Blue By Ninety - Rudy still sucks, Michigan dominates Notre Dame, and a big running day for The Wolverines.

Episode Date: October 29, 2019

Discussion of Michigan's 45-14 win over Notre Dame.

Welcome to Blue by 90, your Michigan football podcast, coming at you live from the Blue by 90 studio. I'm Kalen, joined by Nate and Jack. Heyo. And we are so glad to talk about the absolute beatdown of Notre Dame that we saw yesterday. Guys, this is like the best I've felt all season. This is amazing. There's certain feelings that you got after that game it's like it's like it's like when you hold your son for the first time or it's like welcome back yeah like when you hold your son for the first time when when you graduate college when

when you see your son win the heisman trophyrophy, and when you see Michigan absolutely destroy Notre Dame, I love it, man. That was great. Such a great night. Just dominated the entire game. Offensive line looked good. Defense looked great. Don Brown was mixing it up with zone and man coverage,

and Shea just managed the game really well. It was fun. And just to sit out there in the rain and watch the football on a poncho was great. Yeah, final score was what, 44-14? 45-14. 45-14, yeah. I mean, we basically witnessed the Notre Dame just fall apart. Every facet of their game.

They couldn't do anything. They couldn't run the ball. They couldn't pass the ball. Some of that was weather, right, obviously. But, I mean, Ian Book was totally immobilized by placing a spy on him. All of a sudden, we're playing zone. Key to the game.

Key to the game. Oh, Ian Book, yeah. He has 73 total pass yards. He ran the ball for 13 yards. Yeah. He's a fast guy. He's athletic.

He's explosive. You remember when they were playing Georgia? I mean, even though they lost to Georgia too, I mean, even Book looked like scary. I was going like, oh my gosh,

we got to play Notre Dame later on? Like, this is going to be a disaster. And preseason, I think, I know, I know at least I thought that that was going to be a game that I felt bad about. Yeah.

Beginning of the season. Yeah. And then going in to this game, we were talking about it last week on the podcast, and I felt really confident after the pass. Yeah, at Penn State. At Penn State, and even Corso was calling it on game day. And then it just, it all was put together, so that was awesome to see.

Yeah, that was great. Every pass of the ball, we were just, you know, we were just firing on all cylinders. Let's just talk about the first half. I mean, right out the gate here. Our first half, I mean, this was one of the big things, right? Michigan had played inconsistent ball all year, right? They might play well second half, they might play well first half, but then they fall apart throughout the game. This was the first game where they kind of came out in the first

half, and I was like, okay, we didn't score a touchdown, but we put points on the board. What are you guys' thoughts, first half? I thought the first half was pretty dominant, especially just running the football. And I think for us, it seemed to really work out that the rain, for some reason, just helped us more because I feel like we controlled the line of scrimmage. And I feel like they couldn't pass the ball. And then that was one of the things that they seemed to, if it wasn't raining,

they might have been able to throw the ball up a little bit more to their tight ends who were pretty big. But other than that, they couldn't run the football at all. And so I think when you can't run the football in the rain, it definitely helped us and definitely was an advantage. The punt block, that was the weirdest play I've ever seen. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, that was just a huge momentum play for Michigan. You couldn't be able to take advantage of that and take momentum off of that and be able to

get some points off of that. That was awesome. That was great. And then the offense just started clicking and working, and then next thing you know, they're up by 10-0. It seemed like the rain didn't affect us at all. You would think, like, oh, it's raining, like, the ball's slippery, maybe some fumbles, maybe some, you know. Shockingly, no fumbles.

Yeah. There was a couple things, though, like where Shea had that weird, like, I think that's she just. Oh, he, like, put in his left hand and he, like, tried to pitch it. I don't know if that's because of the rain or just bad decision. That was dumb. That was second half though. I thought the first half was...

Well, Shea did have a fumble at the end of the first half. But again, for rain. Way down the ladder. I'll let that one go. First half, overall, no complaints. That was my big struggle when we were getting ready to record. I was like, I don't have that much to say because we did a lot well.

Second half. Any second half thoughts here? We put up points again. You know, I mean, I've got, I mean, we just put up points. We rode the momentum. We continued to run the ball. We started to be able to throw the ball a little bit because the rain stopped. Yeah.

Going off what I said about the entire game, the O-line was able to make their blocks, create holes for the running backs, get to the second level where the running backs can have a little bit more running room. And as you can see, some bigger running plays. Like Haskins had a big run play, at least one. Sharpen had a couple really nice runs. And that just all starts with the offensive line. We saw him doing a lot of, like, guard pulls and, like, trapped blocks and stuff like that this time.

At least I wasn't seeing him before that. Yeah, Cesar was different. Or they weren't able to pull over in time before that. Yeah. I mean, there was that one. We even saw one with Eric Hall where he wasn't able to get over to steal that block. So, like, she or Shea or somebody could run the ball. But when they're able to do that and get their blocks in time,

I mean, you can tell the difference. Oh, 100%. And I mean, I think it was Big Mike was saying after the game that they had been working on things that they did last year that worked really well and trying to like reincorporate some of that. It's good to see that they're doing that. Yeah, why not? If it ain't broke, don some of that um and i'm like good to see what they're doing yeah why not it ain't broke don't fix it yeah so that's always good to see um yeah you kind of touched on this earlier uh don brown running some zone i mean yeah he really missed it

up which i was just like oh thank god i was like somebody needs to can we give him a round of applause or something i'm like like, dude, finally. Why did it take you so long? It took you four years to play zone. This is a big game, too. I think, you know, I'm sure the main media will still be on Jim Harbaugh. Oh, you never won. I mean, this is his big game that he won.

That was a good Notre Dame team, and they absolutely smoked him. That was what I was going to ask actually What do you think the narrative is on this Because before it was Here's a big game for Jim Harbaugh Jim Harbaugh can't win big games Now that he did win a big game Are we going to say that Notre Dame team was overrated

Jim Harbaugh still can't win big games I think the trend is For like They want a story, The media wants a story. So as long as they can keep perpetuating the whole, like, Jim Harbaugh's unsuccessful kind of thing, it just allows for them to get more views.

I don't think, yeah, narrative doesn't change until the end of the season if he can beat everyone. If he can beat Michigan State and Ohio State and Notre Dame all in the same year, that might change. I think they have to be realistic, though. I mean, look, if the team wins out and loses a game against Ohio State, I'm not going to be that upset.

It's always a disappointment that they're losing to Ohio State. Look, Ohio State has so many five stars. Chase Young was their backup. That guy's being considered a high school contender now. Look, it's just that team is so good, and for us to be able to spoil their season would be awesome, but I just don't see it happening. I would be really happy to see them win out the rest of those games

and for them to beat and just destroy Michigan State like the way they did Notre Dame. He's just trying to go 10-3 again. 10-3, hey, you know. By Michigan standards, that's not a bad thing. Yeah, we all saw that Joel Klatt thing, right, where he was saying, like, the Michigan standard is what Jim Harbaugh has been achieving. Did you see this one, Nate? You know, I completely agreed with it because, I mean, if you think about it,

I remember when Lloyd Carr was there, and, I mean, if you think about it, I remember when Lloyd Carr was there. And, I mean, you look at Lloyd Carr's record, 7-9 versus Ohio State. That's not that great. Not great. A lot of years they ended up in, like, the Big Ten Championship here and there. Not always, though. A lot of 17, like, you know, they ended up being 17. Bo Schembechler never won a national championship.

So, like, I get that whole thing, and I think he's kind of right about, you know. Look, Michigan's had a lot of good teams, a lot of, like, a couple great teams here and there. But, like, this whole, like, complete dominance for 20 years. Last time they – last time it was something like that was, like, probably the 1930s, which they did. They had, like, five years or so that were – Yeah, but nobody – like, that's but that's all before the forward pass. No one carries it.

So, I mean, we'll gloat about it because we're Michigan guys. But I think he's right, right? That people have been kind of spoiled by the Nick Sabans and stuff like that where you're not considered to be a good coach if you don't go undefeated and win a national title every year, right? And I'm like, Jim Harbaugh is a good coach if you don't go undefeated and win a national title every year right and I'm like Jim Harbaugh is a good coach I would say

the feelings towards the last like five years of Lloyd Carr is probably exactly what I feel like right now with the team

yeah you know can't beat Ohio State you know a lot of good teams right like Lloyd Carr's 2006 year

where he had they went what were they number three like they were number three? They were one and two. One and two

in that matchup. It was a one versus two matchup. Both were undefeated. Yeah. Like that, we pretty much

had one of those teams in Jim Harbaugh's second year. When it was a J2 short game. And that could

have gone either way. I mean, if Michigan fans were satisfied with Lloyd Carr, then they should be satisfied

with Jim Harbaugh. I don't know. Maybe I'm wrong. But even Lloyd Carr, I can't remember what you said the record was, but yeah,

he was 6-7-0. I mean, that's not bad. That's a rivalry. You're going back and forth. Oh, 6-7-0? So he was 6-7.

Oh, 6-7-0, yeah. I said 7-9. Bo was 11-9-1. And the only person that really had an amazing record versus Ohio State was Fielding Yost. He was 16-3-1. And the only person that really had an amazing record versus Ohio State was Fielding Yost.

It was 16-3-1. And that was back when Michigan was one of the only teams in college football. We were playing on dirt fields or something. So, I mean, I just think it's unrealistic expectations, which that was the biggest thing that stuck out to me from what Joel Klatt said. I don't know, because I can say it for myself. I have these expectations too, where I'm like,

Michigan should be doing this. Exactly. But it puts it into perspective where we're all delusional. I don't care what anybody says. It's just a fact. And these expectations are just out of this world and coming from nowhere. Yeah, because nobody's going to go like, 10-3! Yeah! Right. Nobody's going to

say that. Everyone's going to go, but it's like, we're not going 11-1 and beating Ohio State state you're fired when was that ever the standard exactly michigan who did other than 100 years ago yeah and ohio state they've been the best program since 2001 when they won the national championship against miami that program has been you can say alabama you can say you know texas for some time you can say oklahoma can say Texas for some time, you can say Oklahoma. Yeah, I get it, but from the past 20 years, Ohio State has been the best program, period. They all started with Jim Trussell, and all of that has bled over into Urban Meyer. That's the program you see today.

Are you saying the best program between us and Michigan? I think they're the best program in the nation. That is horribly wrong. Over the past 20 years. What are you talking about? How many titles have they won in the past 20 years? They've won two, right? How many has Alabama won?

I get there's championships, but I'm saying like if you look at it, Alabama was nothing before Nick Saban, right? They've had two. They've gone off like consistency. Consistency like over a long run. I hate saying this. I hate saying this, but it's just what I feel. When you're looking at championships, I don't know if I agree with that. I don't know if I would put those words on it, but the sentiment is 100%.

I'd say top five. Because you're right. Ohio State is on this epic tear where they're playing basically, they're the best team in the country for the last 15 years basically, right? Just on the level that they're achieving. And so for a team in the same conference to just be like, oh, I'm going to do

the same thing, that usually doesn't happen at all, right? You see it in the SEC with Auburn getting cute sometimes, right? But otherwise, that doesn't happen. God, I disagree with you guys so much on this. I know what you're saying, and it hurts me to say that because I hate that term. But how can you even say it?

Florida, Alabama. But it's looking over the long period of time. Longer, right? Florida had years for the last three or four years just garbage, right? Alabama from 2000 to 2007 was nothing. I mean, think about Urban Meyer's time at Ohio State. He was there for, what, seven years? I think we can say top five.

I just, from my opinion, my opinion, they're top five, no doubt, but number one, I just can't. I mean, just look at their record. Everybody's entitled to their own opinion. Yeah. Let's get back to the game, right? So what were you saying, second half? What?

I'm so frazzled. I'm so, God. No, I mean, yeah, second half to the game, right? So, what were you saying? Second half? What? I'm so frazzled. I'm so, God. No, I mean, yeah, second half of that game, I mean, oh, you guys saw the Stephen Spinellas. Oh, it was awesome. Block. Oh, my gosh. That was insane. Looking like Michael Orr.

Yeah, that was sweet. You just have a couple of those guys now, like, you just see them, like, making plays and really playing with some heart. Like, guys like Aiden Hutchinson. That guy, he's a star. I can't wait to see him against Ohio State. Oh, my goodness. Oh, he hates Greg Madison. He is fired up. I am pumped for this year because, yes, Ohio State is amazing.

Right now, I will say, right? Okay. I will give you credit here. Right now, at this point in the season, I think we're the number one team in the country. Again, we're playing different competition. We're up north. We're not playing anybody in the SEC.

But just off a consistency basis, like you're saying, over the past 20 years, this season they have been, I believe, the most consistent team. We know exactly what we're going to get from them week in and week out. But it's a rivalry game. And we have it at home. Anything can happen in a rivalry game. So, again, where I'm saying, oh, yeah, I feel super confident about Michigan

versus Michigan State, it's a rivalry game. They might come out and spank us. We don't know that. I mean, you could see a little bit of their vulnerability in the first quarter when they were playing Wisconsin, right? Justin Fields had, like, issues with the snap count, right? Where he was clapping his hands and they weren't supposed to snap

the ball and they snapped the ball and all the linemen are just sitting there and Fields is like, oh crap, right? Or he was fumbling the ball. They were also having issues with rain and whatnot as well. But I'm just saying that he's not got a big S on his chest, right?

He's not Superman. So if we show up and play in that game, anything can happen, like you're saying. And we can compete the way we have the past game and a half. As long as we can keep it close, yes, anything can happen. But, yeah, I mean, the rain had blown out. Well, Michigan's goal is going to be to start stringing together some of

these performances right becoming more consistent becoming more tight right and I think they they can definitely

do that right so next week we play Maryland right and I mean there's no reason that we can't go out there tighten up

and just obliterate this Maryland team. Yeah, they're awful. Then we get a bye week, build up some angst in the guys. They're like, man, I want to get out there and play state. And then when it comes to that day, hopefully they can do what they did against Notre Dame. Right. Can I say something?

That call last night drove me up a wall. That's the worst pass I've ever seen. What is with it? That's two me up a wall. That's the worst pass interference. What is with it? Two weeks in a row. The refs make the wrong call on the field all the time. This is why the NFL had to make their pass interference replay system. I know it's not been working well, but you see stuff like that, and you're like, why is this not being replayed I'm literally looking at it on TV

and going how is there no ability to review this overturn it and then call it something it's ridiculous I mean it's their drive

to turn it into a touchdown for them I mean if anything it would be passing interference on their tight end who pushed off

who pushed off on Khalid's helmet Khalid's like sitting there looking like yeah I was like what are you guys doing?

I mean that was awful. Everybody knew the whole crowd was throwing those towels. Oh yeah. So yeah.

I mean even you hear Kirk Herbstreit and Reece Davis in the booth and they're just like that's awful. Yeah.

Yeah but even the commentators are going like that's not even close. Like that was obviously an interception. I feel like the score of the game is 45-7. I'm not giving them that touchdown.

And that garbage points touchdown, that does, I mean. It was with three minutes left. So it could have been 45-0 at one point. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, yeah. They just absolutely annihilated them. And I've never been happier.

Yeah. And I think it was pretty great for the team to have a penalty like that because then it kind of became somewhat of a game, right? Notre Dame had a shot to get another touchdown and come back in it, and the defense showed up. So a lot of positives for the guys to, you know, again, have the refs screwing them over, and they came through and kept pushing and didn't just give up

and let it, you know. I loved seeing Don Brown call some of those zone plays. Oh gosh. Oh. That was amazing. He,

they would be trying to run the cross routes and all of a sudden, boom, someone was right there. They got nothing. It's like, thank God.

We're finally doing this. Yes. Why, what took us so long? And that was good to see, yeah. There was a lot of coverage sacks. Yeah.

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I mean, I love to games so I don't I mean I'd love to see us play them every year but I'm not a fan of the fact that we don't play them for a while

but it is what it is yeah we got some cool games coming up we got like a home and home with Texas or something

do we really yeah we got Oklahoma we got Oklahoma coming up oh shit yeah home and home with Oklahoma it's not until like 2023 though We got Oklahoma coming up. Oh, shit. Yeah, Oklahoma's Oklahoma.

It's not until like 2023, though. So J.J. McCarthy will be slinging it for us. Probably, yeah. But yeah, I mean, we got some cool just one-off kind of games, which I'm a fan of. We start the season at Washington next year. It's kind of cool. It's pretty sweet, yeah.

So I'm all for branching out a little bit. But overall, just to kind of put us back on base here, next week we play Maryland, and this Maryland team is not good. This Maryland team, their 1-4 in their last five games, the only team they beat was Rutgers. So they're 0-4, whereas not even count Rutgers. Yeah, you might as well just say, yeah, no. I mean, as long as I basically be, I mean, I'd be,

at this point where they're at right now, I'd be shocked to see anything other than a blowout. I think it's just continue to do everything that you're working on, the man coverage, zone coverage, just keep that tightened up. Keep D-line, keep shutting plays down at the line of scrimmage. Get some coverage sacks. Stop the run. Offensive line, really just keep doing what you're doing right now

so we can run the ball and make that look good. See if Shea can get some throws in a little bit. I say just keep doing what we're doing. I'm going to be devil's advocate here a little bit and be out of my rocker, but this Maryland team started the season super hot. They played school to blind.

Yeah. I mean, you think that we were all like, oh shit, this might be a tough game for us. You think that could be the team that shows up, you think that, yes, we were all like, oh shit, like the beginning of the season, like this might be a tough, you know, game for us. You think that could be the team that shows up or you think they've identified themselves as, I think they've identified themselves as a sorry team.

I feel like this late in the game. You can't recover. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, right. Anything can happen on any day. Yada,

yada, but I feel like they, well, plus it's, it's a way game for us. And so far we haven't been the greatest on the road. yada, yada, but I feel like they got it. Well, plus it's a way game for us. And it's at Maryland. So far, we haven't been the greatest on the road,

unless you count the second half at Penn State. The other thing is I feel like any time Michigan goes to, you know, Champaign, Illinois, Chicago, you know, Rutgers in New York, or Maryland out in the D.C. area, I feel like Michigan fans show up because there's so many alumni out there. So, I mean, it might even be like a neutral field game. It's not a home game for us. That's true. So, that happens.

I mean, yeah, we should win that game. Yeah. It should be like 36-0. It would be nice. Pick a little score there. Yeah. That's kind of all I got because we were so good on the field. I mean, I don't have that much to say about it.

Does anybody have, like, a player in the game that they – I mean, I'd go with Haskins, man. Hassan Haskins. Yeah, that's the one. He had 20 attempts, had 149 yards. I mean, he did awesome. No touchdowns though, right? No touchdowns.

They put in Charbonnet for the red zone package or whatever. Yeah, Zach had two touchdowns though, right? No touchdowns. They put in Charbonnet for the red zone package. Zach had two touchdowns. But yeah, Haskins. I think he was fifth string going into the season. He also looked patient. He had a number of runs where he was kind of, you know. It seems like at least for the rest of the season, until Chris Evans comes back, they have two guys.

It seems like Christian Turner just kind of fell out. You think Chris Evans is going to come back? You think Chris Evans is coming back? Dude, no way. He said he was coming back, right? What's the point? Why? Dude, why not?

He was – His first year, he was very well. But I think – I mean, I think he's a great hard worker, a great guy. But why mess with what we've got right now? I think he said he was going to come back. He's still enrolled, right? I think he kind of got beat out, honestly.

I don't think he can make his way back in. I wouldn't be surprised if Jim was like, yeah, come on back if you've got his stuff straightened out. I thought that was the whole deal, though. He was going to sit out a year and come back. I don't see any guarantee that he'll ever play again. I don't think he'll ever play again.

Yeah, maybe he'll come back on the team, but he'll never play again. I'd be shocked if he played again. What do you think he'd play over at this point? I think he's still better than Haskins. I mean, Haskins had a good game, but here's the thing. I feel like the offensive line did such a great job. That's true. A lot of those holes were made by him.

Other than that, we knew Zach was making plays even when the offensive line in the beginning of the season wasn't doing that well. But Haskins, to me, I'm still waiting for him to be more than just give the ball, run through the hole,

and have some speed. That's kind of my opinion. I'm really happy with what he did. He had a lot of great plays. What was it against Illinois where he had two guys on him, kind of spun off, and got hit a touchdown?

Yeah, he's had a couple of guys. Yeah, he's had a good run last night where he was two guys on him, kind of spun off, and got hit a touchdown. Yeah, he's had a couple of touchdowns. Yeah, he's had a good run last night where he was stiff-arming guys. So, I mean, yeah, he can be really good. I can kind of see where you're coming from, where he hasn't wowed me or anything. Yeah, he hasn't been on a consistent basis. But, I mean, I think he's our— Do we have a man beer on the leading roster right now? I don't know.

But if we saw Chris Evans from his first year, I think he beats out everybody. Oh, of course. But, see, I feel like last year,

I started last year so disappointing for me, like watching him play. But you do have that eye. You've got that

eye. These guys, it takes me a little bit longer to catch on. Actually, he might be a really good guy to have in

this new offensive scheme, right? We can line him up. That's what I was disappointed with he's out this year he was going to

play and he was a guy who had speed and space yeah exactly so maybe you're onto something I just hope he comes back for the

sake of I feel like he got screwed over with the whole deal what was that whole deal I heard he

cheated on an exam or something or like on a homework. I don't know. Don't take my word for it. I thought it was academic. Yeah, I was, I was saying the whole thing

but I thought it was academic. I just, not 100% sure. That's like Twitter level rules. Yeah. So I don't know what his deal is. I hope he gets his stuff

straightened out. You guys got anybody different for MVP of the game? Um, eh. I mean, I guess there's guys who I like to,

Cesar really seemed to be like, you know, running and making blocks. So, if there's an offensive line, I guess Cesar I would pick because he seemed to be pulling a lot

and making some good plays. And then, dude, I just want to mention this again. McGrone. God, that guy is a stud. Dude,

he is so fast. I feel like we literally got Devin Bush again. He's so lucky. He's so lucky, dude. He's fast. He finds the gaps in the defense, and he just fires through them. He's coming at the cannon. Explosive.

Yeah, I love that guy. My player of the game is the whole defensive line. I mean, they were just crushing it. I mean, even Mattel just had a good game in the secondary playing safety. I thought he played really well. He had a couple pass breakouts. I was happy to see True Wilson back. Yeah.

True had a couple nice runs. He had a touchdown run. He had a nice little touchdown run. Shea was out there blocking for him. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm just like, I love what I'm seeing out of Shea right now. I love what I'm seeing out of Shea right now. I love seeing him run the ball a little bit. Shoot, I mean, I think we on Shea right now. I love what I'm seeing on Shea right now. I love seeing him run the ball a little bit.

Shoot, I mean, I think we need to run him more. Like, what we're doing now is what we should have been doing. You realize that some of these games that we've been winning, Shea's had, like, 130 pass yards and, like, two touchdowns. I don't know how long we've been winning. We're basically transitioning into last year. Well, that's what somebody was saying about... Was I just watching this?

Or you said this. About where the O-line is kind of going back to some of their blocking schemes and stuff that worked well for them last year to transition this year. They might just be evolving a little bit. Yeah, when Jim was like, oh yeah, because well for them last year, you know, to transition this year to kind of like, I mean, they might just be evolving a little bit. Yeah, when Jim was like, oh, yeah, because they were struggling last year around the ball. And he's like, you know, my dad called me up and was like, you should run counter.

And he's like, oh, my gosh, we should be running counter. And so now they're starting to pull more guards. It's awesome. Jim's talking to his grandpa on the phone now. You guys remember the counter? Yeah. Oh, my God. Dude, you know who I got to see a little bit yesterday?

It was Luigi Villain. Yeah. Yeah. I love Luigi. I love Luigi. Yeah. He's finally in. He had so many lower body issues, I guess, for like two years.

And now, I guess he's on second team defense now, right? Dude, he looks like... I saw him, I was like, that guy, if I was playing against that guy, scared the shit out of me. When he was getting recruited, we were like, we were hyped about him. He was one of the guys we were pretty excited about. Dude, he was a borderline five-star defensive end.

He's just been hurt. He's just been hurt. And that's where I'm like, dude, this team is just, it's on that cusp, right? Maybe I'm buying into the hype. I don't know but I will I'll shut up

and take my money I'll take some more of that hype please yeah well yeah I mean I don't think we've got anything

else on Michigan unless I mean we saw Ohio State rolled over Wisconsin LSU beat Auburn LSU's the new number one team

in the country love to see Alabama not there dude I'm gonna say for the matchup in two country. LSU, yeah. Love to see Alabama out there. Dude, I'm going to say for the matchup in two weeks, Minnesota and Penn State might be two unbeatens right there in the Big Ten. That is going to be funny. Dude, I looked at Minnesota's – I've got to pull up Minnesota's schedule.

It is the most garbage schedule I've ever seen in my entire life. You're just going to be rowing that boat. Yeah, row the boat. Rowing that boat. Let's go. And I really dislike P.J. Fleck, so let me look this up. Do you remember when we were in school and we were watching that Western game and we just saw P.J. Fleck sprinting down the sideline,

and I was like, what is that? Part of the team. It was just like, oh, man. Let me look this up really quick. Uh-oh. What do you got? Their schedule? Is it just like trash or what?

It is absolute garbage. Hold up. Sorry, it's taking a while for me to get this. P.J. Fletcher, he's so arrogant, and I hate that whole thing that happened. I'm not going to go into that. So, okay, they opened the season up against South Dakota State. They won by seven. They played Fresno State.

They won by three. They played Georgia Southern and won by three. They played Purdue and won by seven. They played Nebraska and killed them. Like, it's Nebraska. And then they beat Rutgers and Maryland. They've played nobody. They've literally played no one.

It's such a bad schedule. I mean, they're ranked number 13 over Michigan, and I feel like we could beat Minnesota by three touchdowns. Right. Oh, dude, if we played Minnesota, we should crush them. Yeah. So, yeah. Penn State's playing next week, so I'm kind of excited to –

honestly, I know that the Big Ten championship thing is out for Michigan already. There's a scenario where it could be back. Ohio State has to lose three times. I was looking at one where they only had to lose twice. But that's where it was kind of confusing me. Oh, that's because the whole like... And then they'd have to lose twice. And then Ohio State has to lose two.

Ohio State has to beat them. And we have to beat Ohio State. Ohio State would have a loss coming into us though, but who are they going to lose to? You know, it's like, there is a scenario. I highly doubt it's going to happen. Yeah.

But there is a scenario where that is a possibility. Sweet. All right. Let's just transfer to the West Division. Yeah. All right. Yeah. Perennial winners every year.

Yeah. What did, what'd you think about Oklahoma? Oof. I mean, their defense Always comes back To bite them in the ass Yeah That's pretty much

The story Yeah I was I was like That's the team That I actually wanted To win the national Championship this year

Yeah I mean they still Have an opportunity Yeah But Like I mean They've still got Baylor on their schedule

Could end up Playing them twice If they make it To the Big 12 title game. But what kind of sucks for them is that Texas has fallen down a friggin' slip and slide, and they're just going down, down, down. So, like, that's not even an impressive win anymore. So it's like it's tough because they don't have a lot of impressive wins on their schedule,

which is, I mean, something like with Minnesota. I mean, they've won, but they don't have any impressive wins. So, like, Minnesota could very easily go undefeated and not even be thought of for the playoff. Yeah, that's true. You know, so, I think, I don't know. I think there's Oklahoma State a chance, but I think they've got to, like, be consistent for the rest of the season. The regular elites are kind of doing their thing at the, you know, top five spots. Yeah, I mean, we'll see what happens, right?

A few more weeks left. But other than that, I mean, I don't really have much more to share. You guys have anything? Go blue. Yep, go blue. Find us on YouTube. Find us on Facebook. Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Twitter.

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