Maryland's stadium is going to go crazy? Sorry, I'm just anti everyone else. Maybe. I don't know. Maybe. Honestly, looking at all the games this weekend, there were not a lot of games I felt confident in betting in.

There were three games I felt confident about, two more so than the three. But all of them, I feel like they're kind of toss-ups. Like, could go any other way. Yeah, I mean, actually actually there's some games that are like i'll watch but okay you're right yeah i won't bet on a lot of these games um i did think there was one michigan state started out i believe as only a touchdown favorite over western kentucky now the line's up to a minus 11.

I'd expect that to be, you know, a bigger spread. Totally. At home against Western Kentucky and 730? Right. I don't know. That was weird. I don't know. What is Western? Western Kentucky is one and two.

They're QB stone for 1,200 yards already. What? God. They did just play. Oh, wow. They beat Tennessee Martin 59-21, lost to Army 38-35, and then lost to Indiana 33-31. So maybe they're decent.

I don't know. Okay. Yeah, maybe they are. See these MSU DBs on how they play. Yeah. Indiana Penn State is Penn State minus 12.5 now. I don't know. We'll find out now if Indiana for sure is, like, really bad or what, right?

Right. Yeah, still don't know enough about Indiana yet to feel comfortable making a bet there. Yeah. And then Nebraska, Northwestern. Northwestern is terrible, but Nebraska is minus 12. I mean, that's a pretty big spread for somebody who is one and two as well. Right.

Sorry. No, they're two and three. Jeez. Sorry. Fuck. Let's see. Oklahoma State, Baylor. Oklahoma State minus three and a half honestly no idea what either of those teams have done no Baylor beat Iowa State last week I think I forgot that

the Big 12 existed I thought it dissipated after this year I thought Texas and Oklahoma were already in the SEC yeah Yeah, same. Texas A&M, though, is only a touchdown favorite over Mississippi State. Yeah, I don't know how I feel about A&M either. I just don't know enough about Mississippi State. Sounds like we don't know anything. No. Why are you saying college football is all over the place right now?

I do think you're right there. The three bets I do have is somehow Arkansas, or Georgia's favored by 18.5 over Arkansas. And Arkansas has had already two big wins on the season. So I took Arkansas plus 18.5. Ole Miss at Bama. I took Ole Miss plus the points at 14.5. And then I took um cincinnati over notre dame i like cincinnati over notre dame yeah only minus two as well um yeah i like that uh i i like the uh the arkansas bet too yeah i mean you give them

that many points i'm like That's a lot of points. I mean, geez. That is three scores. That's crazy. The other one that intrigued me too was Ohio State only minus 15 at Rutgers.

I know. I kind of wanted to bet on that game. Those three I did as a parlay. I might of wanted to bet on that game. I might – because those three I did as a parlay. I might bet Rutgers plus the points against Ohio State just for fun to root for them. But I don't know. I think Ohio State is going to start fucking blowing people out again. Probably.

It's just a feeling I have in my heart that's falling apart. That is ingrained in us. Yeah. An innate feeling at this point um alabama only uh 14 and a half point favorite not only alabama 14 and a half point favorite over old miss that i think is going to be the funnest game to watch all day oh my god what's so much offense only 58 and a half i i'm sorry i'm sorry that was rockers ohio state 79 and a half. Over under 58 and a half? I'm sorry. That was Rutgers-Ohio State. 79 and a half.

80 points. That's about right. Might take that. Might take that over. That's one of those overs that's so high you have to take the over. Just to root for points. See if it'll happen. Oh, that's fun.

That is fun. I mean, that's like the two probably top two quarterbacks in the country right now right yeah yeah corral for sure and lane kiffin coming back yeah i love lane kiffin too oh my god i love it he's the best all right that's all i had um for yeah that's um trying to think i know i'll probably put in uh that records plus the points and uh that bam all miss over a day of i'll make that a day of that but uh those there's gonna be some fun games i mean arkansas georgia will be fun old miss alab Alabama will definitely be a fun game.

Michigan, Wisconsin, I mean, that will be an interesting game at least. Learn a lot about Michigan from it. Yeah. Yeah, interesting to us at least. I think it's going to be like a classic Big Ten game. It could be like 12 to 9. I'm almost thinking about taking the under on that game i think it's like 40 is low 43 and a half yeah um i'll be interested to see how that line changes too i

i saw it flip to michigan minus one and a half like right away i feel like it's gone back and forth yeah so i don't know what's going on there but now it's minus two uh Wisconsin currently um so we'll see what happens there but I'm excited I mean this is like this is one of those big tests for Michigan right it's their first real big test I think um this is a classic Michigan game as well where it's a huge game for Michigan going into it but then if they win it's you know Wisconsin stinks and they're not there yeah right um but if they lose then how do you lose to a Wisconsin one and two team right that's the lose lose it's a lose-lose situation which it seems to always be for Michigan so that is – that's how it always goes.

That's how it goes. So, all right. But we might have something out later this week as well before it goes out here. I want to give a shout-out to Truly as well. You know, no tailgate this week, but we appreciate Truly for hooking it up for the first four weeks here. It's been – I tell you what, I am tired. I am tired.

It's been a grind. You know, I don't throw the word hero around often, but heroes – I think we are heroes for tailgating four straight games and being there the whole time. I'd say MVP's out to us. MVP's out to Truly for sure i'm gonna still drink a truly in honor and honor this weekend oh of course yeah i got a shotgun of truly before kickoff absolutely absolutely so i think it's the post game tailgates that that hit very very hard

i had a very long sunday i'm just sitting on the couch watching football, feeling like a huge piece of shit. Well, I don't know when or why we decided that, yeah, we're going to just open the tailgate back up for postgame. But it was a great idea, but a terrible idea in the same sentence. Right. For sure. But, hey, I'm excited for a little away game action um you know check

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