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Episode Date: September 19, 2024

Welcome back to Big 10 Squad! In this Week Four episode, hosted by Craig Shemon of Locked On Big 10, we dive deep into the latest developments in Big Ten football. Join Craig and a panel of experts from Locked On podcasts as they recap the weekend’s action, spotlight standout performances, and discuss key upcoming matchups.🚀 What’s Inside This Episode:Game Recaps: Relive the most exciting moments from Week Four’s Big Ten matchups.Expert Analysis: Get insights from Locked On hosts covering teams like 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.Looking Ahead: Discuss the key storylines and matchups to watch for in the coming week.Why Listen? Whether you’re a passionate supporter or a casual fan, this episode offers essential insights and predictions to keep you informed throughout the season.🔔 Don’t forget to subscribe to Big 10 Squad for your weekly dose of Big Ten analysis and updates! Hit the bell icon to get notified about new episodes.Join the Conversation: We want to hear from you! Share your thoughts on this week’s games and your predictions for next week in the comments below.#Big10Squad #Big10Football #LockedOnBig10 #CollegeFootball #WeekFourRecap #FootballAnalysis #CraigShemon #LockedOnPodcast #BigTenTeams #NCAA #FootballUpdates #BigTenRoundtable

Well, we've got Friday Night Lights in the Big Ten, a couple of ranked teams, Illinois and Nebraska. We're excited about it. Are they legit? Plus, USC has a statement game in the big house. And can UCLA get it together for their big game against LSU? All that and more going into a huge week four. It's time for the 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. No hurt feelings and thin skin allowed. Squad up. You're part of the Big Ten squad. All right. Welcome to the Locked On Big Ten squad 10 squad thrilled to be with you yet again this week sit back enjoy and let's talk some football do a little trash talking too as well as we get ready for week four i'm craig scheman from lockdown big 10 and this show today is brought to you by fan duel now through september 22nd all fan duel customers can bet five dollars and get a three-week free trial of NFL Sunday Ticket from YouTube and YouTube TV. Visit FanDuel.com slash LockedOn to get yourself started. All right, our roundtable today, Matt Sheehan from LockedOn Spartans,

Jay Stephens from LockedOn Buckeyes, Jacob Goins from LockedOn Hoosiers, Spencer McLaughlin from LockedOn College Football and LockedOn Oregon, Zach Anderson-Joxheimer from LockedOn UCLA, and Roman Tomaschoff from LockedOn College Football and Locked On Oregon, Zach Anderson-Jachseimer from Locked On UCLA, and Roman Tomaschoff from Locked On Huskies. Now, we got a big week coming up here in week four, but I gotta do this right now. There's a couple of things,

because it involves three of you on the screen right now. If the Big Ten season were to end today, the Big Ten championship would be between Matt's Spartans and Jacobs Indiana Hoosiers because of their pummeling of Zach's UCLA Bruins this past weekend. Gentlemen, go ahead. Stop the season. Stop it right now. Just cold stuff. We need another outbreak, a pandemic to break. Whatever's going to stop the season done in its tracks and get that banner up in Spartan Stadium. What by any means necessary? necessary yeah that's a great

way to start the show Matt advocate for another global pandemic let's run it back baby do you know how desperate I have been the last few years are you kidding me like actually on a serious note look we're three and our coach is gainfully employed I have nothing but reasons to smile over here so um you know what Spencer that's what it takes for us okay that's what it takes for us to be good it's just another global pandemic and if that's the case it is what it takes for us. That's what it takes for us to be good is just another global pandemic. And if that's the case, it is what it is. But we've joked so long about not talking about Indiana football. But, look, can we talk about the team that scored more points than anybody in the Big Ten

and the team that currently sits on top of the Big Ten standings? I think we should take at least a couple of minutes, Craig. I appreciate your time today. Yeah, let it rip. I'm excited about it that was a pretty good look i've been around a few times you all know i'm an indiana grad that that was the best looking football game i've ever seen it was it was competent both sides of the ball was incredible loved every minute of it sorry zach i know that was we set the table for you uh

national tv rose bowl first game ever in the big ten and it didn't go so well for the bruins yeah it looked good for the team in red credit for zach for showing up i gotta say like when i pop up on the screen i was like that you're a better man than i am that that takes you know i was gonna be here zach i would i would understand if you didn't know i was gonna be here oh no i knew i figured i you know if i'm talking smack i mean i guess i didn't talk too much smack i knew better after watching week one ucla football but you know smart i came here and i figured i might as well lick my wounds the tigers will do that next week too oh geez oh god give me the address I'll send you a care package. This is a lot of season. You might need it, man.

The fact that he's smiling every once in a while is astounding. Yeah, the problem with that care package is just like the UCLA offense, it's going to take a long time to deliver. Has it delivered yet? I'm not sure, Spencer. No. That was my point. I haven't gotten there yet. Jacob, I don't want to get into hyperbole here,

but the storyline developing in the Big Ten is, you know, who's going to be that second team to hang with Ohio State? We think it's Spencer's Oregon Ducks, but we don't know. I mean, at least they're finally starting to cover spreads after week three. The Trojans, Penn State. I don't know. Is Indiana in the bottom of that conversation? I mean, at this point, yes.

We're three weeks in. But how could you not be? I mean, until we're given a reason not to believe it, throw us up there. You may as well see and see if it sticks. We're 1-0 in the Big Ten. Maryland coming up. We do have Michigan that's in Bloomington. Just want to keep everybody in mind on that one as well.

Michigan State's on that schedule. Not worried about that. Sorry, Matt. I mean, look, it could be there at the end of the season. We'll just have to wait and see all right we'll we'll see for sure matt uh the spartans i'm mad you didn't cover about half a point you didn't cover last weekend against prairie view we tried our best look we missed an extra point in the first half i'm not going to say calls were made but who is to say uh that's it that's it if i say anything else there's going to be an unmarked van at my door uh asking me some questions too so close though we looked good it was never a doubt

and that's the first time in a long time that we've had a no doubt victory so three and oh coach is gainfully employed we're smiling here in east lansing there there's nothing but happiness over here man now matt you've got boston college they made a big splash early on with their win against florida state but that's kind of not a big deal now. So what's your assessment of the skin this weekend? And they still looked really good against Mizzou on the road against an actual top 10 team, not like Florida State, the vanity top 25 team. But, yeah, this is going to be the first Michigan State test that they have in the trenches.

Maryland, not the most impressive unit in the trenches. Last week, Prairie View A&M, no disrespect to the Panthers, not the strongest test either. So excited to see if this run defense that we have that's top 20 in the trenches. Last week, Prairie View A&M, no disrespect to the Panthers, not the strongest test either. So excited to see if this run defense that we have that's top 20 in the nation right now is actually good enough to be top 20 or if they were just, you know, the beneficiaries of some down units. So tucked away in the ACC network, they are trying to censor the greatness going on in East Lansing right now. Like there's going to be 16 people watching this game.

But, damn it, I will be one of 16 people, and I cannot wait to see what is going on here. Yeah, I don't even know if I get ACC Network anymore. Probably not. Yeah. Jay, what did you guys do during your bye week as you get ready for Marshall this week? Everything's cush, man.

Everything's rolling. Got the starting left guard back. That's all I really care about. Everybody's healthy. That's really resting and improving and focusing on the fundamentals all week long. hardback that's all i really care about everybody's healthy that's really resting and improving and focusing on the fundamentals all week long when you get donovan jackson back for the first time all year that's a definite boost to the offensive line that even with three newcomers there now one

of them is mr mclaughlin former all sec guy at alabama been there this year but the offensive line has really been a nice surprise and how well tegau Chaboli. No relation, by the way, just so we're clear. Thank you. I will stop recording. I was like, hold on. No relation. Okay. Am I the only one that heard my name and not Seth's name?

Oh, no. I did. I was like, no, you're on a four-foot. Did I say four-foot? I meant Seth. I don't know what I said. I'm pretty sure you said my name and look, I'm humbled. But not only am I only 5'8 and a half, but I am only 165 pounds.

I don't think I would work out very well playing center for the Buckeyes. But Jay, I appreciate the faith. Hey, man. I see Spencer's name right in front of me on the screen. It just popped out. It is Devin Guad from the former All-SEC guy at Alabama. But, no, the offensive line is healthy. The team's going to be just fine.

Really, this is another one of those warm-up or preseason games. Sorry, Matt. You guys are after Marshall. It's on Peacock. No one's going to know. That's okay. No, we will. We will.

We will know. We will talk about it on the show. We'll just talk about how bad it will be once again. Matt, I think that's Roman's copium right now. The game was on Peacock. Nobody noticed. I was going to say Spencer. I haven't said much anything for a reason here.

Smart man. Smart man. Spencer, if you're going to go play college football, I mean, Washington can probably use you. I mean, they need anybody they can pick. No, they really don't need him. Hey, whoa, whoa, whoa. Hold on, hold on, hold on.

Hold on. The PFF grades came in for my intramural flag football game. The other way, zero yards allowed to pass breakups. I think that I could easily take out one of those wazoo wide receivers that Washington couldn't stop last week. No, see, that's that's the problem is they did too much of that. Sixteen penalties, 135 yards. Yeah, you're saying take out. You're using it in the wrong context here.

Well, Roman, the good news is you got Northwestern coming your way. So whoever's wearing purple, they'll be rooting for somebody in this game. That should be a nice bounce back for you, I think, based on what I've seen. I mean, you know, I've said it before. This is the reason Roman's oozing with confidence over here. This is what happens every single time like i truly every single time i i make some sort of prediction this is what happens yeah i i certainly feel better about it i i can i'm going to expect a bounce back week is what i'll say but

really if if the penalties figure themselves out which again 16 for 135 yards is just an absolutely brutal showing one of you know only there are only four teams worse in terms of penalties one of them being uh you know matt matt up over there so they're they're not a lot of teams that are are more penalized right now than washington that's the one thing i really need to see in this game all right uh zach ucla's got lsu obviously we we joked we kid about the tough time against Indiana. But LSU, I guess you can watch the USC game film from the first week of the season. Any thoughts on the bounce back this week for the Bruins? I heard they're trying to call up Florida State and schedule a new game.

No, actually, I'll be in person to see that game in baton rouge um i'm assuming the tailgate will be better than the actual game but i think the biggest thing is can the offense score two touchdowns in the game that would be something i'd like to see and is lsu's defense from 23 translating over to 24 i'm not sure that's the case but i'd like to see some of that you know ugly 23 defense in this game and And maybe UCLA could score a few points and make this interesting for a couple of quarters. All right. Jacob, for the Hoosiers, they got Charlotte. I'm curious. They're going to come back home. Like Indiana's got like the most beautiful 55,000 seat stadium. They rarely fill it. Will there be a big crowd of this game against

Charlotte? And how many points will the Hoosiers score this week? That's what we're expecting. And on Locked on Hoosiers, and so many people are saying, look, this team deserves to have people there. They deserve to have the fans there. They've built this up early this season. So, yes, people will show up. Will it be a sellout? I don't know.

We'll have to see. Look, I got somebody in my YouTube comments who correctly predicted the UCLA score. He's saying 49 against Charlottelotte so we're going to go with 49 and we'll see how that goes but here's a question who would be the most fraudulent 4-0 team michigan state or indiana michigan no that's two road wins against power four teams thank you very much we are not going to slander the spartans here this early in the season my god i think matt makes it until i see jay in a few weeks. My goodness gracious, come on. Yeah, I think Matt makes a compelling point.

Yeah, Maryland's a tough place. Spencer, you guys finally covered against Oregon State. Hang the banner. Hang the banner. Hang the banner. No, but you got the win covered. Now you got a week off to relax and continue to find. In all seriousness, it looked like they solved two of their three biggest problems that they've had in the first two weeks.

Yeah, cut down on the penalties and fix the offensive line. And the offensive line was concern number one. And look, they might have found a unit, but former Indiana offensive guard Matthew Bedford hasn't played yet. And he's apparently healthy enough to get back on the field. But I don't know if you make that change right now because the offensive line in the second half against Boise State and in the entire game against the Beavs they found a rhythm with the unit that they have without Bedford on the field I don't know if you introduce another variable with the way they've been playing but certainly I think the offensive line however you look at it is moving in the right

direction and you know beating a former conference but still in-state rival, it's not as easy as you think. All right, we're going to continue with our panel. We're going to take a deeper dive into some of the other games going on in the Big Ten, including the Friday Night Lights with two ranked teams, Illinois and Nebraska, going at it. And USC going into Michigan. It's not going to look like the Texas game two weeks ago.

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We've seen UCLA on the national scale. We've seen LSU nationally. This could be another tough challenge for the Bruins. That's one way to put it. Yeah, Zach just seems like such a nice person, too. I hate to talk like this about his team, but even before the season, we did a segment where, okay, three teams' best bets were over under win totals. One of them was UCLA under three and a half.

And so far, look, I don't have a lot of great takes. That's unfortunately turning out to be one of the fantastic ones. I just don't see any possible way that UCLA keeps it close up until the fourth quarter. I'm sorry, Zach. I know we're supposed to do this whole smack-talking thing and ruffle each other's feathers, but that just doesn't sit right with me. Sorry, man.

We'll just wait until basketball season. Okay. That'll be more evenly matched. That's fine. That's okay. I'll get the heat cranked up for that one. We have to avenge our COVID tournament loss. But then, again, you guys did beat Juwan Howard in Michigan

to get to the Final Four, so smooth everything over as far as I'm concerned. Jacob and I used to always say, wait till basketball season at iu but i mean come on it's the third week of september we can't say that already don't give up yet come on don't give up yet there is hope in you guys yeah yeah espn has you guys at like a 24 chance to make the playoffs right as far as i'm concerned that's not that's 84 let's go yeah absolutely Yeah, absolutely. 80% is a good percent. Absolutely. Jay, you have any thoughts on UCLA and LSU? Since you've had a bye week, you've had a chance to watch some other football around the country. True. This is one that I've been looking forward to watching to see how good LSU plays. I think

it's going to be probably a beat down, but Tiger Stadium is a tough place to play. If it were at night, I would probably say LSU by 50, but it's not at night. It's at 330 Eastern, so probably Tigers by 21. But it's not easy going down there, and I feel sorry for UCLA. I really do, having to go lose to Indiana, then having to go and play LSU this weekend. It's not a good look, not fun at all. Roman, any thoughts on that one?

I mean, hey, Zach, Tiger Stadium is a great place to watch a game. I was down there a bunch of years ago when they upset Georgia. It was the first year of Joe Burrow. So a fantastic place to watch a game. Yeah, the score, all of that, that's not going to be pretty. So enjoy the food. Enjoy everything else about the day except the football. Yeah.

Jacob, how about you? What are your thoughts? I mean, is there a ditto button, a mirror somewhere? I don't know. I mean, it's just not going to be pretty. Look, LSU had to escape against South Carolina, who I think is probably better than people gave them credit for. I think officials helped out that a little bit there as well. But LSU is still a good football team.

Brian Kelly is still a good football coach. Are they playoff good? No, probably not. But unfortunately for our boys act they're good enough to beat ucla and they'll have their way on saturday let's go round robin on the friday night game nebraska and illinois both teams in the top 25 and uh matt i'll start with you this these are two legit teams right absolutely yeah and nebraska i don't know how they have like the ohio state and the michigan schedule really seemingly start with nine straight home games but they have done it.

Here we are again at Nebraska. So, yeah, I think that they're going to roll by at least 10 points, keep the score low for Illinois because, you know, I thought the Nebraska defense would be, like, good this year, but, my God, especially at home, they have looked dominant. Black shirts back, perhaps, but, yeah, I'm going to go Huskers 24, Illini 14. Jay, how about you?

I'm right there with them. I think this nebraska team with the right coach when they have it right now is exactly what they should have been a couple years ago also you get a quarterback you get a good quarterback now he's young and experienced but he's able to do some things early on this year in his career to build some confidence we'll be able to see that confidence in full display on Friday night. Also, Nebraska fans are crazy. I mean, they were showing up, selling out when they were bad. So I do think that'll be a fun atmosphere to watch all Friday night. And I got Nebraska in this one. All right, Zach, what do you say? I mean, sensing a trance here, but as much as Illinois has done well to start the season, I'm feeling Nebraska as well in a close one. but I think the Huskers are going to do a good thing this Friday night. Nobody's a Luke Altmyer fan here in Brett Bielema's defense.

How about you, Roman? No, I got to continue on the Nebraska side of things. That's Matt's defense. Very smart man. I've been really, really impressed by that defense. And on the other side, though, the one thing we need to do is we need to stop with this Patrick Mahomes cosplay with Dylan Raiola. Really, really talented quarterback. I am so over all of this like we we need to stop it now

please and like the fact that he he's saying like oh I'm doing this unintentionally no you're not let's let's just stop with that immediately please I think that's a fair wise comment all right Jacob is it a sweep are we going to Nebraska Friday night? Well, look, this season's already off to a wacky start. Things are a little bit different, right? Indiana's 3-0. We're playing well. So you know what? In the spirit of being different, in the spirit of the Locked On Big Ten

squad show being a little crazy, I'll take Illinois. Do I have a legitimate reason? Absolutely not. Just to be different, I'll take Illinois. And when I'm right, I'll claim it. When I'm wrong, you just won't hear from me. And that's all right. That's fair enough. Love that. That's a great story. There's a big nationally televised game in the middle of Saturday afternoon. The USC Trojans, their first big 10 game going into the big house, taking on Michigan. Michigan is not what Michigan was. USC looks pretty good

is this going to be a repeat of the texas game two weeks ago where the visiting team comes in gets up big and michigan just doesn't have the firepower to catch up i'll start with you matt yeah that's what i'm feeling unless usc wants to have miller monster left-handed just to kind of neutralize the quarterback play between the two teams. Before I belt out a prediction, I am baffled, and feel free, anyone, to answer this question, but why did Sherron Moore announce that they are changing the starting quarterback? Like, why let De'Anne Lynn, one of the greatest defensive coordinators in the nation, get a five-full-day heads-up that, hey, we are drastically changing the style of quarterback?

Does anyone have an answer? Because to me, that just seems like you're just shooting yourself in the foot right there. He's also a guy who has told you we've got a contract. So, I mean, there was a little weird. Is that a thing people do often, or is that just another Michigan court that they'll just claim is normal?

I just did some research and yes, it is. I, you know, shockingly enough, that is something that people need. I just didn't know if like Sharon Moore was just like being like held hostage or something and couldn't leave the room until he was very honest about the

quarterback situation. But that just seemed like free information that I would not give USC when you're already a touchdown underdog and behind the eight ball. So I'm going to hope and guess that USC wins this game. And I, I'm going to be happy again for another Saturday guys. This is great. I've been happy for like what? Three, three Saturdays. Now this is awesome. Especially when it seems like, like, what, three Saturdays now? This is awesome. Especially when it seems like it's Sharon Moore's style to wait and be coy.

And, I mean, it didn't even announce. Warren was starting right before the kickoff of the Fresno State game. So strange. So strange. Yeah. Jay, you must be loving this, watching Michigan just circle the drain, apparently. Oh, loving it.

That's a great way to describe it. And you're going to tell me that the quarterback is a guy that can't throw the ball like i literally told my friends are people are michigan fans ready to watch a run a run only offense because they don't let them throw the ball like i don't understand the decision to not only announce it but to go this route because you're basically saying we're one dimensional. And I wanted to mention, is it elite? No. So we got to beat you with defense, but our defense might be on the field for 40 plus minutes.

So I'm not really sure exactly what's going to happen here. I got USC in this one. I do think it'll be, this one could be worse than a Texas game because USC has already seen what Michigan is this year. So they have a blueprint and film to see and realize, hey, we do this, we win. Zach, you got to make your debut for UCLA on national TV, and now USC is going to do the same thing, a nationally televised game, 3.30 Eastern against Michigan.

How do you see this thing coming out? I'm not necessarily going to be different from who's going to win here, but I do disagree with Jay. I think Michigan, they've already got smacked, right? They got smacked and punched in the face by Texas. I think Texas is still a little better than USC, and USC's defense is not as dreadful as it was the year before, but I don't think Michigan's going to lie down

and get their butt kicked once again. Will USC win? Probably, but I don't think it's going to be an absolute destroyed game like it was a couple weeks ago. I think Michigan puts up a fight, but USC clearly a little better. They got a quarterback who can throw. They can do more facets well than Michigan can. I think Michigan will play a bit better defensively in this game to keep them closer before the Trojans pull away late. Roman, you guys with the Huskies can scout this out. You got Michigan in a rematch of a national championship game coming up around the corner. Yeah, you know, I bet on Mason Graham in this defensive line once, and I still, while I respect

their talent, I can't do it again because, yeah, that quarterback situation is just a mess. And, you know, in a few weeks, we'll see how it looks when they come out here to Seattle. But until then, I as much as it pains me to say it, I have to roll the Trojans here. I've yeah, I really it truly makes me sick to talk about how good they look on both sides of the ball right now. I got it. Jacob, final word on this one. Yeah. Yeah. No difference maker here gentlemen i uh you don't be contrarian

on this one and take michigan do it come on no i i'm with zach though i do think michigan keeps it closer than people think and look i'm just happy for jay that ohio state finally has a chance to be michigan this year because michigan's not a good team i'm just happy for the buck wow jay's gonna drive your house right now wow that's it's just gonna get ugly how how this year because Michigan's not a good team. I'm just happy for the Buckeyes. Jay's going to drag your house right now. Wow, it's just going to get ugly. How young are you? Because Ohio State used to repeatedly beat Michigan not too long ago. Don't forget we play all this year, too.

Just be careful. No, no, no, we're not talking about Indiana on the road to Columbus. Absolutely not. No, no, no, no. We're just going to skip right over that game and keep going. All right, guys. I appreciate it. We'll continue with our panel as we get a final thought on week four

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The flag bearers of the Big Ten. The basketball schools unite. Yes. Let's go. Let's talk round unite. Yes. Let's go. Let's talk round ball, baby. Let's do a curveball and talk all basketball. That's what Jake and I created in our crossover. I love it.

This is almost – we got three of the final four right here. Let's go. Zach, we have a stroke. Can we do this during basketball season, Craig? Because this would be fun. I mean – I don't know. We'll see what happens.

Yeah. Yeah. All right. We're still rolling. We'll keep it a little shorter here and we'll get you on your way. Appreciate it. All right.

Three, two, one. As we continue now with the Lockdown Big Ten squad, we are left with Matt Sheehan from Lockdown Spartans, Zach Anderson, Jock Seimer from Lockdown UCLA, and Jacob Goins from Lockdown Hoosiers.

And what just has dawned on us, this is a good basketball segment right here. The three teams of the Final Four maybe this year right here. How about that? Yes. Lock it in. Yes. Well, look, we scared off Ohio State. We scared off Oregon.

We've scared off all the people that don't really want to be here. So, yeah yeah we can talk basketball that's okay i know there's more football but we're always open to basketball in bloomington craig you know that yeah coach woody we got tom iso i mean you guys what are your basketball coaches doing right now they hanging out in the press box of a football game or uh because we got um we got a legitimate practice starting in a couple of weeks right i know our guys recruiting i don't even know if he likes his family that man is always on the road even the day after the season ends like he's at some random high school gym in indiana just talking to a teenager or his family or his

coach so he's probably somewhere out on the road not anywhere close to his own home he is a dog yeah that's great all right guys yeah we'll have to do this uh i always love talking hoops as well final uh thoughts though for football going into this weekend. Some teams are playing conference games. Some are wrapping up the non-conference schedule. I touched on this at the beginning of this podcast, but I would like to go around with you here. Look, it does appear to be Ohio State and everybody else.

I did think it was going to be Oregon. You know, they kind of gave me some question marks the first two games, although I think they was going to be Oregon. You know, they kind of gave me some question marks the first two games, although I think they got things right. But maybe you have one or two teams that you think are going to be the ones that compete for Ohio State here. Matt, I'll start with you. Who's got the inside track to maybe compete with Ohio State? Yeah, I mean, I feel like we just forgot about Penn State

just because they had that weird early bye week, you know, but I very well could see them making it happen. And I think, you know, almost in a transitive property sort of way, you saw Kansas kind of falter against Illinois. And that's not to say Illinois is a bad team, but is Kansas shaky because they've lost their offensive coordinator to, well, Penn State. Maybe the magic is just with that guy. So if he can make Drew Aller right, we already know the defense is going to be strong enough. Yeah, maybe that is just going to be the case. We're not going to get more definitive answers this week against Kent State unless something horrible happens against the Golden Flashes.

But, yeah, I feel like Penn State is really going to have a say here at the end of the season. Zach, how about you? I mean, I think, what was it, last week or the week before, we were talking about who that second-best team in the Big Ten is, and I felt bad. I didn't bring up Nebraska. It's a lot to ask out of a true

freshman quarterback they of course got the fan base they've needed some love on this late locked on big 10 squad and they're they're good i think they're good you know will they have a true freshman quarterback game lump i think that is coming when i'm not sure because that happens whenever a true freshman quarterback plays like one but But if he is really good, minimizes his mistakes, Dylan Rayola, regardless of the comparisons to Pat Mahomes or the lookalikes, it doesn't matter. At the end of the day, our results and him playing much more mature than his years are, I think Nebraska is that team that can surprise

Sarri to Indiana. All right, Jacob, final word. Who's making that run to catch up to the top? As much as I want to say Indiana, it's too early to tell. It is. I like the Nebraska answer. I believe that's what I had said a couple of weeks ago when we talked about this the first time. But guys, I fear that in the Big Ten, it might be Ohio State and everybody else. Because what happens if, yeah, Indiana flames out what happens if penn state flames out because i'm not i'm not as high on them as matt is what happens if nebraska does

nebraska things right usc does you i mean what happens if this conference eats itself alive then in terms of the college football playoff we're in trouble and so i hope that doesn't happen i'll take usc or nebraska until one of them does what historically they like to do, which is crumble under their own feet. But I'll take USC for now just until something else happens. And of course, until Indiana rises to power and takes over the world. But I'll tell you, it's not Purdue. I can confidently tell you that. Yeah, let's go there we go no that's a great point though like are we gonna acc ourselves just cannibalize ourselves we're just gonna be miami and then a bunch of eight and four teams at the

end of the season over there like when you put it like that i can see everyone cratering but i jacob like we're gonna talk up your hoosiers right now let's say everyone else just you know craters cannibalizes themselves the rest of the season for you guys is not horrible like is charlotte maryland both at home at northwestern nebraska washington at home at michigan state that's right get ready for that one then michigan at home which look i'm looking at the the projections right now on k4 rains.com coin flip game ohio state again we'll just skip right over that but then home against purdue yeah there is a world where you are a one loss team and that could very well get you in to lucas oil stadium so it right this sounds so weird i feel like i'm gonna pass out right now just talking like this like if you talked like this before the season you would have been brought to a hospital but now seeing it actually happen on the road to find win

over ucla who's not great but it's a road win across the country like i i don't think that's like crazy with a capital C to talk Indiana and the big 10 championship. Yeah. My head just exploded, but I love hearing it. Yeah. Yeah. Iowa and Rutgers in the same boat schedule.

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