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Speaker 1: I love that clip so much from Ghostbusters. It's the

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Speaker 1: point thirty Florida versus the george Bulldogs Dan, they play

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Speaker 1: That's right. Let's talk about Georgia squaring off against a

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Speaker 1: It's been a minute for the Bulldogs. The last time

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Speaker 2: I can get worse. Tie, you do not want to

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Speaker 1: ones I think of note. Okay, Oklahoma State Kansas State

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Speaker 1: should be a really good game, really.

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Speaker 2: Fun team on Halloween.

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Speaker 1: Alma State, never know, Wake Forest on the road at Louisville.

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Speaker 1: This is a close matchup from a year ago. I

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Speaker 1: have some thoughts that we'll get to in a little bit.

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Speaker 1: And then I also threw on here even though it

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Speaker 1: is over a seven point line Illinois versus Nebraska, Illinois

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Speaker 1: favored by seven and a half on the road at Nebraska.

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Speaker 1: I can't remember a time in my adult life when

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Speaker 1: I ever felt this confident about Illinois football.

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Speaker 2: I thought, you're just confident in general, and obviously as wow,

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Speaker 2: somebody who dresses like he does on Halloween, Ty, you're

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Speaker 2: one of the most confident people. I know you're not wrong.

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Speaker 2: And it's hard to fully get a beat on what

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Speaker 2: Nebraska's ceiling is with an interim situation, and I don't

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Speaker 2: think Illinois is a ten win team. It's one of

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Speaker 2: those things where it's hard to point to specifically why

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Speaker 2: Nebraska is going to beat Illinois. And I don't like Nebraska,

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Speaker 2: so I'm taking Illinois. But it's one of those things too,

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Speaker 2: where like, are we fully confident in this Illinois offense

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Speaker 2: to just the games in Lincoln? Right?

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Speaker 1: Games in Lincoln, that's correct?

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Speaker 2: Like, are we fully confident that Illinois is just a

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Speaker 2: finished enough product to say, yeah, they're gonna win ten

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Speaker 2: games and take advantage of everybody they should because of

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Speaker 2: this strong defense. That's what worries me. That's what's spooky

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Speaker 2: to me. What's the line again about seven and a half.

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Speaker 1: Seven and a half points.

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Speaker 2: That's what's spooky to me. Now, I have to be

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Speaker 2: able to make the case for Nebraska winning the game

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Speaker 2: or competing in this game to actually take the points,

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Speaker 2: and I can't, so I'm taking Illinois. But it should

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Speaker 2: definitely spook out ALLIONI fans who they they're now confident enough,

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Speaker 2: kind of rightfully, so where they start penciling in games

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Speaker 2: like this. Yeah, I'm not there yet.

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Speaker 1: No, I think that's fair. They're remaining games, by the way,

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Speaker 1: if they make it past Nebraska, if you truly are

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Speaker 1: feeling ten and two, Yeah, Michigan State, Purdue at Michigan

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Speaker 2: It's look if you're isn't it the Seth Davis? Is

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Speaker 2: he the college basketball Yeah, like says Sharpie, right, when

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Speaker 2: he's very confident about a game, he's not writing it

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Speaker 2: and he's not penciling, and he's writing it Sharpie. I

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Speaker 2: think this will go a long way to transitioning the

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Speaker 2: Ali and I from pencil to sharpie. If you're able

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Speaker 2: to win a game like this, which they should take

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Speaker 2: care of business against the Nebraska team who's just kind

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Speaker 2: of a wild card at this point. It goes a

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Speaker 2: long way to me.

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Speaker 1: By the way.

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Speaker 2: Illinois, just in terms of numbers, they cover their point

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Speaker 2: spreads more dramatically than anybody else. Twelve point eight points

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Speaker 2: is their average cover at this point. That's first in

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Speaker 2: the nation. It's pretty good ty seventy one percent against

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Speaker 2: the spread this year