Blue By Ninety - MICHIGAN FOOTBALL IS REALLY GOOD AT FOOTBALL

Episode Date: October 12, 2023

MICHIGAN IS ELECTRIC. VERY GOOD FOOTBALL TEAM. WHAT ELSE IS THERE TO SAY?

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

Touchdown, Wolverines! Alright, welcome back to Blue by 90. I'm Justin, joined by Jack and Tanner today. It is October 12th, and it's cold. It's fall weather, dude. Is it even fall? I don't know, man man it went straight from 85 degrees to 40 degrees in rainy and some people like it i know tanner's a fan he's been waiting for for this it is sweatshirt weather it is flannel weather you know maybe a puffy vest perhaps like kody just got a couple of. So she's like ready for it. Not,

not a fan of the sleep though, or like the freezing rain, potentially freezing rain. Like I'm, I'm good on that. Saturday is going to be, uh, be layered up.

That's for sure. For me, it's a, uh, it's Wolverine boots weekend where they've got all the flannel gear, like hoodies. You wear the big boots. Like I'm pretty pumped up about that. Do you have a connection that could hook us up with some discount? They've got all the flannel gear, like hoodies. You wear the big boots.

I'm pretty pumped up about that. Do you have a connection that could hook us up with some discounts, potentially? Because I'm a big Carhartt guy, but I'll sell out. Whoa. I will sell out. I think you absolutely should sell out for Wolverine boots. They're a great brand. I do have a flannel of theirs that my mom got me just because it was Wolverine.

She's like, I thought you'd like that. I was like, I do. Thank you. That was last christmas it's very comfy i like it a little uh teaser here at uh over at the valley at studios uh next week is going to be wolverine boots week so i'm gonna you know there's gonna be a lot going on so um with uh maybe starring some of your favorite Michigan football stars, I don't know. So a little plug there. But, you know, the other brand I want to plug here as well, I've got two to plug.

One is our friends at North Peak Brewing. I cracked a Havoc Fresh Coast IPA. I do love, not West Coast, it's Fresh Coast IPA. I love that. They're just fun people over there at North Peak Brewing. Today, it's the Havoc, but Saturday, it will be the Hale IPA and the Blue by 90 Game Day Ale as well. So go to Bush's right now, grab your six-pack,

and you have to stock up it's gonna be we're gonna need a couple drinks in us to stay warm on Saturday dude I was hyping up the beers to the state and liberty crew today and they were all like jacked up I was like yeah Justin's dropping off a couple pallets tomorrow for the tailgate and they're like pallets like yeah pallets we have a loader yeah skin loader we could potentially borrow at the uh state liberty tailgate potentially potentially well that was the other brand that we needed to give a shout out to was state and liberty so um if you're listening and you're in ann arbor thinking about coming to the blue by 90 uh tailgate unfortunately we are not going to be there this weekend. We're going to be over at the State and Liberty tailgate on Main Street.

So hit us up if you're trying to come through. We can maybe figure something out. We'll figure something out. Get you on the pass list, you know, some VIP guests. Yeah. Oh, yeah. But, yeah, we're going to have a good time um you know i uh i i sometimes i'm like when how old am i when i start thinking like uh you know the weather um it used you know a couple years back i'm like

it could be zero degrees and and i'm tailgating for you know for that but now i'm married i feel like an old man sometimes and i was just thinking about like damn packing up in like freezing rain sounds pretty miserable i am i ryan day am i cj stroud i'm worried about am i oh fuck i think that i think the biggest issue too is they're playing indiana like if it was like that true penn state ohio state if michigan state was good Am I? Oh, fuck. I think the biggest issue, too, is they're playing Indiana. Like, if it was like Penn State, Ohio State, if Michigan State was good, you know, it would be, like, more tolerable and more fun. I mean, one of the best days of my life was November 27, 2021, and it was a blizzard.

And the coldest days of our lives. It was a great fucking day. And, like, after the game, we're like, dude, it's snowing. It's cold. It's great. We're running on a high. It just makes it that much more magical that must have been the the one of the coldest days where i never once felt cold never once did i even think about feeling cold that day uh i love that because there's the juice in the fireball yes we did have a decent that will keep your insides

lined with heat for hours to come. It will kill the lining, but it will keep you warm. Go ahead. No, you're good. I was going to make a joke, and then I lost it. So go ahead. Perfect. I love being self-aware on that, you know, mid-sentence.

But I hope that our football team is not as soft as myself or Ryan Day because they do have, you know – even though it's Indiana, they do have to get up and go run the football block, catch the football, pass the football, all those types of things with the balls. Defend the football. Defend the football. Yes.

Yes. So I think they'll be ready, but I think – do you think they're sitting there? They're just like – I feel like they kind of probably are feeling the exact same thing. They're like, it's fucking Indiana. Like, I don't want to be here. They're terrible. We're really good. Let's just go out there, get this done as quickly as possible, and go back inside.

I hope so. Hold on to the ball. Run the ball. Run the clock out. End the game as soon as possible and go back inside. I hope so. Hold on to the ball, run the ball, run the clock out, end the game as soon as possible. I feel like they're probably at a point where, like, obviously they're still busting their tail. It's not like they're going through the motions, but, like, in the locker room they're probably like, dude,

can we, like, get through these games and get to Penn State like we all are? Like, I bet that's probably like, you know, after they're smoking Minnesota on the sideline, like, dude, I can't keep doing this. These poor schools just getting absolutely demolished. Like, I don't know. I agree. I do wonder if they're ready, like, if they're pretty hyped to go to East Lansing, though.

I think that one, you know, even though, obviously, it truly is going to be, is this the worst Michigan State team in the 21st century? I don't know. Three and nine years is pretty tough. That team was kind of unlucky but also bad. But since Mark D'Antonio is, I think, where I'd cut it off because some of those – Michigan beat them 49-3, I think, in 2002. So there were some really, really bad MSU teams.

When did John L. Smith stop and D'Antonio start? It would have been 07 because that was Hart's last year when he made the comment. Yeah, 07 was when I believe he took over. Yeah, in the last 15 years, this is probably their worst football team.

I still think, and i hope coach harbaugh is feeling the same as well where i don't care i want to go there and beat win that by 100 i 90 you know if i had to put a number if possible but i do i want to beat the shit out of them um and yeah i i'll be honest. I'm looking past Indiana to MSU. Oh, right. We got a bye week after Indiana, right? After MSU.

That's a good reset, I feel like. You go after the bye week, you play Purdue. Instead of going off of a bye week to play Penn State. I actually would much rather, before a big game have a bye play somebody else and then play the big game so I think it sets up perfectly for Michigan after the bye

to kind of get back into into the swing of things against Purdue and then into Happy Valley which we're counting down the days like dude so I don't know Justin if you feel this but like whenever we're doing shows and it's like I hop on the voice of college football, and I love going to all these shows. It's not that, but it's just like tell me about Indiana. And I'm like, they stink. I don't want to spend 30 minutes dissecting Indiana Hoosier football. I felt that way the whole season.

I totally agree with you. Usually it's like you're trying to, all right, where are the holes on Michigan's opponents, this week's opponents' defense that Michigan can exploit? And it's like literally the whole team. What do you want me to say? I don't know. Michigan's going to demolish.

I don't know. Is there a player on Indiana, on Minnesota, on Nebraska, anywhere that would start on Michigan's team? I don't know enough about football to answer that question. Tanner might be better for that. Tanner, let's use your knowledge here. Tyler Durbin from Minnesota is a stud. Their safety.

Pull that one out. He will be a high draft pick. He's a stud. He would probably get a lot of PT. He wouldn't start, but Darius Taylor, he didn't play, but he's a guy that I like from Minnesota. Nebraska, I like. Yeah, yeah.

I believe he's from Walled Lake in Michigan. So maybe a transfer portal candidate. Portal candidate. Who knows? I'm just saying. I'm just saying. I like the Nash. Is it Huttmeyer from Nebraska? Their nose. But like, I mean, he would get run. But like Kenneth Grant, Chris Jenkins. All right. All right. All right. Yeah, I know. I'm just Iing a little bit of my football knowledge here. I don't even know. I don't even know where. Like, where we even go with that. No, I know. I mean, the point is that, like, legitimately, to your point, you know, we're trying to break things down and see, like, where we can explore.

Like, Michigan is that loaded. They truly are that loaded right now. And I, you know, on our live stream on Bleacher Report, I, you know, Michigan has done everything it's needed to these teams over the past, especially few weeks. First three weeks of the season, they probably left some to be desired, right? It was like, you know, there was no time where you're like, ah, shit, we're going to lose this game.

But you're looking for them to just be dominant. And in the last, in October, in late September and early October, they have been dominant. And so, you know, I actually, now that I'm saying that, this weekend I wouldn't be shocked if it if we revert back to just being boring and winning by 21 points or something because it's cold and rainy and like nobody cares you know what I mean it's almost funny to say that boring and just winning but still winning by 21 but like I mean we are so I get what you're saying we are so spoiled right now.

You're so right. We have to call ourselves out on that right now because you just never know when the winning stops. It's so easy to say, oh, this is so stupid. We're playing Indiana. I'm going to beat them by 30. There was years not that long ago that I would kill to have an easy win. Even some of the good years, like we're going to Indiana and winning an OT.

I mean, last year was 10-10.5. But this Indiana team is really bad. Justin, I wanted to circle back. What do you want from me, man? I don't know. Justin, I wanted to circle back. What do you want from me, man? I don't know. Justin, I wanted to circle back. I wanted to share this with you and the listeners. Circle back and follow up.

Yeah, let's synergize. Hey, shoot me a calendar link. Hey, Calendly is what I use. Let people book the meeting. Yeah. But what you were talking about with Michigan doing everything that it's needed to do to remain number two in the country and kind of live up to expectations. My big thing lately is when I go on TikTok, I get a lot of college football analysts

and TikTokers where they're dedicated to college football, and I'll just go. I saw once a day, man, where this guy was revisiting his Big Ten championship selection. He had Michigan and Illinois. And so he picked who he thought moving forward after the first six weeks, seven weeks of the season would be in the Big Ten Championship. And he put Ohio State and then like Wisconsin. And I was like, what have you seen for Michigan?

Yeah, so I trolled him. I don't think he took the bait. But that's my thing now is I just go and I just like, anyone who says negative things about Michigan on TikTok, I just like roast them. So that's been like my, like after work, I'm i'm just watching tv yeah that's what i've been doing so i'm a little south park and and roast some no no claudia will not let me uh watch south park um so that's why i've got the ipad though because i can watch headphones in. You can be an iPad kid. I am an iPad kid. Naughty.

Huh? It's too naughty. She doesn't find it funny. Oh, but I showed her a clip of butters that I thought was hilarious. And she laughed and now she quotes it. I'm like, watch the show.

Like just humor me here. So I don't know. It's a, it's a, that's the worst part about being married is having to pick shows to watch. That's my least favorite part. I'll get that out there.

Yeah. What, what would you say what are dumb things that guys think are funny as fuck and girls are like i don't get it at all oh talking about shit at all just like shit like shitting your pants i have that conversation with guys constantly and women are just like what are you what are you talking about like Like you've shit your pants. If you don't shit your pants as an adult, you're lying. And now I know that you're not an honest person. I don't know if I've ever done that.

You've never pooped your pants as a kid, as an adult, as an adult, you never pooped your pants. No. So, so you're not honest. You're a liar. I get,

I get to where I need to go to accomplish that task. Like that's never happened to me. Yeah, but there are times where you just can't get to where you need to go. Yeah. Or you think it's something else, and you're like, oh, shit, I've gone too far. Yeah, exactly. You gamble, and sometimes you lose the gamble. Yeah.

This is what Michigan's schedule is doing to us, guys. We're so far off the rails. We're not even close to the fucking tracks anymore um i think one other thing is like old stupid like youtube videos and vines from like i think they're the funniest thing ever from like things we grew up on and then i show them to jacklyn she's like i i truly she's like I'm not trying to be a jerk I just don't get it I don't understand yeah that's chicken nuggets just

in general though just like things dudes enjoy is just throwing on Tavon Austin's college highlights at a party and Kid Ink Helen Beck comes on and everyone else is like it's the same as like the where did he go to college TJ Hushprizada. Oh, I like that.

Yeah. Oregon State? Was it Oregon State? Hey, man, Ocho Cinco. Who's your mama? Yeah. That's a fun guy's thing. Cinco went to Florida State?

Yeah, just like naming random athletes for sure. Yeah, Danny Woodhead. Like that's a fun one. Let's go one round here. Let's pick one letter, and you have to say an athlete that starts – the first name starts with a letter. I'm just being random.

I'm going to say G because I have a – I have a humble brag, but I have a Gus Macker champion hat here. Didn't have the flex on us that hard. All right. We – Tanner, you go start with a G now. Can I be first or last name? Sure. Jeremy Gallen. Jeremy Gallen.

Jeremy Gallen. I like that. Jack? I'm not going to cheat, and I'm going to stick with first name. Gary Payton. Gary Payton. All right. Good gloves.

I'm going to get one that reverses order now. Graham Glasgow. If you do a double. Highest graded guard by PFF last week for the Lions. Four and one Detroit Lions, might I add super bowl soon to be champions super bowl lions we were in so we were in boston watching the game at a sports bar and they're just demolishing the panthers which is what really good nfl teams do to really shitty nfl teams and claudia looks at me and she's like what if they go to the super bowl and i'm like would you slow your roll let's win a playoff game no they're going to playoff game they're going super bowl i you're

wearing a detroit fucking hat and you're not in the lions i believe baby but i've been burned too many times i need that's the fun of it man that's true i'm gonna be like week week nine i'm gonna be emotionally just dive in like i'm still I'm all the way in right now. I'm probably not, but Super Bowl, that's tough. Let's win a division. Got to have something to root for, man. Got to have something to root for. Absolutely.

Well, when I was at the Morgan Wallen concert in Ford Field, I was airdropping photos of Jared Goff from ESPN, like his headshot, just to random iPhones. I love that move. I told all the security guards, I'll see you here in January for the NFC Championship. Every security guard I saw, and they all loved it. It was great. We should start doing that with just

the Blue by 90 logo to everybody in Michigan Stadium. That's fucking genius. Or our Venmo account or something that's fucking great we should have a traveling person dedicated or like we switch it up and we just go to game day and we just have the blue by 90 venmo or cash app on a sign and we're right next to the washington state flag that's there every week yeah oh my god that and it can be like it can just be like the r Ryan Day is soft foundation.

That would be fucking great. Change the name of our venmo. Speaking of Ryan Day is soft, did you guys see Ohio State rush for like three yards a carry against a bad Maryland rush defense? Because I sure did. Dude, they're – okay, let's talk about them for a second. I don't think they're good. Knock on wood, knock on wood. Like I'm not trying to get ahead of myself. And I don't – they're good knock on wood knock on wood like i'm not trying

to get ahead of myself and i don't i hate to talk myself into this in week seven you know what i mean like usually i try to convince myself that they're really really good so that like the expectation is that like we're not gonna beat them you know and then when we do beat them then holy shit this is awesome i mean i've watched them and they're i don't think they're that good and go ahead i i agree with you i think i'm not going to say they're not good but i think they're just on a different fucking planet than michigan right now like they're they're not good enough to beat michigan and i feel very confident in that but i think they can still win the games they're, they're not good enough to beat Michigan. And I feel very confident in that, but I think they can still win the games they're supposed to win,

but they're not going to like, they're not the same Ohio state team they have been. No, no, they're not. I mean, Ryan days on the sideline looking frustrated. I mean, you know, in the second half of the court to his credit, he made some throws and they made some plays, but a lot of that was Marvin Harrison jr. Being a freak, but they can't run the ball.

Mine Williams. I don't think still he doesn't have 100 yards total rushing. Total. Not a 100-yard game, like 100 yards in the season. What's Travion's deal as well? Yeah, is he hurt? I'm not sure. I think Chip Tranum is the best of the three, but they don't play him as much for whatever reason.

I thought he looked the best against Michigan last year in the game. Number 19, their running back. So, yeah, I don't know, man. reason um i thought he looked the best against michigan last year in the game uh number 19 they're running back so yeah i don't know man um in maryland god i can't imagine being a maryland fan like mike loxley and josh gaddis were just having we didn't realize it at the time but just the most mid-off ever when they're like arguing about who designed the plays and who called them or whatever when he was at michigan you both suck. Like, I don't know. You both are terrible. I mean, Josh Gaddis, they're down 10.

Dude runs four straight halfback dives, basically. Like, have a keeper with two of them. JTT crashes down, two of them scored. Like, just ridiculous. How does he have a job? Like, I don't know. One thing, though, I want to touch on for ohio state so for teams like that where okay maryland's obviously a lesser of an inferior opponent to them right ohio state's more talented at pretty much every everything and so there are some games where I think like you know a team will hang for a half

on maybe a couple deep plays or something like that or they'll have some big plays and it'll be 14 14 Maryland was out like doing everything to to Ohio State they were out rushing they were out tackling they were doing it all It wasn't just a couple big plays. They were pushing them around and in the shoe. And this is somewhat of a hyped up game for Ohio State. Other than

Notre Dame, the biggest one of the year. I don't know. I'm just... I truly don't believe that they are anywhere near any Urban Meyer team at Ohio State at all. I don't know. I'm just – I truly don't believe that they are, like, anywhere near any Urban Meyer team at Ohio State at all. They ain't got that dog in them. No.

I mean, truthfully, like, as ridiculous as that sounds, like Urban Meyer teams just had this edge to them when he was at Florida, when he was at Ohio State. I mean, hell, even when he was at Utah. They just played with the nastiness. This team is just – I mean, look, they're still going to win 10 games. They very well may well beat Michigan. I don't know. I mean, it's football. Anything can happen. They've got playmakers all over the field, right? It's not a given. But

I watch this team, and I'm watching Maryland, and just Maryland was dominating in the first half. And then, again, Ohio State took over in the second half. Credit to them for playing well in the first half. And then, again, Ohio State took over in the second half. Credit to them for playing well in the second half. But watching them and then watching – we don't like the transitive property. I don't at least. But I do think you can take things from watching one team and their performance against the same team and another team. Notre Dame – if Notre Dame would have committed to running the football

against Ohio State, they would have won that game. And Notre Dame couldn't run the ball at all against Louisville last week. So, like, their big win, we talked about it because we had a Buckeye come into our Bleacher Report show. But their big win is sitting at 4-2 with a game against USC at home this weekend. Like, they may very well be unranked for their big win on the season. Like, I don't think Notre Dame's that good. And watching the – I think it's a trend of just watching Ohio State

and expecting more in the Notre Dame game. It's like you can't move the ball. You know, you're not really doing too much offensively. Same thing in the Maryland game. Like, it seems to be a trend. And Ryan Day looks, like, perplexed on the sideline. Like, I don't know if you saw, like, that, like, when you let out, like, that was on the sideline. i don't know if you saw like that that like when you let out like a like that was on the sideline like very visual podcast here um but like that was

his reaction to some of the offensive issues and i just don't know if they've got a fix because i just don't think their quarterback's very good so do you think that you think usc is going to blow out notre dame this weekend no i don't i think i think usc will win though i don't think notre dame's offense is good enough but usc's defense stinks but also that's what i was kind of thinking i mean yeah caleb williams is a fucking freak is notre dame usc the battle of mid kind of i don't think usc's that good either they should have lost to jet fish in arizona and they stink arizona stinks for real he's getting them there though i mean they look more competitive and my you know my wife's dad's a professor uh or associate dean of research at arizona so like i root for the wildcats you know gotta i like jed i think i don't think jed did anything bad like i

like no jed's awesome yeah and i think i think he'll i think i'm hoping that he'll get um you know get it done um at least all all it takes to get it done in arizona is go seven and five like you know that's all you need and they're going to the big 12 next year so they'll get some wins against ucf byu maybe i don't know true smu um yeah so uh the we didn't do a pod um after this past uh weekend um because we were just all busy and a lot going on um oklahoma texas great game that was a lot dylan gabriel's fun to fucking watch dude killed my bet i picked texas money line and that kind of broke my heart we had a whole group of guys and all of us were on texas oh yeah how could you not be yeah but dude dylan gabriel's fucking sick. Yeah. He's nasty, dude. I also need the Texas horny shirt. I need it.

I need it. I haven't seen that. It's just the longhorns and just straight up says horny. That's fucking awesome. You guys see the clip from one of the Oklahoma players, and he's like, there's only two things I know in life. Dude. Oklahoma fears God.

Texas fears Oklahoma. They made that into a shirt. That's sick. I saw the video. That's your linebacker right the the one yeah yeah that's a hard quote yeah that is a hard quote also you know even though i was rooting for texas in the moment there's nothing more fun than going horns down and to be able to do it in the big house all next year is going to be so much fun. That would be a great time. I can't wait to go out to dinner like Friday before the game and just see Texas fans and just like not be wearing any Michigan stuff

and just be like, hey, and just get them excited and just go horns down. Do you think if you're a Texas fan, like is that annoying at this point or just like overplayed? Or is it one of those things that you're a texas fan like is that annoying at this point or just like overplayed or is it one of those things that you're just like oh my god it's gotta be like oh my god shut the fuck up it's gotta be the same as like ann arbor is a whore right like i think yeah i think that's such a lame like i oh it's ann because it's a woman's name but it's just like i've seen that on shirts for years and i never found it to be that funny not funny yeah it's not like this is like clever i think i think that's like fun like annabelle's horror is like

that and it's something you can just like do in people's faces or like in the camera you're just like that yeah it's it's fun to do i think so i think i would get annoyed of it if i was a texas fan didn't was it oh you or a different team didn't they get fined for doing horns down the whole big 12 the big so that's like that's a classic situation where the big 12 like came out and you're like they're like if you do horns down you get penalized and fine which first of all is ridiculous but second of all it's just a classic thing like if you tell people not to do it they they're going to want to do it. Yeah.

That's like, where do we stop with that? Like can people playing Florida not do the gator chop? You know? Like can we not have fun with this? It's supposed to be fun after all. A hundred percent. And it's, I mean, it's just, it's like, did you go to middle school? Because if you went to middle school, you'd know that telling kids not to do something makes them want to do it more.

And we're all kids at heart. So, yeah, there's going to be 50-year-old people that do horns down because of that. 100%. Speaking of being a kid at heart, and I know that's going to take us on a wild tangent, I got back into chess recently. Oh. Kind of fun.

You got to play Dono then. Dono, Cornelius, all those guys play chess. Dude, we got one of my teammates in the office. He brought a little tiny magnetic chess board. And we were playing after work and shit. And there started to be a crowd of people watching people playing. And we ended up getting a new board. And now everybody, anytime they have any downtime, they're on chess.com.

Just fucking playing chess. I love that. Yeah, Donovan sent me his username one time. So I'll send it to you. I'll just randomly friend him and fucking play him in chess. He probably will take it. That'd be awesome. I'm trying to think of other games oh bama a and m where bama probably should have lost that game

is bama also not good then milrow is not it at qb dude i think yes they got i think bama is kind of in a similar situation with ohio state at least as far as my viewpoint of them. They're not bad, but they're not as good as they have when they've been dominating people. That's probably a good take. I think that if they were, if in normal standards, they're still a really good football team, but Bama standards, they're bad. They're not going to win a national title yeah that's pretty much it um i mean clemson also not good it's tough for you um but like they beat wake

17 to 12 that's that's just not a good football game that's like a fucking ill-Indiana game. Yes, exactly. Exactly. How about, I will say, I hate to say this, but Georgia, after looking not awesome for a couple weeks, I went and just beat the shit out of Kentucky. Yeah. Who was looking good up until Georgia. Yeah. So that kind of up until Georgia. Yeah. So that kind of scares me. So they can stay number one. That's fine.

I – they got to go to Knoxville. I don't know. That's interesting. They'll probably go to – Maybe Joe Milton will become fucking – I don't know. I mean, dude, they've struggled with South Carolina. They've struggled with Auburn.

So you never know but yeah yeah i mean i think what's carson i mean once carson beck figures it out it's like all right unfortunately i think he's turning out to be pretty damn good um yeah well it helps me have brock bowers uh yeah we're okay here i have a question where do you guys think brock bowers is gonna go in the draft top 10 i mean Probably top 5. I would say top 5. TJ Hawkinson went top 10. Kyle Pitts went top 10. This dude's... He's a guy you can...

He's a guy you can build a franchise around on the offensive side of the ball. He's so big. He's so athletic. He's fast. They run the ball with him, too. They use him in a fun way. Jet sweeps.

Yeah. I wish that we ran Colston like they do Brock Bowers because it's pretty fun. Is Colton fast enough for that? I don't know, but I just want to see that. One time. Give me one time. Did you guys know that A.J. Barner is the number one graded tight end

in the country on PFF? Interesting. Because now you do. That's a good fun fact. Bowers is too. Yeah. A.J. Barner is just a stud. Justin, I feel like you got to tweet that out right now.

I should. Yeah, I probably should. Fact check it, but yeah. Brian said it to me. Thanks for making up our stat. Our stats guy told me and I told you, but lost in translation sometimes, telephone game. But that's what Brian told me.

Double B's Big House told me that. I trust BB. Go listen to Blue by the Numbers. It's a great pod I don't know shit but we have a great time yeah if you don't know shit then what do we know

that's fair I need to get in my bag for real though BB is like an encyclopedia he knows so much yes he does he's a sick office, too. We haven't put it on YouTube. We just put it on Spotify, but his office has

a Barry Sanders jersey, and then he has Pistons, Tigers, and Red Wings jerseys. I don't remember who that is. Why don't you guys want it on YouTube? We just haven't. Not that we don't. We just haven't done it. We could, moving forward. I just know how to do it on like anchor

for the uploading so we're getting two in the weeds though on Blue by 90 now of like inner workings of how we get the podcast up so it's alright working on it this is again what just like six weeks of

not good opponents do to us there's really not a whole lot to talk about yeah um and uh by the way live reading of uh our publisher cj's tweet here um it is i would rather watch six pitbulls eat my parents alive than a single second of another ESPN show where they yell shitty takes at each other. All right. CJ. Did that? Fucking love that, man.

You're a gem. You are now. What a beauty. He's not wrong, though. I mean, not about the ESPN part, but the pitbulls, that's wild. I have a question for you. I have a question. I have a question. you. I have a question. I have a question. Justin.

All right. My question is, do you think James Franklin was talking about Michigan or was he actually talking about Indiana? I don't think he was talking about Michigan, but I love the fact that everybody got riled up and made it about Michigan. What was it?

What was the quote again, just for the listeners so we can recap it real quick. What was it what was the quote again just for the listeners so we can recap it real quick what was it was something about uh tanner you pulling it up yeah i'm gonna pull it up it was basically him talking about how teams were buying out of their contracts um to play lesser opponents um and then like it was apparently okay here we go um there's a team in this conference that's buying out a ton of game contracts to go in another direction. He added that you got to do whatever you possibly can to give yourself a chance to be undefeated.

That's where I don't understand how it's Indiana. When is Indiana going to have a chance to be undefeated? I mean, they didn't – they probably went 0-1, didn't they? Yeah, so I don't know, like, what – but I guess Indiana had been buying out some games but it's like yeah no shit they're gonna be playing oregon and washington and okay you want to know what's worse about that then is you're the coach of penn state who is supposed to be a big 10 conference title contender and you're sub tweeting indiana foot i mean not only that i'm curious what the

question was to him too dude that's where i'm like there's gotta be more context my thing with james franklin though is if you look at their 2025 non-conference as of right now they, they have Nevada and Villanova. I always forget Villanova even has a football program. I knew that they did, but I sometimes forget that. I'm going to be honest. I didn't know that they did. Yeah, they're FCS.

They're FCS? Yeah. They seem like one of those schools that are like Gonzaga, like basketball only or something. Right, or like Georgetown or whatever. Yeah. So, like, I don't know. I think – oh, okay, here's their 2026 schedule.

Marshall, Temple, Buffalo. So, I just think it's bad either way. If you're subtweeting Michigan, then you're an idiot because you're riling up Michigan for no reason and creating bulletin board material. If you're subtweeting Indiana, that is more embarrassing because they are a poverty football program, and I don't understand why you're comparing yourself to them.

Dumb. Dumb. Dumb. He's a dumb man. He's a dumb man. And I hope we beat the shit out of him in Happy Valley. I truly do. Oh, fuck. I've been on the Penn State's kind of mid train for a while.

You guys know that. I've been kind of trash talking Penn State. I don't see it. Defense great. It's not going to be the whiteout game. O-line's bad. It's not going to be the whiteout game. Cause it'll be, uh, it's a nooner already. Hmm.

Yeah. So it'll be, uh, yeah, it'll be, uh, not as riled up student section away games. I love noon.

Absolutely. Don't want to sit around all day waiting for you. Yeah. Um, yeah. Agreed with that. Agreed. Um,

I'm trying to think of, uh, some other that. Agreed. I'm trying to think of some other topics. We're 36 minutes in. Yeah, I mean, Michigan's really good. Yes, they beat the shit out of Minnesota, and they're probably going to do the same to Indiana and Michigan State and Purdue. We've got to make the Ohio State game a trophy game.

I want a full trophy case. Nah, the trophy is... The trophy comes with the Big Ten Championship. Come on now. That's fair. That's fair. I will say it kind of stinks. Our trophy games are like... I mean, Paul Bunyan is still very fun,

but that one's not going to like hyped up this year um boston bowl the bus sucks you know we don't we don't um we also aren't gonna play minnesota for a decent amount of time i don't think once i think it's a couple years yeah which the little brown jug is like like one of the coolest trophies. That's what I love about college trophy games is just all the history behind them. Like the Little Brown Jug being literally a jug that Michigan's like, you're going to poison our water, so we're going to bring our own water.

And then Minnesota's like, we're going to steal it. And then Michigan was like, can we have it back? And they're like, play us for it. And now 100 years later, we're playing for this old jug. I love that kind of shit. And, and the box that it comes in literally just says football trophy. That's like,

there's the simplicity of like where those originated is awesome for sure. I will say that like conference realignment, affecting all that does stink. Absolutely. I think that and like just the regionality of, you know, I never come across a USC fan, you know what I mean? Like, or an Oregon fan really. But I do come across like an Iowa fan randomly or something like that.

Or Wisconsin people. So that part does stink. I will say I am 1000% sale gaining in next year. I'm down where I was going to go in 2020. I was going to go in 2020 as well. Washington, they do sale gaining, which is,

that's like a dream. I've never been out West. I think that'd be fucking sick. I just love college football so much, honestly. I do love college football. Like I was just pulling up like the top college football like trophy games and like the Notre Dame USC is the Jeweled Shalala. I believe that's how you say that.

Oh, I've been to the old Shalala. Yeah, yeah. We've got Paul Bunyan's Axe say that. Oh, I've been to the whole Shalala. Yeah, yeah. We've got Paul Bunyan's axe for Wisconsin, Minnesota. And then Floyd of Rosedale, which is a brass pig for Iowa, Minnesota. I love the Midwest. Midwest and college football are just the best, dude. Like you just come up with – here's a pig trophy for Iowa, Minnesota. I will say, you know, the SEC, like,

loves to tell everybody that they're the best. And, you know, maybe they are. I don't know. You know, they win a lot of championships. Fine. But there is nothing better than being like, we're the Midwest, and we care about football a lot in the winter. Like, fall and winter.

Oh, yeah. And it's cold, and you're so soft. Yeah. No, like, we're joking about the cold, but, like, one of my favorite things around this time of year is when it does get colder, like, going to a game, especially a noon game, makes it even better. And then you just come home, and you just, like,

have some chili on the crock pot. You get, like, some wool socks on, some sweats, and you're just watching football. Like, that's a great time and being in the being a football in the elements is that's one of the more uh more enjoyable things in life in my opinion as long as it's not raining and you stay dry like i love it like if it was snowing that'd be cool yeah snow's fine cold's fine rain is just god fun sucker well it's a good good thing it's not gonna rain this weekend i'm still hoping the weather changes we you're still hoping you're like 36 hours out we'll uh

we'll hope for some uh some change here um but uh either way we'll see you saturday i mean i'll be there i'll be in the big out and about i'll big house I'll be there wouldn't miss it anyway so for us you can follow us at blue by 90 on Twitter Instagram Facebook at blue by 90 podcast on YouTube and blue by 90.com we appreciate you go blue

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