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Speaker 1: points really good. All right. John Middlecoff, it's time for

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Speaker 1: All right, I want to talk. Listen to Ohio State.

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Speaker 1: Should have put Penn State away earlier, but they're the

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Speaker 1: better team USC Lincoln Riley's now twelve and twelve again,

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Speaker 1: they lead late and lose Oregon. Thump's Michigan. I think

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Speaker 1: we've spent so much time looking at Texas and Georgia

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Speaker 1: I watched Oregon this weekend. I'm not sure what they're

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Speaker 1: not good at like. I'm like, I'll tell you this.

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Speaker 1: The more I watch Oregon, the more I like him.

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Speaker 1: The more I watch Ohio State, the less I like them.

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Speaker 1: I feel like Ohio State offensively, John has a bit

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Speaker 1: best players are all wide receivers. And then combine that

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Speaker 1: all these receivers. He may win a Heisman. He's just

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Speaker 1: he's a good college quarterback. I don't see any special

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Speaker 1: And every time I watch Ohio State, I'm like, they

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Speaker 1: leave points on the table. It just doesn't feel like

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Speaker 1: I watched Oregon. Oregon is squeezing every fricking ounce of

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Speaker 1: the road in college, even though Michigan's not great, and

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Speaker 1: just kick the shit out of them. I mean, the

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Speaker 1: game wasn't even as close as thirty eight to seventeen.

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Speaker 1: I just don't think we're ready to embrace this. People

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Speaker 1: They just get the best players. They pay for him,

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Speaker 2: I want to hate Ohio State. I actually thought that

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Speaker 2: I don't love George's quarterback. You know, Dylan Gabriel can

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Speaker 2: But I hear yeah, I mean I think Oregon. If

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Speaker 2: But if Ohio State gets healthy like, I mean, their talent,

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Speaker 2: And what a what a letdown by Penn State. If

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Speaker 2: I don't where are their wider where are their wide receivers? Yesterday?

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Speaker 2: You go, our rosters just as good as a roster.

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Speaker 2: I actually think their quarterback, who was awful last year,

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Speaker 2: But their wide receivers make no place, and they're so

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Speaker 2: But to get them in that spot, they're all bitching

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Speaker 2: I just know long Penn State probably in the playoffs

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Speaker 2: But I don't take this program seriously at all, relative

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Speaker 2: you need? Yeah? Are they gonna win their ten eleven games?

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Speaker 2: Depending on how the schedule breaks. You will never pick

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Speaker 2: they're not, because they just never make a big play

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Speaker 2: And then Ohio State with all these random offensive linemen

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Speaker 2: Ohio State hitter. But that was that was impressive to.

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Speaker 1: Get when they were winning on the roads. Hard in college,

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Speaker 1: So let me touch on USC Lincoln Riley twelve and twelve.

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Speaker 2: What's there a record right now? Colin?

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Speaker 1: I think they're four and five or three? And what

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Speaker 2: I think they're four and five. Yes, Yeah, that's pretty crazy,

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Speaker 1: not really. I do think offensively they'll be better next year.

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Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, if you would have told me this

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Speaker 2: we sure they're I mean six and six. They've proven

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Speaker 2: now they can lose to anybody. I think the craziest part.

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Speaker 2: And it hit me last night. I'm watching the game.

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Speaker 2: they don't they don't matter in the college landscape like

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Speaker 2: I know we talk about it, but they don't matter

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Speaker 1: Colin John. They don't have anything resembling a first round player.

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Speaker 1: Yeah we should.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, what are we doing here? We can't We can't

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Speaker 2: A seven win team? That's that's a problem, Colin, that's

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Speaker 1: John Middlecoff, former NFL Scout three and out as always, buddy,

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Speaker 2: See you, Colin, fight on, baby. That's all we can

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Speaker 2: do the volume.

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