Locked On Hawkeyes - Daily Podcast On Iowa Hawkeyes Football & Basketball - Big 10 Week One Predictions, Iowa Hawkeyes Season Debut without Ferentz - Big Ten Squad

Episode Date: August 29, 2024

Join host Craig Shemon from Locked On Big 10 for the premier episode of Big 10 Squad, your ultimate roundtable podcast dedicated to everything Big Ten football! In this week's episode, Craig is joined by a panel of experts from Locked On podcasts to break down all the latest news, matchups, and storylines from the Big Ten Conference.🚀 What to Expect:In-Depth Analysis: Get insider insights on key games and strategies as we preview the season ahead.Expert Opinions: Hear from Locked On hosts covering 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.Predictions and Hot Takes: Find out who the panel thinks will rise and fall in the Big Ten this season.Whether you're a die-hard fan or new to Big Ten football, Big 10 Squad is your go-to source for comprehensive coverage and expert commentary. Don't miss out on the latest buzz and analysis from the heart of the conference!🔔 Subscribe to our channel for weekly episodes and stay updated on all things Big Ten! Hit the bell icon to get notified when new episodes drop.Join the conversation: Drop your thoughts, predictions, and favorite moments from this episode in the comments below!#Big10Squad #Big10Football #LockedOnBig10 #CollegeFootball #Big10Roundtable #FootballAnalysis #BigTen #NCAA #CraigShemon #LockedOnPodcast #BigTenPreview #FootballPredictions

No more fooling around. It's game week. It's time to talk actual football here. For example, can Penn State, can they prove that they belong with the upper echelon and get into the playoffs and represent the Big Ten? It's going to be a big opening week against West Virginia. I think a tough game on the road. What's the biggest storyline for you and your favorite Big Ten team? It's time to get the Big Ten squad together. You are locked on Big Ten, your daily podcast on the Big Ten Conference. Part of the Locked On Podcast Network, your team every day. Welcome to the Big Ten Conference squad.

All right, sit back, grab a beverage, enjoy, and get ready for the upcoming college football season in the Big Ten. I'm Craig Scheman, host of Locked On Big Ten. And today our program is brought to you by 5-Hour Energy. 5-Hour Energy fixes tired fast with zero sugar and a convenient portable size. It's the perfect pick-me-up for getting stuff done. Go to 5hourenergy.com and use the promo code LOCKEDONCFB to receive 20% off your order. This offer is only valid until September 30th on one order

and cannot be used with other promotions. Go to 5hourenergy.com today. All right, let me introduce you to some of the members of the squad. We have Spencer McLaughlin from Lockdown Ducks, Matt Sheehan from Lockdown Spartans, Roman Tomashov from Lockdown Huskies, Jacob Goins from Lockdown Hoosiers, Jay Stevens from Lockdown Buckeyes.

And we have Zach Anderson, Yosemite from Lockdown UCLA. Gentlemen, how are you today? Ready for football. Let's do it. I am very ready. Let's get started here. And I want to get some predictions here because these first games for a lot of our teams, let's face it, they might, I don't want to say easy wins, but they might be blow-off games.

I'm not blow-off games. They may win rather easily in a lot of cases. I know Ohio State, Jay, is a 49-and-a-half-point favorite. So I'll start with you, though, Spencer, in Oregon. Welcome to the Big Ten. What is the first thing you're looking for this weekend? Taking on Idaho, what are you going to get out of this game? How Dylan Gabriel looks in a Will Stein offense compared to Bo Nix.

Is it going to be the best measuring stick going up against the Vandals? No. But is it the worst FCS program you could go up against? Also no. They were in the FCS quarterfinals a season ago. The Kibbe Dome is kind of lit if people did not know. But I think that for Oregon, that's the biggest question I have offensively. And I expect Dylan Gabriel to have

the best statistical season of his career. I think he pushes for a 4,000 yard campaign, accounts for probably around 40 touchdowns or so, and keeps the interceptions under five and completes close to 70% of his passes. And this will be the first step towards accomplishing those sorts of numbers to having that sort of season and how he looks in the offense compared to what it was last year with Bo Nix. You have a lot of the same players on the O-line, tight end room, receiving room. You have the same offensive coordinator, same head coach. You just have a different quarterback.

So how does that look? I have confidence because I've seen everything else. I haven't seen Dylan Gabriel yet. Really excited to see how he thrives. All right, you're predicting a win, a blowout win? Yeah, I think that's going to be a comfortable Saturday afternoon at Autzen. All right, very good. Let's talk some Michigan State football.

Matt, what are you expecting? What is your prediction for weekend number one? And by the way, you guys seem to like to start on Friday nights, Friday night lights almost every year. Absolutely. Get it out of the way. You actually get to enjoy all the other games on Saturday, Sunday, Monday. It's like having the first game of March Madness. You know, you get the puckering feeling out right off the bat. Now you can enjoy the actual weekend as God intended. So what I'm predicting here is something that Michigan State fans haven't done for the better part of 11 months. We're going to smile. We're going to smile on Friday because I

think it's going to be a good win here for Michigan State. Yes, Florida Atlantic. It's not the Florida Atlantic that we used to know with Lane Kiffin. They're replacing a ton of players, especially on that offensive side of the ball. Nine new starters. But MS MSU they got some new faces too especially on that offensive line two strong transfers Tanner Miller Luke Newman need to see them perform against a pretty solid FAU front again by and large not a fantastic team but still six returning starters to that front six of the owls so this is gonna be a good test early on against a group of five teams so I expect a smile a win and hopefully some good offensive line play so we can continue to smile throughout the rest of the season,

unlike last year. All right. Roman from Lockdown Huskies, we're going to have to stay up late for this one against Weber State. What is your prediction? I think we're going to see a really well-coached team on both sides of the ball. The number one thing that I'm watching for with 20 new 20 new starters it's it's a tired you know conversation point with husky fans now where they just want to see the team on the field and i think with

jed fish's offense with steve belichick's defense we're going to see a really well coached squad on both sides of the ball that's going to score some points going to generate some turnovers and be a lot better than than some people think all right, Jacob, from lockdown to Hoosiers, Florida National. Kurt Cignetti is going to win his first game ever as head coach of the Hoosiers, right? Absolutely, yes. He will win the first game. I want to see fans show up, fans buy in the same way that the entire university has done. And, yeah, he's going to win game one.

I'm not going to say it's going to be easier to look pretty while they do they do it but they are gonna win game one and possibly game two before they open up with ucla in the big ten all right and uh you know i know i think curtis rourke is gonna start at quarterback by the way what's the skinny on that tyler cherry and uh from center grove the freshman how's he coming along he's good he he's gonna be you know in the backup role and he's got a lot to learn the talent is there but you got a guy in curtis rourke who's played a lot of college football who's been playing for going on six years now so he'll be the starter but tyler cherry could be the future here in blue all right so indiana florida international and michigan state with florida atlantic i tell you i live in florida i get those guys mixed up all the time

and we got them in the same segment talking about it's crazy. All right, Buckeyes, this is supposed to be the season. I did a piece on lockdown Big Ten this week. Best team money can buy. And I meant that as a compliment that used to indicate other things under the table. But now the $20 million roster, Jay, a 49-point favorite in your game here this weekend. What do you think against Akron? Ohio State will do what Ohio State should do and win big, but I'm mainly watching two things.

One, Will Howard, we know he can move the ball with his legs. Has he improved as a passer? Because I can get the one knock on his game, and I'm watching that to see how he throws the ball against Akron. But also, the Buckeyes defense, this defense is so good that they can open the season up with a shutout. I don't know if that's going to happen, but I want to see how hot the Buckeyes defense is, maybe numerous three and outs there in the first quarter.

Will Howard's going to be the starter. At what point will we see a little Julian saying in a 49-point blowout, maybe? Probably. My gut tells me the Buckeyes will probably use three quarterbacks if the game goes like we think. However, it starts, but then I wouldn't be shocked. All right. Very good. Zach, UCLA, welcome to the Big Ten as well. What are your thoughts on this this opening round game? Any predictions for you for the Bruins this weekend?

Two things to look out for the offensive line. Can they protect Ethan Garbers? I'm not sure Hawaii will put up much of a fight but if they struggle uh-oh big 10 play will be pretty bad for the bruins and then last year's strength the d-line they're trying to replace that this year so can they generate pressure with their d-line against the hawaii rainbow warrior team that didn't look all too good against delaware state in their opener you don't get to travel for that game do you i mean haw, Hawaii's a sweet spot. It's all right. That complex is a little small for my takes compared to what it used to be

at Aloha Stadium. But, you know, there's plenty of awesome trips. Can't wait for all the other ones later this year. I mentioned this earlier last week in our Big Ten preview. You got Jacob at Indiana. I'm an Indiana grad, and we're counting this as a Rose Bowl appearance in week three against UCLA when Indiana comes. Yeah, that counts.

Hey, real quick, I haven't had a chance to talk to you before. How big of a blow is it losing your defensive coordinator to USC across town? That was pretty brutal. I think one of the good things Chip Kelly was able to do before he left was find Danton Lynn. And then he left, Danton left, and everybody thinks everything's going crazy. Ikaika Molloy is an experienced, somewhat defensive coordinator.

There are some talented linebackers. And with Ikaika Molloy being in the room last year, I think that'll be fine. But we'll only find out in week one and the weeks beyond to how big of a loss it is or is not. Well, I can't wait. We get these games going and a lot of teams to keep track of in the Big Ten. We're going to take a deeper look into Penn State. They may have a tough game against West Virginia, certainly a respectable opponent and a road game coming up.

And can USC start its Big Ten play, even though it's taking on an SEC team, it's going to represent the Big Ten by taking on LSU on national TV on Sunday night. How will they do? We'll do that with the Big Ten squad. Talking more football next. And five-hour energy. I love this product. Have you ever been driving down the road late at night, a little bleary-eyed,

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zach we'll talk about the nittany lions first. Big game on the road, West Virginia. I think this is a respectable opponent on the road, which may make it a little tougher. Any concern on your part for this game? Not a concern that Penn State wouldn't win. I think West Virginia is a respectable opponent. They're picked to contend for the Big 12 Conference. Do I think West Virginia can make this close?

Yeah, absolutely. But as far as Penn State losing this game, being on upset alert, not really, no. All right, and how's Drew Eller looking? Everything good so far? Look, he had a great year last year. It could be better, I think, more aggressive. What do you see? We see a confident Drew Eller,, a more confident Drew Aller,

because that was really the issue. He has the arm talent, pretty good decision maker from what we see over here. Again, only two interceptions and had one. And you look at what Pro Football Focus said about how, you know, turnover, turnover worthy throws. Bo Nix, Spencer from Locked on Ducks would appreciate that. Bo Nix was number one in that category. Drew Aller was number two in terms of the least turnover worthy throws. So Drew Aller just needed, I think, a little more confidence. And you have a coordinator to do that

with Andy Kotelnicki, and he's going to run the football a little more too. So I think that's just going to help at least keep defenses honest with Drew Adler, the dual threat quarterback, if you can believe that. Trent Condon from Lockdown Hawkeyes. Every time I see you're in a car, you're always on a go. You're going the extra mile literally to be on this program. Thank you very much for doing that. And by the way, good acoustics inside a car, right? Yeah, I think so.

I think we're in good shape here. And now we're just awaiting week one minus Kurt Ferentz. And for the first time since 1978 i was negative two at the time neither hayden fry or kirk ferentz will be on the sideline this weekend you know and it's very interesting uh because we all as a conference we all saw what happened to michigan three games beginning of the season three games end of the season there's still stuff going on at iowa was like they were informative infraction kirk ferentz got in front of a microphone the next day

apologized it won't happen again he's gonna sit out game one it's over it's it's quite different isn't it it absolutely is because there's an actual adult here it's not somebody making excuses it's not somebody that is sitting there whining and complaining it is a real adult in the room and kirk ferentz that made a mistake admitted it and then went out and actually served the penalty not like those idiots up in michigan not like the other people it is somebody that actually did the thing that you're supposed to do yes i'm talking to the wolverine fans out there matt at black dot spartan you're enjoying this a little too much, aren't you? No, this is not. When someone's preaching the truth, you can only stand up and clap.

That's really all we got. But no, I was almost confused. I was like, I thought you just screamed cheeseburger at each other until the suspension is even greater than what it was going to be originally. And then you just deny that anything even happened after the fact. That's what I read in the handbook. So I don't what kind of you guys got down there but i kind of like the speed of that one trent so it's great that it's great that this came up i literally just got done watching the connor stallions documentary fascinating watch fascinating watch yeah lockdown wolverine's got a ton of air time yeah yes he did that was great yes he did it was great

that was that was fabulous. That was another well done. All right, Trent, give me a prediction, though. Illinois State, what kind of game? Do we just automatically take the under on all Iowa games again this year? What do you predict for this weekend? Oh, absolutely, yeah. I mean, it's the lock of the century.

It was the lock of the last eight games. And, no, we get a somewhat healthy Cade McNamara coming back after his injury-plagued season a year ago. Yeah, the under is the play. This defense is going to be elite once again for Iowa. The offense is going to have issues, and it is going to be a coasting into 27-3 type of victory. 24-0, maybe 31-3. But yeah, the under is always the play in this one.

I think most importantly, does Cade McNamara look close to 100%? And not only that, trying to shake off the rust after basically losing the last two seasons because of injury, how does he bounce back and how does he look on Saturday? I thought real quick, I thought Brendan Sullivan left Northwestern after the spring game was a surprise to everybody and you guys needed another quarterback. I think he went in there with the mind thinking, I might be able to win the starting job this year, even though he's got two years of eligibility and everybody's thinking next year. What do you think? Is Brendan Sullivan good enough to take that job away?

I think he could be if McNamara really does struggle and the rust is still there. Here's the thing that I believe about this. If I was going to hit the heights of contending for a college football playoff berth, get to a 10-2 type of season, I believe Cade McNamara is the guy that can get there. Sullivan is a nice quarterback, and he can get them to an 8 and 4 type of season. If they're going to hit those heights, though, they need Cade McNamara to be that quarterback, to be the guy that we saw three years ago at Michigan. That's the only way Iowa's going to be a double-digit win team. I want to get all your predictions round-robin style, if you will.

Sunday night, the Big Ten is represented by USC. It still sounds a little weird to say. Going to take on LSU, Big Ten-SEC matchup on national TV. Zach, locked on UCLA. You maybe know USC the best out of the bunch of us. How is that game going to go? I personally, I'm predicting a shootout. Neither of them play much defense.

I think this is going to be a high-scoring game, but who wins it? What do you think? Well, if Lincoln Riley finally found a defensive coordinator to stick, maybe it'll do something. Both teams, I think, changing quarterbacks. Which quarterback is more week one ready? I really don't want to choose USC. I might go with them week one against everything.

We'll go 28-21 and just appease some teams across town. All right, let me pop up to Spencer since you also represent the old Pac-12 guard now in the Big Ten. USC versus LSU. What do you think? I got the Trojans. I have liked the Trojans for a while. Oddly similar teams here.

Third-year high-profile head coaches who came from big schools. Changing from Heisman-winning quarterbacks. Change your defensive staff because it was a complete mess, but it still should be positive offensive situations in both Baton Rouge and Los Angeles. I've got the Trojans winning this game. I think it is a 34-28 affair. And I think that Lincoln Riley gets maybe the biggest win

that he can get early in the year that he could reasonably get early in the year to silence the critics 38 24 that's uh that's 34 28 34 28 oh god it's still a defensive battle it's a slug fest zach saco uh you're neutral on this uh give me an opinion who do you think wins that game sunday night i neutral, but Penn State does play USC at some point. So this is a good opportunity to at least get an early scouting report of just how they handle a brand new opponent in this case. I like a shootout because you have Miller Moss versus Garrett Nussmeier, and you have two very offensive heavy teams, and the LSU just kind of keeps reloading at wide receiver. So I will take the Tigers in this case because I think DeAnton Lynn's defense won't settle in until the middle of the season there. I'll go 38-35 LSU over USC.

All right, Trent, how about a prediction from the Hawkeyes on the Sunday night game? Well, I went over to my FanDuel account and I threw a couple bucks down on Mason Miller to win the Heisman. So let's kick it off here. USC 31-24. They get the victory and Mason on his way. 40-1 to win the Heisman Trophy here in 2024. Very nice. Matt, locked on Spartans.

You get the last word. What do you predict Sunday? Defensive deadlock. I think it's going to be LSU 38, USC 31. Look, what I like about LSU, they're bringing back four-star offensive linemen. Like that just pays dividends, especially early in college football. We all saw that in week zero with Georgia Tech. My God, they had their way with Florida State.

So LSU, yeah, we all know that it's guns a blazing in the pass game. I can see them making some hay in the run game. That can be the difference here. All right. That is awesome, guys. Love the predictions. Love the takes on all that. Coming up, we're going to talk a little more Ohio State, Buckeyes, Iowa,

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goings is back from lockdown Hoosiers, Roman Tomashoff from lockdown Huskies and Jay Stevens from lockdown Buckeyes rejoining us here. And Roman, let's, let's talk a little bit more about the Washington Huskies. You know, when we spoke last week,

I still think you guys are like the mystery team. And, you know, Jed Fish, he comes in here, you know, in Arizona, he took over a team that was broken, built them, and left the cupboard full. They're a ranked team this year. What do you left behind? And I guess that's his reputation. That's what's appealing to Washington is he can come in there and it's hard to say

rebuild a team that went to a national championship last year, but they are kind of starting over. Yeah, that's one of the most interesting things about this team, Craig, where the more I look at it, it's there are so many new starters that are coming in. Washington fans, like I said earlier, are tired of the whole, you know, 20 new starters on this on this roster sort of thing. But when you look around, this is a really really really exciting team in a lot of different ways when you look at some of the guys that Jed Fish brought with him whether it be running back Jonah Coleman cornerback Efficience Prysock there are some really talented players all over this roster and I think one of the most important things when you think about what Jed Fish can do for a program you think about the coaching staff that he brought with him where he brought seven of his assistants from Arizona he hired two of the remaining three positions he needed to fill from the New England Patriots,

including defensive coordinator Steve Belichick. And the last guy he hired was Robert Bala, who was Dick Saban's linebackers coach last year. So he's put together a really fun coaching staff that is in a really great position to, in the first year in the Big Ten, just, it still is weird to say rebuild, but rebuild this roster. Since you were in the Pac-12, give me your assessment of Southern Cal and how you think they'll do on national TV against LSU on Sunday. I'm a huge Zachariah Branch fan. I love watching that kid play. But I'm also a really big fan of what this LSU offense is going to be able to do. I do have the Trojans dropping that game. that game give me give me 31 28 just to differ a

little bit on what spencer's doing up there but i i think that's going to be a really fun game i think we're we're going to see a really big year from zachariah branch and i think he he could lead the whole nation receptions if i'm being really honest jay stevens from lockdown buckeyes the expectations this year are suffocating, I think, for Ryan Day. I just saw a quote from Cardale Jones, former quarterback, former national champion, former Urban Meyer guy, and he's like behind one of the two major nil collectives for Ohio State. He flat out said, hey, we're not just going to be happy with just beating Michigan

or getting to a Big Ten championship or even getting to the playoff. We have to win it all. That's a money guy now. A former player who's behind the money, the nil money behind this roster, have to win it all. That's threading the needle on expectations there at Ohio State. Yeah, they're putting a lot of pressure on them. Cardale Jones, I see i see the remember the quote he

actually had i didn't come here to play no school it's true you go there to play football and ohio state the coaches are saying it the players are saying it the money's behind it it's now going out there and winning do we actually think ohio state's going to be able to do that this year and i'm an ohio state person i have my own thoughts about maybe they going to be able to do that this year? And I'm an Ohio State person. I have my own thoughts about maybe they may not be able to do it, but also if they get the quarterback right, Ohio State's in a great shot with the roster right now to win it all this year. Well, it certainly is high expectations.

I don't know if it was more of excitement or like a nervous energy behind the scene, but it's certainly the elephant in the room each and every week. I'll take you outside of your game against Akron. We've been talking a lot about a couple other big games in the Big Ten, USC and LSU, and, of course, Penn State on the road against West Virginia. Any predictions by you? Any thoughts this weekend? I'm going with Penn State.

I would feel a little weird if I went West Virginia. I know Morgantown is going to be rocking, and I know it's going to be a fun atmosphere there. But I think Penn State is too good, and if Drew Aller wants to kind of change the narrative about him, this is the time to do it. You can start week one. Let's go out there and win that game.

Jacob, from Lockdown Hoosiers, how about your thoughts as we look at some of the other big boys on Sunday night? How about your predictions for those two games they just mentioned, Penn State and West Virginia, and, of course, USC and LSU? Well, first of all, I want to make sure that everybody knows. We say that in Bloomington, too, that it's championship or bust this year, so we're in the same boat as Columbus, just so everybody knows. No, on those two games in particular i think penn state if they don't

show up and play their best they can't lose i think west virginia is sneaky talented sneaky good and in a conference that a lot of people are going to kind of write off this year but i think penn state will get the job done and then i'm taking lsu i'm gonna take garrett nussmeyer and lsu to uh to beat beat USC on that Sunday night. I think it'll be not quite a 65-60 shootout, but it's not going to be in the teens either. I'll take LSU. We'll say 31-20 LSU over USC.

I just think they've got a little bit more talent than USC does. 20? Yeah. All right. All right. That's right, Spencer. Mark it down. That's a selection. Spencer on lockdown ducks.

Marty asked you about the Southern Cal game. How about West Virginia hosting Penn State? Is it going to be any difficulty for Penn State being a road game for them? Well, I hope nobody looks at the point spread of Penn State minus eight and a half and thinks, well, no chance at an upset there. We had a ten and a half point underdog win outright in week zero in Georgia Tech. Could we see that again? No, I don't think so. I love this Penn State team. I love what they have coming back and what they have brought in.

I know they lost both coordinators, but one, I think, was by choice. And one, of course, was not. But I like the move that they made to bring in Tom Allen, someone who Jacob is very familiar with on the defensive side of the football. Andy Kotelnicki as the offensive coordinator with Drew Aller. It doesn't need to be Kansas-level offense from last year. It just needs to be a little bit more capable against the big boys. I like Penn State.

I think they're going 11-1 this year. And I think they're winning big in Morgantown. All right. Great job, guys. We're looking forward to the season, looking forward to working with all you guys each and every week. To our audience out there, you can follow and subscribe your favorite Big Ten team from Locked On. We'll be covering your favorite team every day throughout the season.

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