Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - BIG 10 SQUAD - Is Iowa Hawkeyes' Kirk Ferentz On the Hot Seat?

Episode Date: November 14, 2024

Welcome to the Big 10 Squad! In this Week Twelve preview episode, host Craig Shemon of Locked On Big 10 is joined by a panel of experts from Locked On podcasts to preview all the upcoming Big Ten football matchups. With the season heating up, you won’t want to miss these crucial game analyses as teams fight for position!🚀 In This Episode:Game Previews: Dive into the biggest Week Twelve matchups featuring teams like the Illinois Fighting Illini, Indiana Hoosiers, Iowa Hawkeyes, Maryland Terrapins, Michigan Wolverines, Michigan State Spartans, Minnesota Golden Gophers, Nebraska Huskers, Northwestern Wildcats, Ohio State Buckeyes, Oregon Ducks, Penn State Nittany Lions, Purdue Boilermakers, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, UCLA Bruins, USC Trojans, Washington Huskies, and Wisconsin Badgers.Expert Predictions: Get insider commentary and predictions from Locked On hosts as they break down each team’s performance, strategy, and key players.Key Players to Watch: Discover the players who could make a difference and swing the momentum in Week Twelve.Why You Should Tune In: Whether you're a lifelong Big Ten fan or just following the action, this episode will provide the insights and analysis you need to get ready for an intense week of college football.🔔 Don’t forget to subscribe to Big 10 Squad for your weekly previews, expert opinions, and in-depth analysis of all things Big Ten football! Hit the bell icon to get notified whenever a new episode is released.Join the Conversation: We’d love to hear your thoughts and predictions for the upcoming matchups! Drop your comments below.#Big10Squad #Big10Football #LockedOnBig10 #CollegeFootball #WeekTwelvePreview #FootballAnalysis #CraigShemon #LockedOnPodcast #BigTenTeams #NCAA #FootballPredictions #BigTenRoundtable

Well, the Oregon Ducks look to remain perfect at Camp Randall. The Buckeyes, they get to play at Wrigley. Penn State's going to try and keep pace with everybody else. They have Purdue. Let's talk. Let's do it. It's time for the Lockdown Big Ten Squad. You're talking ball with the Big Ten Squad.

From USC to Ohio State, from Michigan to Oregon, from Nebraska to Washington, it's the local experts of the Locked On Podcast Network bringing you scoops, breakdowns, and the most comprehensive preview of the upcoming Big Ten weekend. Know her feelings and thin skin aloud. Squad up. You're part of the Big Ten Squad. Well, welcome aboard. I'm Craig Scheman for Locked On Big Ten. The Ducks are well represented here. Sit back and enjoy, and we're going to shoot

the breeze a little bit as we are winding down the regular season. I'm Craig Schumann, locked on Big Ten. Spencer is locked on everything, including locked on Ducks. Zach Anderson, Yoxmeyer from locked on UCLA. Roman is from locked on Huskies. And we have Trent with an appearance from

locked on Hawkeyes. Today's episode is brought to you by GameTime. Download the GameTime app and create an account. Use the code LOCKEDONCOLLEGE for $20 off your first purchase. Spencer, we'll start with you. You guys are on a roll. You're on the downhill part of the schedule. Just a couple more games left.

Should lock up that Big Ten championship game spot. And, of course, bigger and better things as well with the Natty well within your range. All your goals are right there. Yeah, they are, and the good thing is that November has never seen any chaos ensue in college football, and the number one team always wins every game that they should, and nothing bad ever happens, so I'm completely calm.

Well, that's good. That's good. Yeah, nothing will happen. Well, let's talk about, let's go around the room a little bit here. Zach, locked on UCLA. The Bruins are, what, the third or fourth hottest team in the Big Ten right now, winning three in a row. Yeah, they're doing good. I remember one guy saying the best case scenario, 3-9.

I mean, 2-10. I mean, 3-9. I can't make up my mind. That's the best case scenario. I think he's to my left. Yeah. Is that to my left. Yeah. Is that to your left? I think to your left technically is the Big Ten squad sign.

I always use the panel. Whatever way I'm pointing with all these people that are on here. Yeah. Roman, how about you? Locked on Huskies. Now I got it. Had your first whiteout experience this week? Yeah, we don't need to talk about that game.

That's fine. I'm looking forward to the blackout on Friday when Zach's Bruins come to town. That's where all my focus is at this point in time. It's senior day. One of the really fun things that I'm looking forward to this week is, as Craig, you so so kindly mentioned last week uh and and i'm just gonna throw you under the bus here not not mention anybody else because zach saco is not here but um at that all the the fifth and sixth year seniors that have

gone through not just one not just two but three coaching changes at washington gonna be celebrating some of those guys on friday i think that's going to be really cool. So that's something I'm really looking forward to this weekend. Roman, I saw a great tweet the other day that said three years ago on this platform, Oregon and Washington fans were really arguing who's a better coach between Jimmy Lake and Mario Cristobal. And I just thought about that. Like, yeah, we've leveled up. We've leveled up since then.

Mario is, of course, better than Jimmy Lake. But, I mean, I think both are in a different – Jimmy Lake's calling an NFL defense right now, man. Say what you will. That's not him. Oh, my gosh. That's right. Who is he with?

Atlanta. The only person who'll give him a job, Raheem Morris. I mean, they're not – not going to do anything special there. By the way, Zach, I'd just like to point out that if UCLA loses their final three games, that I will have been one game off with my preseason record prediction. Just one. Are you waffling up to four and eight now?

After the best case scenario was three and nine? I'm just saying, a preseason record prediction being off by one game is essentially getting it right. Yeah, those are plus or minus one when you put those out. Sure. I mean, look, as Josh Pate says, my predictions are never wrong. Officials, players, and coaches just screw them up. That's right.

Or we go with margin of error, right? I mean, we've heard that a lot. Yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly. And I think one game within the margin of errors is OK. I legitimately cannot explain a couple of things. I was scoring 40 points. UCLA is winning football games. What's happening in this conference, Craig? That's exactly you took the words out of my mouth. It's absolutely insane.

And since we haven't heard from Trent yet, who's here with us. Well, first of all, can we can we discuss Trent's frame here? What do we got going on here? He's being held hostage in a warehouse by the villains in Breaking Bad. Yeah, it's a rough go here. When we're doing the squad, it's tough. It's tough for me to make it work. We got five-year-old basketball going on at this time.

So I'm sitting out in the car here giving you guys a little bit of a hit after a very frustrating one at the Rose Bowl. The continued woes for Iowa in the Rose Bowl. They go back years and years. Well before you guys were even born, there is a lot of ineptitude at the Rose Bowl. Regular season, postseason, it doesn't matter. It's been a very frustrating year. This was a year with expectations.

And this was a year for Iowa to break through. You look at the schedule the next couple years, it becomes incredibly difficult. They use their NIL money to bring back a bunch of fifth and sixth-year guys, and it's been a disaster. Six and four with this schedule, it's an embarrassment. It was an embarrassing coaching performance out of the whole staff on Friday night against UCLA. You got run all over.

You got out-physicaled by UCLA. This is trending towards the end of times for Kirk Behrens. It's trending towards the end of times for Iowa football as we know it. This was as bad as it can get, losing in that fashion to UCLA. Yeah, you got run over by a UCLA team. Hold on, hold on. Well, that's – hold on. Trent, when you said this was a frustrating one, I thought you were venting about the five year old basketball game.

You said that in that order. And I thought you were using the squad as an opportunity to be like, gosh, the five year olds just can't get it together. Kids are traveling all over the place. It's absolute lunacy. Spencer, can I interject for one second here i want to give all our listeners across the network a peek behind the curtain of the last time trent graced us with his presence on this show when he hopped on for a couple minutes at five-year-old basketball there's a really loud whistle that we all heard before we got started

and trent was like was that me like where's where's that coming from Is that me? Like, where is that coming from? Like, no, it was my roommate. He's testing on his ref whistle right now. Utah's still complaining. That was good. Can I point out the irony?

That was good. I was just surprised at the quality of that joke, because I am that UCLA has won three games in a row. I want to follow up on what Spencer said about Iowa, because last year they scored like four points a game and won 10 games. This year they scored 40 and we're upset with Kirk Barrett's want to throw them out. I think they're more entertaining to watch, even though their formula is throw for 103 yards, run for 200,

play a little D and win. Do you talk about UCLA or Iowa? Yeah, it's the same. I it's and it can work it can work but you got to get all the breaks i mean you have to thread the needle perfectly i was able to do that last year against a joke of a schedule and they're doing those 40 points a game at home they're doing them against sorry roman washington wisconsin we're not talking about elite level squads by any means you're taking on middling teams. You're doing it at home.

That is not a conversation. Again, this was supposed to be the year. The offense has made improvements, and this is all you can muster. This is why it's so difficult. And even with the improvements offensively, you take one small step back defensively, you're getting what you're getting right now, a very average team, a decent team at home and below average certainly on the road all right well fair enough uh i know spencer before i think you're

only i can't keep track of who's staying and who's going but look hit me up with the wisconsin game you're going into camp randall here on uh on saturday night nbc big 10 um what are your thoughts on that game and Wisconsin? Yeah, I'm curious to see if Oregon can get out of Oregon's own way. They committed 12 penalties last week against Maryland, six of which led to Terrapin first downs. And if you parsed it out, probably led to 10 points for Maryland that they wouldn't have otherwise put on the scoreboard.

So if they can clean that up, they can win by even more than 21 points, which is what they won by against Maryland last week. But fortunately for the Ducks, that's where they are at right now, is 12 penalties, sloppy offensive play, missing a starting guard, and their star wide receiver in Tez Johnson win by 21 points. Yeah. It's a good time in Eugene right now. They have high class problems for the moment.

Yeah, getting it dialed in. They're good to go. Still number one. Who else is leaving me next segment? I got to get a prediction coming in. I can't keep track of you. Is it Trent? Okay.

Trent, you're on a bye. I'm out of here, too. You're not going to lose as well. All right. My prediction is pain. Okay. Well, you got a week to rest and take care with the bye we'll continue as we look ahead into this weekend right here as the squad continues

fan duel makes watching games a lot more fun you can get ready to tackle nfl action with fan duel america's number one sports book uh because right now new customers can bet five dollars and get 150 in bonus bets if you win. The FanDuel Sportsbook gives you everything you need to place live bets on the NFL all in one place. So when you get a hunch in the middle of the game and you go to the same place you put your bets in, just visit FanDuel.com and join today. You'll get started with $150 in bonus bets if you win your first $5 bet. That's Fanduel.com. Never waste a hunch and make every moment more with Fanduel,

an official sportsbook partner of the NFL. Once again, that is at Fanduel.com. As we continue here on the squad, oh, we got big pictures now. We're down to Zach and Roma. Thank you very much. West Coast version of the Big Ten as we move into the weekend. All right, guys. You know, it's fitting you guys play each other here this weekend.

We've got Friday night under the lights. Let's break it down a little bit here. It's like the old Pac-12 after dark, if you will, Big Ten style. Let's start with you, Zach. Your thoughts on this game on Friday night. I guess the big thing is UCLA has been one of the better run defenses in the country which is surprising after all they lost last year washington likes to throw it a little bit more tell me if i'm wrong roman but they'll throw it a little bit more than say iowa will and ironically this might be one of

the toughest games remaining for ucla right i'm not sure what what USC poses, right? Whether they're doing recruiting violations, where Mark's doing, who knows what they're going to do. Fresno State, who knows? Washington, with their probably last true chance at a sixth win, and this is a game UCLA would love to have to get to that easier path to six wins for a bowl. Road game, Friday night, they're feeling good, but a team that throws the ball could spell a little bit more trouble

for the Bruins than the last three games have. I, Zach, I think hit the nail on the head there where, you know, I talked about some of the off field stuff that's going on there, where it's going to be a blackout at senior night, all that other stuff is going on. But, yeah, absolutely. Where, you know, I'm now Spencer's gone. I'm glad we don't have to talk about Oregon as much. But I start to mention them because that's who Washington's only other game on the schedule is after UCLA. And, you know, I'm not going to get into that game because I don't have to think about it for another couple of weeks, which is great. But when I when I look at it, yeah, you're absolutely right, Zach.

This is going to be a really great shot for Washington to become bowl eligible, which is so important for the future of this program. Jed Fish talked on Monday and we talked about it over on Lockdown Huskies. really great shot for Washington to become bowl eligible, which is so important for the future of this program. Jed fish talked on Monday and we talked about it over on lockdown Huskies. One of the first things he said was, Hey, I've got a, you know, really, really high chance. He put it at 90% that Jonah Coleman returns to 2025 and everything, everything with the messaging this year has been, we're building, we're building, we're building.

And with the full transfer portal with the full off season, some of the guys that are coming in from the high school class, it really does feel like 2025 can be a much, much more kind year for the Huskies. And maybe they'll get on Craig's good side, which would also be wonderful. But with all of that to say, a huge part of that is getting those 15 extra practices for a bowl game, if it is the LA Bowl, whatever it might be. That is so important. And just, it would mean so much to, I know, these older guys, but these young guys as well.

I think that's a good point. Roman, I do think the Huskies are a good football team, but they are two different teams. Road team, not so good. Home team, pretty formidable. Can you put your finger on it, what it is? I know it was the kicking game. I remember the Rutgers game just kept missing kicks, but can you put your finger on what,

why they struggle on the road? It's, it's been a little bit of everything. I think that's the frustrating part where I can all take it all the way back to a neutral site game against Washington state. It was shoot yourself in the foot with 16 penalties in that game. And Craig, you mentioned the kicking game at Rutgers. And then you go to Iowa, you get out physical, you go to Indiana, you have a couple of costly turnovers in the wrong spot. And then Penn state is Penn state. They're just a good football team this year. And they ran right through it. So it's been a little bit of everything, but it it's, it's one of the things that, you know, at the beginning of the season, I felt, you know, somewhere in the eight and four ballpark was a realistic expectation for this team because of all the talent.

But at different points this year, it's looked like exactly what it is, which is just hard to think about coming off of a 14 and one season where you were in the national championship. And that's a football team that has 21 new starters, the majority of whom weren't even there for spring practice. A lot of those guys were not there.

So the only time they had together was through the summer and into the fall. And then the first couple of games at home where you get comfortable, you do all that sort of stuff. And you have to go to some of these other environments. And it just hasn't looked the same. Zach, I think the thing that I took out of the win over Iowa that I thought was kind of cool, actually, after all the struggles,

you got a head coach, Deshaun Foster, former, former running back, uh, your running back, I believe got his first hundred yard rushing game of the season. And then you shut down a great running back in Caleb Johnson with Iowa. I mean, that was, it was a running back centric game plan and it worked and it got the win. I thought that was a cool sub story. Yeah, it it's pretty cool it's the first home win for deshaun foster all those games have come on the road funny enough uh roman you guys have to keep this up ucla's played in five straight sellouts on the road so even though yeah yeah they're not afraid of a cool atmosphere when it comes to the

run game all i've been hoping for for the ucla run games that they get to like 125 yards and that's beyond what they've done the entire season. And if they kept Iowa too close to that number, it'd be a good game. Well, the Bruins blew right past that number offensively. They kept Iowa and Caleb Johnson well below that. Whatever quarterback Iowa seemed to go down the depth chart after, I think, the injury to Sullivan and how poorly he performed before that UCLA proved they are still a physical defense and that those numbers yards per carry, the rushing rushing yards per game. Those are serious things.

I'm not sure they'll play a big time factor necessarily in this game. If Washington wants to throw the ball 50 times, that might lead them more to victory in this game. But Hey, if both these programs go to a bowl game, that's huge for first year coaches enrollment. Another maybe you should buy an oregon duck pillow rip it on the air when you do that crossover with spencer just rip it open or mail it to him with the stuffing pulled out right that would be something that he can open on the air i i like both these ideas i think this is fantastic kind of like you know the the old godfather horse's head sort of thing i i think

you're you're on the right track there maybe Maybe a duck, you know, like a stuffed puddles or whatever. There are a lot of different ways we can go there. But, Zach, I really like where you're going with this, where the matchup, now that you talk a little bit more about it, one matchup that I'm really intrigued to see is that UCLA rushing offense versus Washington's rushing defense, where they really struggled against Caleb Johnson. They struggled against Penn State this past week.

Indiana ran right through them, where that's been the issue where, you know, a couple of it is because they lost a bunch of guys last year or a couple of guys retired, a couple went to the draft. And then throughout the course of the season, Washington's best defensive tackle, Javon Parker, suffered a torn Achilles against Rutgers. And then since that point, the Huskies haven't necessarily had a stellar run defense outside of, I want to say the Michigan game game where they look really good and did a great job against Cleo Mullings, especially, but the more I look at it,

the more I say, all right, how are you going to find a way to stop the run Washington is a great defensive coordinator and Steve Belichick, but it seems like the personnel isn't quite there yet. And when, you know, I talked a little bit earlier about the transfer portal, all that sort of stuff. That's the position. I think they need to hit the hardest this off season. So that's a matchup I'm gonna be watching really closely on friday i want to get both of your

thoughts on your quarterback situation zach we'll start with you ethan garber's struggled early they got hurt and then since he came back from the injury he's been he's been pretty good uh what's your assessment of the quarterback position at ucla yeah it was pretty good until he turned it over three times against iowa right pick drive the field, ugly pick when they should have ran the ball, and then fumbles the ball out of the end zone. So it was pretty ugly in the first half. And despite all that, UCLA found a way to win. And I think what Eric Biennemi has found as the offensive coordinator,

I think that's more the big switch there than it is Garbers, because Garbers is who he is. If you call the right plays, you protect him, he can do better than most, but then there might be an ugly game like you had against Iowa. There's no denying that. But I've been in the Garber's camp for the majority of the season, and I think he's just, until the Iowa game, limited the mistakes and just been a much better play calling, much better design of swinging

and hitting on the run game. And then last game, when you have a running game that's getting 200 yards that takes the pressure off his shoulders and if he makes a mistake just know they can do something else so he's done a little bit better but the clear better quarterback i think is uh up in seattle for this weekend's game well let's talk about roman because i um i'm not typically a big fan of two quarterback systems or change of pace guys but i actually am with you guys and i actually think they should do it a little more to change the percentages a little bit what do you think so first of all shout out to ethan garbers former husky every quarterback

that will play in this game has been in purple and gold at one point so i'd love to see but i craig i like where you're going with this where where, you know, Jed Fish backed Will Rogers as a starter. He said that's not anything that's changing. But I'm so high on everything Devon Williams does. He is such a talented kid. And it looks like we're going to see somewhere between 15 to 20 snaps for him in this game, where that's what Jed kind of alluded to on Monday, said it would be similar to other, you know, home games against Michigan, against USC, where everything they've been doing with him is,

it's all very tactical this season. It's all to prepare him to take the reins next year and go out at full throttle. So, Craig, I like where you're going with this because the more we see of DeMond, the better he's going to be in the future. Where Jed was like, yeah, it was great that, obviously it's not great that I go down 28

after the first half, but it's great that we were able to get demand as many snaps as we did. Played a career high 32 and he looked solid for the most part against a really good pass rush that got to him in the fourth quarter behind an offensive line that's still piecing things together. But the more we see from demand in every game this season, the just, he continues to build and keep continues to be put out there in different situations and just is asked to do more and more and more. It's only going to benefit him in the long run. So I think, you know, especially that's one of the reasons getting bowl eligible is so critical

where I feel that if Washington is able to get to a bowl game, we might go as far to see, you know, something like split drives or split quarters or whatever it is. We're going to find a way to see more demand Williams. If Washington get that sixth win and it starts by putting them in there to change the pace maybe throw a couple of passes and find ways to keep ucla off balance in this game yeah i like it all right guys on your game let's get a final prediction and score if you don't mind zach what how he's gonna be high scoring low scoring what

do you think well i've done this thing in my show locked on ucla i've invoked the bet against ucla rules so every game i bet against them they're now 3-0 after choosing to beat Minnesota. So I will do the same here. UCLA fans, I'm still confident, but this is the toughest game remaining. And that includes the USC game. This is the toughest game remaining. This is their first road night game of the year. So that's something to take in consideration.

The atmosphere, no slight to the fans up in Seattle. They've seen it literally all year so that there's going to be no atmosphere they've been untested i think washington wins this 24 21 and invoked the bet against ucla rule and it's been working roman how do you see it going well i am the world's biggest jinx so i usually refrain from making predictions of any kind. But what I do love is I love giving bold predictions. So, Craig, I'm going to piggyback off your Demond Williams take there.

And I'm going to say we see 18 snaps from Demond Williams. I think we're going to see him score a touchdown running. And I think he's going to throw a touchdown in this game. And I'm just going to say for my prediction part of it that I agree with Zach. That's where I'll go with that. All right. We will take a quick look at the remaining games with the guys here around the Big Ten as the squad continues.

Stay with us. I want to tell you about the Game Time app. Put it on your device, your phone. You want tickets to an event, it's right there on your phone. And it's not just sports. It's everything, concerts, comedy shows, everything. No surprise pricing, none of that. Everything right there up in front of you.

My favorite part about Game Time when you get tickets there is it shows you the view of the seat for the ticket you're about to buy. So check that out at Game Time. And again, with their lowest price guarantee, GameTime will credit you 110% of the difference if you find a different price. Take the guesswork out of buying tickets with GameTime Picks. Download the GameTime app, create an account, use the code LOCKDOWNCOLLEGE for $20 off your first purchase.

Terms apply. Again, create an account and redeem code LOCKDOWNCOLLEGE. That's L-O-C-K-E-D-O-N-C-O-L-L-E-G-E for $20 off. Download GameTime today. What time is it? GameTime. All right, back on Lockdown Big Ten, the squad version here, guys. We talked about your game, UCLA-Washington Friday night.

Saturday, we got Ohio State's taking on Northwestern. That shouldn't be a problem for the Buckeyes. The coolest part of that game, it's at Wrigley Field, right? And I think it's Northwestern's homecoming, which is odd to have Ohio State. Do they have a Go Cubs Go chant break out in the middle of that game? They might. They might do that.

That's a good idea. And then, in fact, you know, Big Ten on Fox, or the Big Noon kickoff at Fox, they're going to the Big 12 this weekend because, I mean, we've got Ohio State, Northwestern at noon. At 2-3, we've got Michigan State and Illinois. Both of those teams are kind of falling off a little bit. And then I don't know who does the scheduling in the Big Ten office for Purdue,

but they had Ohio State last week. Now they've got Penn State. How big is that blowout going to be? They better get the the blowout material ready for the second half of that broadcast huh oh i mean after having to watch penn state that is a team that is coming off that ohio state loss angry and they're gonna push in every way and shape and form especially with the indiana ohio state matchup coming up pretty quickly here to try to find a way to make it into the big 10 championship i predicted that they would be in the

big 10 championship before the season started. I did say they'd play Ohio state. So, you know, we'll, we'll see how that goes over the next couple of weeks, but I was really impressed with that defense. And Abdul Carter is just somebody who the more I watch him, the more I like him. And I think he's gonna be a top 10 pick come this next spring. Yeah. Penn state Purdue. It'd be, it'll be interesting. It'd be ugly.

It was that Ohio state Penn state, and then a couple of weeks, indiana so that's three of the toughest games in your last four weeks of the season that's a brutal ending stretch for an already one and eight purdue team who most on the show thought would get their first big 10 win that over ucla you know in terms of who would get the race there faster just just saying ucla is doing just fine good job good job actually the most interesting game on the board might be the Nebraska USC game. That's a four o'clock Eastern on Fox. And it's interesting because both teams had high expectations.

Both teams are kind of stuck in a rut. What do you guys think that Matt rule brought in Dana Holgerson in to be a consultant. And then three days later, he's the offensive coordinator. What'd you guys think about that? That I, I was, I remember saying that it was like oh all right this this is certainly something that's happened I I do want to say one thing though just in in terms of this game this is now I I feel like I said this last week as well now two years in a row where Washington has forced major changes at USC and Zach not only is the guy, but as somebody who grew up in L.A. myself,

I think it's absolutely fantastic that we get to see this after, you know, getting Alex Grinch fired last year, now forcing a quarterback change. I think that's really funny. I honestly think Nebraska can find a way to win big in this game. I was not very impressed with USC outside of Woody Marks, where I love Woody Marks. I think Zachariah Branch is really talented. But this USC team is not where it needs to be right now. Yeah. Zach?

Well, I'd like to see Nebraska win. And then if USC has to come to UCLA and the loser is eliminated potentially from bowl eligibility and it's at the Rose Bowl to keep USC from playing in a bowl, barring the five and seven nonsense that we sometimes see with all those extra bowl games, that would be dope. so if Nebraska takes care of business that'd be something I think it'll be pretty close I think we've got four pretty even matchups this week they're not involving top teams in the big 10 but this is one of them and the Cornhuskers can do it but you know if it's a

one score game you have to take USC because Nebraska one score game you just can't choose them to win that's just my philosophy we got ruckers at maryland at least those two teams won't have to travel all the way across the country a fairly regional game six o'clock eastern on fs1 and then as we go uh we talked about when spencer was here the number one ducks taking on wisconsin and he kind of alluded foreshadowed a little bit hey the number one team never gets knocked off in a game in november he was tongue-in-cheek obviously Could this be in? I don't know that Wisconsin has enough firepower, but Camp Randall is a tough place to play. Guys, close me out on your thoughts on this game. Zach, what do you think? I think Spencer sounds like a script writer for the NFL.

I just hope it doesn't involve a block of a field goal to get the Chiefs to victory for Oregon in this case, right? That equivalent in this game. It'd be interesting to see if Wisconsin can give them a game. I'm not sure that's entirely the case considering Alabama blew out Wisconsin earlier. I think Oregon, if their heads are focused, they'll dominate. But, you know, they have lapses for a quarter or many plays throughout the game, which maybe that happens once or maybe they'll happen against Washington in a couple weeks. We'll see how that goes. If they do, maybe it'll be fun in a late-night kickoff. I just don't see that happening. Roman, final thought.

Oh, well, I mean, I'm never going to say that I'm rooting for Oregon to win a game. Never. I don't care. That's never something that's going to happen. But I will say, if all that energy, that positivity, if they want to go in there, find a way to get a big win, and then they're riding this high and say, oh oh washington whatever the record may be after friday night

oh that's that's who we got have to beat to be 12 and oh they get overconfident they find a way to you know maybe maybe a couple things go wrong here and there i'm sure that over on the lockdown duck channel they'll be like oh he's delusional because you know of course the washington guy saying that sort of thing. I don't care. I'd love to see something like that happen because there's nothing that would bring me more joy in what has been an up and down season for Washington than Oregon just finding a way to just let it slip through their fingers, as Zach knows all too well,

as us Pac-12 guys do. Yeah. All right. To our audience, Zach at Lockdown UCLA UCLA and Roman at Locked On Huskies, subscribe and follow them if you don't already. We cover all your favorite teams here around the Big Ten every day throughout the season. And don't forget, I got you covered the entire conference

with Locked On Big Ten. I'm Craig Shaman. We're all part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day.