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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 3 (00:50):
Of our guests in the next hour.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
We're there for the Lion's win over Cincinnati yesterday. I
want to welcome in Mike Pearson. Many of you know
him from his work here in East Lansing at Michigan
State and then on to the University of Illinois and
to Miami, Ohio and in the book publishing business. He's
(01:15):
a regular historian for us, a guy we go to
and we've been doing some lists. We're not going to
do those today ranking the best players. But Mike, I
have to get your take on this football game you
saw yesterday and what did you make of the Lions
beating the Bengals.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Well, let me first say that the stripe the jungle
promotion failed miserably in Cincinnati yesterday. You know, it was
supposed to be orange black, orange black, orange black all
the way around. No, it didn't work out that way.
It was it was major time Honolulu blue in the stands.
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I'm telling you, I would estimate and just a guest,
but I got to think of a crowd of close
to sixty there had to be fifteen to twenty thousand
Lions fans there. You could not you could not turn around.
I was I was sitting in the midst in the
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upper deck, section three one three, ironically the of the
area code in the midst of there were there were
hundreds within reach point of me. But I think the
combination of the Bengals demise since Joe Burrow's injury and
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the Lions continued rise. They sold a lot of tickets
on the internet this past week.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And that's a pretty easy drive down I said, it
is for those who want to get to Cincinnati.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Right, Yeah, of course it's only.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Hours.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I was his five and a half or something like that.
But again, it's an easy drive. There's a seventy five
is terribly busy on a Sunday, But for me, I
had the pleasure of a forty five minute drive from Oxford, Ohio.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
What impressed you about the Lions and the highest scoring
offense in the National Football League off to as good
a start as any team has in recent years.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Offensively, Well, it wasn't. It wasn't all ribbons Jack yesterday.
I thought, I thought at times, I got the Bengals played,
and I regularly watched the Bengals, and I thought they played.
They bounced back tremendously from kind of an embarrassing game
a week ago, and honestly with a clearly second stream quarterback,
(03:54):
and yeah, a little lines put on a lot of pressure,
but this was relatively close. Though the Lions could have
easily added a touchdown there in the last minute, had
they had they wanted to. I thought, I thought Detroit
(04:15):
looked good, not not as great as I'd seen them. Golf,
you know, got a lot of pressure. But for you know,
turnovers were a big part of that victory yesterday. So
I give the Lions. I think they need to step
(04:37):
up just a hair because that's that wasn't overly impressive
to me yesterday.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
What teams do impress you in the National Football League
right now? I never thought we would see the Baltimore
Ravens at one and four and Mike, they are on
PA to be the first National Football League team to
give up six hundred points.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
I thought that that was a that was a trophy win,
you know in you know back what was it two
weeks ago, three weeks ago, whatever it was. But you
know the boy again, injuries tell you a lot. And
then I would have said, well, the Bills are the
team to beat. Now, well that's the last night. I'm
(05:24):
not so sure you can say that. As I look
through the standings here, you know, the Colts are decent
in the in the American Conference. I don't see any
thing else. The Eagles again, they fall into that same
(05:46):
category of being a big disappointment yesterday. Forty nine ers
aren't all that good. The Buccaneers, I think, in my
estimation in the NFC, I would say the Lions and
the Bucks are the two favorites at this point. Now,
a lot of games to be played, But the Eagles,
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they just haven't impressed me all that much. Forty nine
Ers are in a pretty week West Division, So I'm
just going to go with Lions. I think the Packers will.
We'll come back a little bit here at some juncture, though.
Every loss or tie that they incur, you know, drives
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them back in the standings a little bit. But right
now I go Bucks Lions as the two teams to
be for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Berth Mike, I want.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
To switch gears for a minute and talk about the
Big Ten and college football. We just talked with Yogi
Roth during the break from BTN. Does a great job
out there in California, and he's coming in to do
the game UCLA and Michigan State, and it's hard to find.
(07:02):
It's hard to find an NFL team that you think
is great. I have a hard time separating Ohio State
and Oregon. And when I asked someone which of those
teams was more impressive, guys said, that's easy. It's Indiana
and the Hoosiers and Hoosiers in Texas Tech the only
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two teams in the country that are top ten in
offense and top ten in defense.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Well, Illinois would tell you that Indiana is the team
to beat. I don't think there's any doubt about that.
Sixty three to ten embarrassment. But then maybe even a
bigger embarrassment egg was laid Saturday late afternoon in Pasadena.
I was shocked, just absolutely shocked to see a coach
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fired with and basically the new caller on both sides
of the ball. And then you know, they jumped all
over Penn State. The guy, in my opinion, who's got
the hottest seat is James Franklin right now, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And I don't know how he explains that the people
in Pennsylvania who been waiting so long, and they say, okay,
this is fine. The year got all these players paid
them handsomely. Guys did not go to the NFL. Same
as with Michigan two years ago. In Ohio State last year,
they were able to retain their players at a high
(08:37):
price and it didn't seem to matter. Penn State not
ready to play. UCLA was on them before they knew
they were in a game, and then Penn State battled back.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
They couldn't make the play they needed.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
And Penn State's got. That's a pretty difficult gate turning
to end up with at least four losses, I think,
and maybe more if that ship keeps going south. You know,
they still have to play I believe, let's see they
played Ohio State. Did they play Indiana yet? I'm trying
(09:11):
to remember who they have left. But in my opinion,
the two teams that deserve the spot at the top. Well,
maybe I might sneak Indiana in there as well, but
I think Ohio State and Oregon is the class. This
will be an interesting game in Champagne on Saturday. They've
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they've already felt the sting of a of a blowout,
and I honestly don't see a blowout. I do see
a Buckeye victory. But Illinois has played Ohio State well,
I'm just I was writing an article for the Champagnews
(09:53):
is that on games between Illinois and Ohio State, and
Ohio State has dominated in the latter years. But you know,
I just have a lot of confidence in the Beilima
system and I think they'll give this Ohio State. They've
(10:16):
beaten them twice before at number one. It was a
while it was two thousand and seven when Juice Williams.
If you remember that game, that was the game upset
victory or top rated Ohio State and Columbus, and Juice
Williams threw four touchdown passes, but it was that wasn't
the highlight. It was his ability to control the ball
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for the last eight minutes of the game and never
allowing Ohio State the chance to mount a final threat.
That was the impression impressive part of it, But I
still think Ohio State is awfully good. Those covering those
two receivers is an almost impossible task. But I'm going
(11:02):
to stay with Ohio State Oregon in Indiana as the
teams to be. How did the Spartans What is playing
Ucla at this point?
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, exactly. We'll get to that in just a minute.
But I wanted to ask you from a historical standpoint,
what about Ryan day Now Saturday with a nice win
over Minnesota, pretty convincing after a big road win at Washington.
Ryan day now is the all time winning best coach
(11:37):
in Division One. I guess you could say Walter Camp
if you want to go way back to the eighteen hundreds,
but again, that's not considered to be the same kind
of football, but past New Rockney for winning percentage. And
here's a guy, Mike who if they had lost to
Tennessee last year in the first game of the playoff,
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I'm not sure he'd be the Ohio State coach.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Isn't that something? I agree with that because, uh, you know,
Ryan Day was in deep doo doo in this state
from from uh that that loss to Michigan, And he
still has a lot to prove. But when I think
how many Big ten games has he lost all together,
I don't think it's more than three or four all together.
(12:24):
I give I give him a lot of credits. They
lost their defensive coordinator. You know, when Jim Knowles took
off and signed a bigger contract to Penn State. Well,
that's not quite right. That's working out that well for
the Nittney Lyons at this point. And and Patricia's coming
in done a pretty good job because I think Ohio
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State is only allowing somewhere around five points a game,
So I do not for the year. Yeah, I do
not expect I expect Illinois to score I really do
expect him to score three touchdowns. They're averaging like thirty
seven points a game. This season and in Altmeyer is
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throwing at about of almost a seventy five percent clip completion.
So and I don't I expect Illinois to score some
points on Ohio State. I still think it's a tall
mountain to climb.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Though, Mike, do you have any idea of how Kurt
Signetti has done this? We know that he's had some
very favorable schedules, but we have seen coaches come in
to major rebuilding situations and you know it takes four
or five years to do something.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
He has not lost a Big ten.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Regular season game other than Ohio State, and the teams
he's lost to since hect to Bloomington were the two
teams that played for the national championship last year, Notre
Dame and the buck Eisen you know, both them on
the road.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Yeah, that's rights yet, No, and I would say that
Michigan State going to Indiana, that that's not going to
be a pleasure trip in a couple of weeks. But
this game this Saturday will tell us a lot. Yeah, yes,
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at Oregon and yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, and you know there are so many games like
it this week. I thought last week, other than Penn
State not showing up at the Rose Bowl, other than
the fans who were miserable sitting there. I think this
week tells us so much because you have Michigan at
USC in the coliseum. Even UCLA now does what they
(15:05):
did last week travel was it a one shot deal.
Now Michigan State's eyes are opened. And don't forget, this
is a noon start. So for all the people who
are complaining about Michigan State having to start at eleven o'clock,
this is a little different program.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
This is a nine am start for the Bruins.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Yeah. Yeah, and USC two weeks ago played at Illinois
in a nine o'clock body start for them as well.
It is not easy. But I think Michigan State, which
UCLA team is going to show up? That's what's a
question to have to ask. I think certainly I'm an
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emotional high right now and their confidence has to be brimming.
That game is going to be decided in the first half.
I think you know which which u c l A team,
Which Michigan State team.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
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Speaker 4 (16:06):
Michigan State looked pretty good, uh for much of the
for much of the game last week at Nebraska, but
uh again, these are two teams that are not sure
who's going to show up. Uh, you know, Penn State
northwestern of Penn State. I'm not overly confident if I'm
Penn State at this point. Those kids have to be
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you know, their their jaw has to be down on
the floor at this point. Nebraska Maryland is another very
good game. Indiana Oregon. We've talked about Iowa Wisconsin is
a is a regional battle, and you know that's uh,
I forget what that is is that the is that
the acts is that the hog. I forget what what
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trophy that one is. And Michigan USC will be an
immensely uh interesting game as well.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I was looking at the preseason AP top twenty five
and the top six teams. Number one was Texas, Number
two was Penn State, Three was Ohio State, four is Clemson,
five was Georgia, and six was Notre Dame. These six
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teams have already lost ten games, and here we are,
we're like, you know, barely a third of the way
through the season, and there were people would have bet
you that they wouldn't have ten loss as total at.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
The end of the try.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
That's right. Yeah, I think I think things are going
to be better for some of those teams. But still
the arch Manning fandom, if it still exists, is certainly
wondering what is this program going to show us the
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rest of the time. Penn State, we've already talked about that. Clemson. Wow,
you know, did you ever think that that guy was
going to be talked about in baited breath in terms
of losing his job? So strange things happen. Maybe this
nil plan is leveling out the field. I'm not exactly sure,
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but Ohio State is the only one Oregon. Of course,
those two the only been two steady teams that I've seen.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
And Dan Lanning also, now you talk about Signetti and
he does have a conference loss. It was at Ohio
State last year. Dan Lanning doesn't have one yet.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
No, no, And you.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Know, since he's been at Oregon last year, undefeated in
the regular season, number one in the playoff, and here
they are again. I don't think anyone thought that they
were going to be number one. I didn't hear anyone
talking about Oregon repeating as national champion. They said, well,
you know, I was still and Gabriel and nobody knew
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what Dante Moore could do.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
But I wouldn't want to play the Ducks.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Who's your pick in that game?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Now?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Who's yours? Your ducks?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Oh, you know, I guess I'm going to take Oregon.
But nothing that Indiana does these days would surprise me.
And you know, I know that Michigan State has headed
to Bloomington next week.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
So yeah, it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
It's going to be a load for anyone who tries
to go in now because the atmosphere of Mike. You know,
you've been to games at Bloomington where there were as
many visiting fans as home fans.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Now, no, no, not at all. Now, you know, can
they keep their quarterback healthy? That's another one that you
know is that Indiana and I has to worry about.
But Signetti, I'm awfully impressed. I don't I don't like
his attitude. Honestly, he's a little too bit arrogant for me. Yeah,
(20:11):
and his smugness and and so on. I'm not a
Signetti fan in a personal way, but boy, as a coach,
he's a good guy. To have it on your side.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Well, he said that this is his last job, he's
not going anywhere, and Indiana's determined to pay him.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
They think they certainly, Yeah, they certainly seem to want him,
want to keep him, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
But you know he's going to have an option. I'm
sure Florida State would look at him right now and wow,
sure sure so, Mike, thanks much for us to go ahead.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
No, I was just going to say, and who could
who could blame him for going back to South? Uh?
You know, to think that they could keep him in
the Indiana is far fetched, but as we know, stranger
things have happened. Nks to talking to you, Jack, Thanks for
chatting with me.
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Of our guests in the next hour.
Speaker 1 (00:53):
We're there for the Lion's win over Cincinnati yesterday. I
want to welcome in Mike Pearson. Many of you know
him from his work here in East Lansing at Michigan
State and then on to the University of Illinois and
to Miami, Ohio and in the book publishing business. He's
(01:15):
a regular historian for us, a guy we go to
and we've been doing some lists. We're not going to
do those today ranking the best players. But Mike, I
have to get your take on this football game you
saw yesterday and what did you make of the Lions
beating the Bengals.
Speaker 4 (01:31):
Well, let me first say that the stripe the jungle
promotion failed miserably in Cincinnati yesterday. You know, it was
supposed to be orange black, orange black, orange black all
the way around. No, it didn't work out that way.
It was it was major time Honolulu blue in the stands.
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I'm telling you, I would estimate and just a guest,
but I got to think of a crowd of close
to sixty there had to be fifteen to twenty thousand
Lions fans there. You could not you could not turn around.
I was I was sitting in the midst in the
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upper deck, section three one three, ironically the of the
area code in the midst of there were there were
hundreds within reach point of me. But I think the
combination of the Bengals demise since Joe Burrow's injury and
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the Lions continued rise. They sold a lot of tickets
on the internet this past week.
Speaker 1 (02:49):
And that's a pretty easy drive down I said, it
is for those who want to get to Cincinnati.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Right, Yeah, of course it's only.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Hours.
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I was his five and a half or something like that.
But again, it's an easy drive. There's a seventy five
is terribly busy on a Sunday, But for me, I
had the pleasure of a forty five minute drive from Oxford, Ohio.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
There you go.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
What impressed you about the Lions and the highest scoring
offense in the National Football League off to as good
a start as any team has in recent years.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Offensively, Well, it wasn't. It wasn't all ribbons Jack yesterday.
I thought, I thought at times, I got the Bengals played,
and I regularly watched the Bengals, and I thought they played.
They bounced back tremendously from kind of an embarrassing game
a week ago, and honestly with a clearly second stream quarterback,
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and yeah, a little lines put on a lot of pressure,
but this was relatively close. Though the Lions could have
easily added a touchdown there in the last minute, had
they had they wanted to. I thought, I thought Detroit
(04:15):
looked good, not not as great as I'd seen them. Golf,
you know, got a lot of pressure. But for you know,
turnovers were a big part of that victory yesterday. So
I give the Lions. I think they need to step
(04:37):
up just a hair because that's that wasn't overly impressive
to me yesterday.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
What teams do impress you in the National Football League
right now? I never thought we would see the Baltimore
Ravens at one and four and Mike, they are on
PA to be the first National Football League team to
give up six hundred points.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
I thought that that was a that was a trophy win,
you know in you know back what was it two
weeks ago, three weeks ago, whatever it was. But you
know the boy again, injuries tell you a lot. And
then I would have said, well, the Bills are the
team to beat. Now, well that's the last night. I'm
(05:24):
not so sure you can say that. As I look
through the standings here, you know, the Colts are decent
in the in the American Conference. I don't see any
thing else. The Eagles again, they fall into that same
(05:46):
category of being a big disappointment yesterday. Forty nine ers
aren't all that good. The Buccaneers, I think, in my
estimation in the NFC, I would say the Lions and
the Bucks are the two favorites at this point. Now,
a lot of games to be played, But the Eagles,
(06:09):
they just haven't impressed me all that much. Forty nine
Ers are in a pretty week West Division, So I'm
just going to go with Lions. I think the Packers will.
We'll come back a little bit here at some juncture, though.
Every loss or tie that they incur, you know, drives
(06:30):
them back in the standings a little bit. But right
now I go Bucks Lions as the two teams to
be for the Super Bowl.
Speaker 3 (06:38):
Berth Mike, I want.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
To switch gears for a minute and talk about the
Big Ten and college football. We just talked with Yogi
Roth during the break from BTN. Does a great job
out there in California, and he's coming in to do
the game UCLA and Michigan State, and it's hard to find.
(07:02):
It's hard to find an NFL team that you think
is great. I have a hard time separating Ohio State
and Oregon. And when I asked someone which of those
teams was more impressive, guys said, that's easy. It's Indiana
and the Hoosiers and Hoosiers in Texas Tech the only
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two teams in the country that are top ten in
offense and top ten in defense.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Well, Illinois would tell you that Indiana is the team
to beat. I don't think there's any doubt about that.
Sixty three to ten embarrassment. But then maybe even a
bigger embarrassment egg was laid Saturday late afternoon in Pasadena.
I was shocked, just absolutely shocked to see a coach
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fired with and basically the new caller on both sides
of the ball. And then you know, they jumped all
over Penn State. The guy, in my opinion, who's got
the hottest seat is James Franklin right now, oh yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
And I don't know how he explains that the people
in Pennsylvania who been waiting so long, and they say, okay,
this is fine. The year got all these players paid
them handsomely. Guys did not go to the NFL. Same
as with Michigan two years ago. In Ohio State last year,
they were able to retain their players at a high
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price and it didn't seem to matter. Penn State not
ready to play. UCLA was on them before they knew
they were in a game, and then Penn State battled back.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
They couldn't make the play they needed.
Speaker 4 (08:51):
And Penn State's got. That's a pretty difficult gate turning
to end up with at least four losses, I think,
and maybe more if that ship keeps going south. You know,
they still have to play I believe, let's see they
played Ohio State. Did they play Indiana yet? I'm trying
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to remember who they have left. But in my opinion,
the two teams that deserve the spot at the top. Well,
maybe I might sneak Indiana in there as well, but
I think Ohio State and Oregon is the class. This
will be an interesting game in Champagne on Saturday. They've
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they've already felt the sting of a of a blowout,
and I honestly don't see a blowout. I do see
a Buckeye victory. But Illinois has played Ohio State well,
I'm just I was writing an article for the Champagnews
(09:53):
is that on games between Illinois and Ohio State, and
Ohio State has dominated in the latter years. But you know,
I just have a lot of confidence in the Beilima
system and I think they'll give this Ohio State. They've
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beaten them twice before at number one. It was a
while it was two thousand and seven when Juice Williams.
If you remember that game, that was the game upset
victory or top rated Ohio State and Columbus, and Juice
Williams threw four touchdown passes, but it was that wasn't
the highlight. It was his ability to control the ball
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for the last eight minutes of the game and never
allowing Ohio State the chance to mount a final threat.
That was the impression impressive part of it, But I
still think Ohio State is awfully good. Those covering those
two receivers is an almost impossible task. But I'm going
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to stay with Ohio State Oregon in Indiana as the
teams to be. How did the Spartans What is playing
Ucla at this point?
Speaker 1 (11:14):
Yeah, exactly. We'll get to that in just a minute.
But I wanted to ask you from a historical standpoint,
what about Ryan day Now Saturday with a nice win
over Minnesota, pretty convincing after a big road win at Washington.
Ryan day now is the all time winning best coach
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in Division One. I guess you could say Walter Camp
if you want to go way back to the eighteen hundreds,
but again, that's not considered to be the same kind
of football, but past New Rockney for winning percentage. And
here's a guy, Mike who if they had lost to
Tennessee last year in the first game of the playoff,
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I'm not sure he'd be the Ohio State coach.
Speaker 4 (12:00):
Isn't that something? I agree with that because, uh, you know,
Ryan Day was in deep doo doo in this state
from from uh that that loss to Michigan, And he
still has a lot to prove. But when I think
how many Big ten games has he lost all together,
I don't think it's more than three or four all together.
(12:24):
I give I give him a lot of credits. They
lost their defensive coordinator. You know, when Jim Knowles took
off and signed a bigger contract to Penn State. Well,
that's not quite right. That's working out that well for
the Nittney Lyons at this point. And and Patricia's coming
in done a pretty good job because I think Ohio
(12:45):
State is only allowing somewhere around five points a game,
So I do not for the year. Yeah, I do
not expect I expect Illinois to score I really do
expect him to score three touchdowns. They're averaging like thirty
seven points a game. This season and in Altmeyer is
(13:11):
throwing at about of almost a seventy five percent clip completion.
So and I don't I expect Illinois to score some
points on Ohio State. I still think it's a tall
mountain to climb.
Speaker 1 (13:28):
Though, Mike, do you have any idea of how Kurt
Signetti has done this? We know that he's had some
very favorable schedules, but we have seen coaches come in
to major rebuilding situations and you know it takes four
or five years to do something.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
He has not lost a Big ten.
Speaker 1 (13:53):
Regular season game other than Ohio State, and the teams
he's lost to since hect to Bloomington were the two
teams that played for the national championship last year, Notre
Dame and the buck Eisen you know, both them on
the road.
Speaker 4 (14:12):
Yeah, that's rights yet, No, and I would say that
Michigan State going to Indiana, that that's not going to
be a pleasure trip in a couple of weeks. But
this game this Saturday will tell us a lot. Yeah, yes,
(14:36):
at Oregon and yeah.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Yeah, and you know there are so many games like
it this week. I thought last week, other than Penn
State not showing up at the Rose Bowl, other than
the fans who were miserable sitting there. I think this
week tells us so much because you have Michigan at
USC in the coliseum. Even UCLA now does what they
(15:05):
did last week travel was it a one shot deal.
Now Michigan State's eyes are opened. And don't forget, this
is a noon start. So for all the people who
are complaining about Michigan State having to start at eleven o'clock,
this is a little different program.
Speaker 3 (15:26):
This is a nine am start for the Bruins.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
Yeah. Yeah, and USC two weeks ago played at Illinois
in a nine o'clock body start for them as well.
It is not easy. But I think Michigan State, which
UCLA team is going to show up? That's what's a
question to have to ask. I think certainly I'm an
(15:52):
emotional high right now and their confidence has to be brimming.
That game is going to be decided in the first half.
I think you know which which u c l A team,
Which Michigan State team.
Speaker 5 (16:05):
I on.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Michigan State looked pretty good, uh for much of the
for much of the game last week at Nebraska, but
uh again, these are two teams that are not sure
who's going to show up. Uh, you know, Penn State
northwestern of Penn State. I'm not overly confident if I'm
Penn State at this point. Those kids have to be
(16:29):
you know, their their jaw has to be down on
the floor at this point. Nebraska Maryland is another very
good game. Indiana Oregon. We've talked about Iowa Wisconsin is
a is a regional battle, and you know that's uh,
I forget what that is is that the is that
the acts is that the hog. I forget what what
(16:51):
trophy that one is. And Michigan USC will be an
immensely uh interesting game as well.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (16:59):
I was looking at the preseason AP top twenty five
and the top six teams. Number one was Texas, Number
two was Penn State, Three was Ohio State, four is Clemson,
five was Georgia, and six was Notre Dame. These six
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teams have already lost ten games, and here we are,
we're like, you know, barely a third of the way
through the season, and there were people would have bet
you that they wouldn't have ten loss as total at.
Speaker 3 (17:34):
The end of the try.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
That's right. Yeah, I think I think things are going
to be better for some of those teams. But still
the arch Manning fandom, if it still exists, is certainly
wondering what is this program going to show us the
(17:57):
rest of the time. Penn State, we've already talked about that. Clemson. Wow,
you know, did you ever think that that guy was
going to be talked about in baited breath in terms
of losing his job? So strange things happen. Maybe this
nil plan is leveling out the field. I'm not exactly sure,
(18:21):
but Ohio State is the only one Oregon. Of course,
those two the only been two steady teams that I've seen.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
And Dan Lanning also, now you talk about Signetti and
he does have a conference loss. It was at Ohio
State last year. Dan Lanning doesn't have one yet.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
No, no, And you.
Speaker 1 (18:47):
Know, since he's been at Oregon last year, undefeated in
the regular season, number one in the playoff, and here
they are again. I don't think anyone thought that they
were going to be number one. I didn't hear anyone
talking about Oregon repeating as national champion. They said, well,
you know, I was still and Gabriel and nobody knew
(19:08):
what Dante Moore could do.
Speaker 3 (19:10):
But I wouldn't want to play the Ducks.
Speaker 4 (19:13):
Who's your pick in that game?
Speaker 2 (19:14):
Now?
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Who's yours? Your ducks?
Speaker 1 (19:17):
Oh, you know, I guess I'm going to take Oregon.
But nothing that Indiana does these days would surprise me.
And you know, I know that Michigan State has headed
to Bloomington next week.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
So yeah, it's going to be.
Speaker 1 (19:36):
It's going to be a load for anyone who tries
to go in now because the atmosphere of Mike. You know,
you've been to games at Bloomington where there were as
many visiting fans as home fans.
Speaker 4 (19:50):
Now, no, no, not at all. Now, you know, can
they keep their quarterback healthy? That's another one that you
know is that Indiana and I has to worry about.
But Signetti, I'm awfully impressed. I don't I don't like
his attitude. Honestly, he's a little too bit arrogant for me. Yeah,
(20:11):
and his smugness and and so on. I'm not a
Signetti fan in a personal way, but boy, as a coach,
he's a good guy. To have it on your side.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
Well, he said that this is his last job, he's
not going anywhere, and Indiana's determined to pay him.
Speaker 4 (20:32):
They think they certainly, Yeah, they certainly seem to want him,
want to keep him, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (20:39):
But you know he's going to have an option. I'm
sure Florida State would look at him right now and wow,
sure sure so, Mike, thanks much for us to go ahead.
Speaker 4 (20:49):
No, I was just going to say, and who could
who could blame him for going back to South? Uh?
You know, to think that they could keep him in
the Indiana is far fetched, but as we know, stranger
things have happened. Nks to talking to you, Jack, Thanks for
chatting with me.
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