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Talkin’ Bout The Hoosiers – Indiana Football Playoff Reaction
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Dec 11, 2024
The HoosierIllustrated.com staff hops on an emergency podcast of Talkin’ Bout The Hoosiers to give their immediate reactions to College Football Playoff rankings and the first round matchup for Indiana football. Kyler Staley, John Alden, and Drew Rosenberg breakdown how Indiana football matches up in the rankings, plus their overall thoughts on the rankings and first round matchups. That and more on this breaking news episode of the Talkin’ Bout the Hoosiers podcast.
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welcome in everyone talk about the
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hooers podcast presented by hooer
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illustrate. comom live reaction to
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Indiana football being ranked inside the
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college football playoff rankings the
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final one the number 10 team in the
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seaing number eight overall joined by
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John Alden Kyler Staley John I'm just
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gonna start with you initial thoughts of
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the rankings let just throw you in the
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uh it's it's exactly what I wanted I
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wanted in Indiana I mean other than IND
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Indiana hosting a game if Indiana was
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going to be traveling anywhere I
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absolutely wanted them to go up to South
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Bend and face of of course Notre Dame
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Fighting
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Irish a game if Indiana was going
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to from
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somebody someone where coming from okay
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are we good yeah got it okay yeah anyway
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uh excited for Indiana to travel to
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Notre Dame uh of course I mean I think
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you already mentioned before he got
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rolling drew that they're eight and a
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half Point underdogs I don't think that
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matters of course is Indian gonna be
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ready to play no matter who they face
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but I think the the draw it couldn't
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have been anything better when it comes
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to being on the road and going to one of
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the host
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teams for sure I mean I think when you
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looked at potential matchups I think a
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lot of people myself included kind of
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circled Notre Damon that team like hey
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this is a team like you know could be a
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favorable match up with Indiana for a
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lot of reasons especially on the road
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because it's you know in the state of
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Indiana so it's for sure I feel like
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there's going to be a good amount of
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Indiana fan support in the crowd which
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you know for Notre Dame it's you know
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it's not the best draw for them I think
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when you're looking at that when they're
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like oh we could have got a Tennessee or
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you know SMU a team that probably
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wouldn't have traveled as well now you
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have don't get the HomeField Advantage
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as strong as you know they probably
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hoped yeah I'm Kyler I'll go ahead and
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toss over I want to hear your thoughts
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on this too but I think Indiana will
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travel well uh we one of you all mention
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the ticket prices again before we got
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rolling
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$550 um I will not be in attendance
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unfortunately I am a poor and cannot
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afford that but I will enjoy watching
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this game from the comfort of my house
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and uh it will be a good time I just
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can't believe we're here we're g to be
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watching Indiana hooers football in
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December in a playoff game against a
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somebody where I mean the instate
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rivalry even though it's not really a
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football rivalry there's always the talk
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of Indiana basketball fans and Notre
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Dame football fans you can't really do
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that here anymore we needs to everything
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needs to get you know brought out onto
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the field duke it out fans need to
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choose a side there's none of this ywy
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nonsense you're either an Indiana fan or
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you're a Notre Dame fan and uh this will
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be you know bringing all that to
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fruition I guess it's a Christmas
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miracle right it's still so surreal that
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uh um that Indiana's even in this
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position that we're even even talking
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about this right now but you know
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reaction to me quick reaction I think
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it's a great draw for Indiana I really
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do you've got Georgia you know lingering
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on the other side or whatever but here's
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the thing it's like no matter what the
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draw was going to be Indiana's playing
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with house money right now nobody
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expected us to be here no one expect us
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like I'm on the team nobody expected
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Indiana um to be here um except for Kurt
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cetti and then the players obviously
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expected to be here as well but I mean
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you look at it like at Notre Dame I mean
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it's just a perfect storyline in a lot
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of ways because Notre Dame when it comes
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to the state of Indiana state of Indiana
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is obviously a basketball state and
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everything but when it comes to the
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football category it's Notre Dame and
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it's always been Notre Dame and right
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now in the not only has the perfect
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opportunity to advance into the college
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football playoff but to beat Notre Dame
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and then take that crown of saying hey
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we are the football school now or
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whatever and it's just it's just a
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perfect storm and I I do expect Indiana
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fans to absolutely take over Notre dve I
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think you're GNA see a uh a sea of red
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when it comes to at South Ben I think
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Notre Dame fans are probably going to go
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into this game um Notre Dame fans and I
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think the Notre Dame football team are
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going to go into this game and probably
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take Indiana very very lightly
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I I think that's just how they are if
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you know Notre D fan their egos are very
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very uh very very high on themselves so
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um and that's no no uh no knock on them
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that's just kind of how they are but um
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it's just awesome to see and you know
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the fact you look at the other you know
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college football playoff spots or
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whatever I think the committee got it
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right when it comes to SMU or Alabama
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yeah I I'll take that I think that was
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the right decision to go and then other
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than that I feel like it was a perfect
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you know I thought the committee did a
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really really good job there's really no
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other controversial things or anything
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like that strength the schedule out the
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window who cares about that I think they
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got the right teams in at the right time
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I'm gonna I'm gonna disagree with that
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Kyler I think Penn State kind of got
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luck I think Penn State got a really
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favorable draw and I think they almost
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got rewarded for losing I think Penn
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State has by far the best draw you get
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SMU at home and then you have Boise
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State if you beat them so if you're
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Oregon and you're looking at that like
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oh okay like so if we lost that game and
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maybe we would have got that kind of
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draw instead now they have to play the
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winner of Tennessee Ohio State which is
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one of the probably going to be the most
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like exciting game in that first round
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so if you're or I want to add something
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on to that real quick too you mentioned
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SMU that's who ends up that's who Penn
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State ends up getting I don't understand
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how you know after you just had this
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head-to-head matchup last night between
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SMU and Clemson and Clemson wins on that
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last second field goal you still see SMU
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one spot better than the Tigers I don't
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know if that's because Clemson as the
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final conference Champion automatically
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gets the 12 seed if that's not the case
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then the only thing that really doesn't
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make sense to me is is giving the
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Mustangs a better draw than than Clemson
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well so Clemson was the 13th ranked team
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in the or 16 I think actually they
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weren't inside the top 12 for the
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rankings but they get the spot because
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so they had him still below I think
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Alabama Miss and South Carolina it's
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still weird after you after you beat a
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team who's better better than you and
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you're again it's just the way of the
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this new system I guess I agree but it's
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hard because you couldn't drop you can't
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drop um South Carolina below Clemson I
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think just because South Carolina just
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beat him in Clemson yeah so one of those
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things if you do that then you for sure
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knock SMU out and I don't think they
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wanted to punish
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SMU I also think that's a little sorry
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to cut you off Drew but I think that's a
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little irrelevant too because South
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Carolina's at a completely different
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conference so um to me I don't think it
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would matter when it comes to the final
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rankings obviously these these final
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rankings don't really matter right now
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unless you're in the college football
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playoff really um but I I do agree with
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you John I do think it is a little weird
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pretty much that what it tells me is
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that all Clemson did was just solidify a
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a playoff spot that's all they did it
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didn't matter you know what was going to
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happen it sounds like to me that SMU was
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gonna be in no matter what and they
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could have maybe if they would have
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gotten blown out maybe that's a
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different story but the fact that SMU
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you know took him down to the wire or
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whatever and proved and that final
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quarter really proved that like hey we
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are a playoff team I think that's pretty
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big but um the good thing about this is
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too it's like you know where would we be
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right now if Indiana happened to play in
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the Big 10 championship and they would
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have gotten beat by Oregon I I think
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we're very very fortunate to not really
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have to uh see that scenario or whatever
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I think Indiana did a really good job of
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flying under the radar a little bit um
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this past week and honestly it just
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worked out a ton I'll tell you what I I
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I like them playing at Notre Dame better
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that I would have liked them playing at
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either Texas or
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Georgia no for sure well here's the
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thing about I mean they're going to get
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their chance at Georgia if they beaten
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Notre Dame and speaking of that Georgia
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team I mean not only is this a team that
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is more than likely going to be without
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their starting quarterback maybe not I
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don't know he's going to have some time
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to heal up I don't know exactly what um
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Carson Beck's injury was whenever he
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went down at halftime against Texas
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yesterday they're going to have Gunner
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stocked in their backup quarterback and
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on top of that George
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has kind of been flying by the seat of
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their pants the last few weeks I mean
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I've talked about the the eight overtime
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game against Georgia Tech on their home
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field I don't think there's anything
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scary about The Bull you know this
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particular Georgia team this is not what
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Georgia was a few years ago when they
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were winning back-to-back national
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titles and I'm not saying they're not a
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good team but I don't think they're
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nearly as unbeatable as previous Georgia
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teams what uh what bowl game is it do we
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know what bowl game it would be if they
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play uh play Georgia
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let me take a look
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here it's not the roll B is it yeah it's
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when I'm looking on ESPN's website at
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the moment they don't have all of the
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matchups completely listed out what they
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do have though is we do know what day
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and time Indiana in Notre Friday game
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only Friday game 8 PM actually not true
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Clemson and Texas will be at Friday but
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they don't have a time for that game
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just yet I'm assuming it will be earlier
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in the afternoon since Indiana Notre
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Dame is in prime time so a a 8 o00 at
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under Dame Prime Time a lot of eyes are
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going to be on there so on ABC or
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ESPN wow that that's big so you know
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you're gonna have big uh big
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commentators on that one right maybe you
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can get Kirk herb Street probably so you
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might get little K herb Street 8 o'clock
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at night in South Bend
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yes that's just funny to even think
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about because we shouldn't be talking
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about this right now we should be
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talking about what in the comment
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section mentions that Indiana would Face
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Georgia in the Sugar Bowl by the way I
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think they do that based off of
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conference ties they try to give the the
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bll sight for whoever the higher seated
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team is uh whatever their previous
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conference affiliation with so the Sugar
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Bowl that would check out for for
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Georgia being involved with that and
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here here's the here's the thing too
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even though that is you know kind of in
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Georgia's little area or whatever and
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stuff it's still a neutral sight game
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and I think Indiana fans are going to
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travel pretty well to you obviously got
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to take care of Notre Dame first so
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we're jumping ahead of ourselves but if
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the scenario is that we beat Notre Dame
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um obviously if would uh it would just
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open up an opportunity for all the
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Indiana fans to go and stuff so um the
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good thing about this is too is like
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you've got pretty much close to two
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weeks to get ready and get right for
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this game so um that that's also a major
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advantage when it comes to these playoff
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teams um that are in this yeah I want to
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talk about that game for a little bit um
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a n Dame it's strength against strength
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when you look at these two teams you
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look at nor Dame's strength on offense
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they've run the football Jeremiah um
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Jeremiah Love is one of the better
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running backs in the country I mean if
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you you've watched nerd a play you can
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see that it's pretty clear they run the
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ball really well and then you look at
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Indiana's defense it's a the run defense
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has kind of been the calling card for
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Brian Haynes all year it's been the
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front seven the linebackers Aiden
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Fischer Jaylen Walker playing behind
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Carpenter CJ West and can't forget Mel
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Kamara so that kind of matchup I mean
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obviously you know we have two weeks
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until this game but that's the matchup
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that really sticks out to me just
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looking at this game on
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paper apologies realized I turned my
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microphone off but looking at Notre
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Dame's last five games early on in the
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season and even if you look back at last
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year Notre Dame had been known for not
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really being much of an offensive
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Powerhouse but you look at what they've
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done basically since late October 51
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points 52 points 35 points 49 points and
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49 points this is more than likely going
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to be in some form or another an
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offensive shootout between the hooers
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and the Fighting Irish and I think you
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mentioned it just a second ago Drew kind
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of Notre Dame's rushing attack versus
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Indiana's passing attack and depending
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on what type of weather conditions we
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get on that Friday night game it I mean
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it could be you know I don't know whose
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strength will prevail but it could be a
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a number of different factors that
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determine what ends up happening in that
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game yeah nerd Dames ran for multiple
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touchdowns every game this year they've
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um I think they've had over 200 rushing
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yards in eight of 12 games and 198 in
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one of the other like this I mean
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they're going to run the football
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against Indiana Riley Leonard you know
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he was a big transfer this offseason at
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quarterback from duke but hasn't been
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the best thrower of the football and I
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think we're going to see Indiana try to
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test him and make Riley Leonard beat
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them instead of jeremi love in the
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rushing attack dude I'm I'm hoping it's
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a very snowy like heavy snow type of
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game or whatever in South Bend because
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up there I mean they do get a lot of
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snow around this time so I hoping it's
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that and I noticed when we were watching
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uh um the selection show or whatever
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they were laughing at uh the Notre Dame
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like suits and everything how they were
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all white so if Notre Dame's gonna wear
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an all white jersey that's gonna be even
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better with that so I will say I bet
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Notre Dame is slightly disappointed that
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they're not having a team from the south
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come up and play in those potential
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conditions because as we all know
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Indiana just played in a snow globe game
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of their own where they completely
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dismantled Purdue so they know they're
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potentially getting a team or not even
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potentially they're getting a team that
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has already had experience this year in
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those types of
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conditions yeah absolutely so um I guess
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I'm gonna I'm gonna put you guys on the
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spot here final projection is Indiana
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gonna beat Notre D already
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final two weeks out um I mean we got do
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it got do it I think eight and a half
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spread I think over under I want to say
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was like 50 and a half I'll pull that up
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right now um over under is 51 and a half
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I I gotta see the like Kyler you're
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putting me on the spot way too early
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right now to like I've got I've got an
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answer for you honestly the the the
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pessimist to me right now is coming out
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because I may change this as we get
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closer this is just the way that it
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works but right now I'm thinking I don't
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know if it goes into
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overtime but I'm thinking
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2421 Notre Dame in another snow and I
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know I was just talking about the
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offenses but I think if you get a a
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weather game that's not necessarily the
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most favorable or clear conditions you
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won't see as much scoring especially in
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a highly contested game when Indiana fac
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Purdue that was two totally different
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teams that don't belong on the same
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field together this is not the going to
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be that so I'm predicting 24-21 Notre
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Dame right now I hope that doesn't end
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up painting out that way but we we'll
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see what happens when we get closer to
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the game actually Drew you thinking the
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same way or no I'm I'm leaning right
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like it's what's gonna happen is right
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now I'm leaning that Notre Dame's gonna
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win this game close but by the time you
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know the next 10 12 days kind of creep
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up on me and we're getting close to the
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game I'm going to be fully convinced
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that Indiana's going to win so I'm going
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to reserve it's just how it works with
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this team every time Kurt cetti speaks
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you know gets the juices going gets that
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energy you know he has that spark and
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it's one of those things it's it's why
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people love him so much as a coach it's
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because you know that energy that
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confidence that he boasts and it's
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especially you know coming from Tom
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Allen who is pretty reserved in the way
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he spoke wasn't very like boisterous so
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going from that to cetti it's just such
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a you know it's a culture change and he
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gets you like fired up believing in the
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impossible and you know we've seen the
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impossible this year if you told any of
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us Indiana would be in this position I
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think we would all would have probably
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laughed called crazy but look uh you
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know look where we are now absolutely
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I'm I'm going to stick on the same path
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I guess this is not going to be a
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blowout by any means one team's not
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going to blow out the other I think it's
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going to be a very very close game the
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key for Indiana is they're playing up
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against Notre Dame and I know we're kind
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of joking around you know the
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possibility of Indiana being able to be
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Notre Dame it's still Notre Dame and
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they're still a really really good
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football program and we got to take that
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to account for Indiana to win this game
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they're GNA have to play perfect perfect
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St on both sides of the ball take care
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of Curtis work obviously limit the
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turnovers the offensive Line's gonna
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have to be tremendous that game and just
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rely on your defense you know the
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defense has got to step up they can't
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have laughes or anything I like no I
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think Notre Dame's gonna probably win it
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close but I think Indiana's goingon to
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go down fighting no matter what happens
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in this game and but it's going to be
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extremely exciting to watch what's crazy
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is if you're looking at
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who exposed Notre Dame this year it's a
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team that no one you're going to be
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looking at Northern Illinois philm and
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not that you want to look too heavily at
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that because you do want to see what
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Notre Dame does well which they've done
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especially late in the season but
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Northern Illinois was able to completely
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exploit the Fighting Irish during their
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early game this season and I again maybe
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they've I'm sure since that was so early
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on they've cleaned a lot of those issues
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up but you still want to try to find
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ways to expose them and there's only
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been one team that's been able to do it
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of course in a way that resulted in a
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victory and that was the Huskies from
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the Mac yeah and then also the
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Louisville Louisville played him tough
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too so I think you're gonna be looking
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shot themselves in the foot when they
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played him Lou very well could have beat
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them that game yeah and you're gonna
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probably I mean if you're Kur you're
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watch gonna go back watch that game and
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see you know what Louisville did but I
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want to talk about the Ohio State game a
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little bit IU you know obviously
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disappointing loss up at the shoe I
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think that game could wind up being you
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know a little bit of a blessing in
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disguise now heading into this game
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because there's not many harder placers
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to go play a game than big game at the
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now you go to South Bend nerd Dame tough
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environment tough game but Indiana you
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know they've seen it they've heard the
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bright lights they've heard the loud
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noise they you know they had trouble
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they struggled but you learn from that
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you know they bounced back against
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Purdue and I want to see I guess how
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they bounc back or how they respond in a
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big environment on the road once again
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after you know kind of shooting
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themselves in the foot against Ohio
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State yeah go ahead John me okay going
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to you Kyler go ahead John yeah with the
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with with the Ohio State game and you
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know all the stuff that went wrong in
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that game I think it's a good thing that
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Indiana's already kind of had a matchup
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where it's not that they weren't
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prepared because they were definitely
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ready they look prepared on that opening
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drive in that game first couple of
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drives really uh but then when when
17:48
things started going wrong again we've
17:50
talked about how this team has had very
17:52
minimal adversity until that point right
17:54
and now they've they've had that
17:56
experience I think they'll be less
17:58
rattled in situations whenever Notre
17:59
Dame is pressuring them and so I I
18:02
definitely expect a better response I
18:03
don't expect nearly as many special
18:05
teams gffs but then of course when you
18:07
when you throw in crazy you know
18:09
potential crazy weather conditions that
18:10
could be something that I mean you never
18:12
know what type of miscues can happen
18:14
whenever you get super snowy games and I
18:17
know we're talking about that a lot like
18:19
it's a certain thing there's no
18:20
guarantee that it's going to be bad
18:22
weather when Indiana travels up to South
18:24
Bend it's just something that when you
18:26
think about mid to late December there's
18:28
always that off chance that you get
18:30
something like that so you do have to
18:31
put that at least into some form of
18:33
consideration and we've never seen a
18:35
playoff game you know in an outside
18:37
venue right if if I'm crazy to think
18:39
about that I mean most of the time these
18:41
four games well it's it's always been
18:43
the top four teams obviously but it's
18:44
always been in Dums right so um the
18:47
weather will be a factor I I think in a
18:49
lot of ways it's still going to be cold
18:50
it's not like it's going to be warm or
18:51
anything it's still going to be
18:53
extremely cold so that's obviously GNA
18:54
play a factor but in real time while you
18:56
were talking John I'm getting like
18:58
notific that the ticket prices for this
19:00
is already up to like over
19:02
$1,000 yeah not the Super
19:07
Bowl $20 off this is the first round
19:11
this is the first round hey it's Indiana
19:14
it's the Indiana football fan Super Bowl
19:16
though if you think about it like that I
19:18
just hate it I've not been to a game
19:19
this year and I KN I knew tickets would
19:21
be expensive and honestly it's it's my
19:24
it's kind of my own fault for not
19:25
finding a way to get up there this year
19:27
but there are there were a lot of things
19:28
things that kept me from getting to
19:29
Bloomington on certain weekends I was
19:31
really wanting to make it up to Nebraska
19:33
Midway season but that was the day where
19:35
Indiana and of course the Louisville
19:37
team that I helped cover we playing at
19:38
the exact same time it's just you know
19:40
things don't always work out in your
19:41
favor right makes like Alabama things
19:44
didn't work out in their favor today if
19:45
it makes you feel better if Indiana did
19:47
this last year or like what any or any
19:49
of the past four years you know I would
19:51
probably been able to go for like
19:52
relatively cheap as a student you know
19:54
they they wait till the year I graduate
19:56
to do this so then you know can't get
19:58
those $50 tickets yeah let's talk about
20:02
Nick Sabin real quick Kyler go ahead I
20:04
don't mean to interrup I want talk about
20:07
baby I I do I do plan on being there um
20:10
as a media member so um hopefully that
20:13
we can have a couple people from who are
20:15
Illustrated that will be there to cover
20:16
the game but go ahead John no I say I
20:19
think it's time to go and talk about
20:20
Nick Sabin and I know he's a part of
20:23
ESPN's you know college game day
20:25
coverage I don't know if he's ever
20:26
usually on these ranking shows I don't
20:28
think he has been unless I've missed a
20:30
couple of them but to see him begin the
20:33
show the way that he did like they don't
20:36
they haven't even shown the rankings at
20:38
this point and he's already crying and
20:40
whining about Alabama and and why they
20:43
need to be in when of course you know
20:44
this the committee has already made
20:45
their decision at this point it's almost
20:48
as if he knew that things were not going
20:50
to go the Crimson Tide's favor and then
20:52
he continued to do that after the fact
20:54
talking about how there's no point in
20:56
playing a tough schedule at this point
20:59
in this you know era of college football
21:01
when the reason that Alabama is not in
21:03
it's not because of their strength of
21:05
schedule it's because two of your three
21:07
losses were to six and six teams
21:10
Oklahoma you got destroyed by 24 to3 and
21:13
then you lose and and what may have been
21:15
a bit of a fluky game to Vanderbilt but
21:18
again still a mediocre Vanderbilt team
21:21
and on top of that you all you throw in
21:22
the third loss to Georgia that should be
21:25
more than enough to put SMU in the field
21:28
over Al abama I don't think Alabama has
21:30
any argument to be the top 12 and I'm
21:32
glad that the committee didn't falter
21:35
and throw them in there just because of
21:37
the brand bias yeah I mean it's the
21:40
definition of brand bi I mean you saw
21:42
Signet kind of talking about it with IU
21:45
you know you give IU a blue and gold a
21:48
blue and Maze M instead of the IU emblem
21:51
you know where does Indiana fall in the
21:53
rankings it could be different and I
21:55
think with Bama I mean Bama was the I
21:57
think they finished it the 12 in the um
22:00
in the actual rankings but because
22:02
Clemson jumps him and it's the old
22:04
thing's weird bam did not deserve to be
22:06
in it you said it I mean yeah they had a
22:09
tougher schedule than some of the teams
22:10
like SMU even Indiana they had a tougher
22:12
schedule but they also lost the bad
22:15
teams it wasn't like their losses if
22:17
those three losses came you know and it
22:18
was they lost to Georgia Texas and ol
22:21
miss you know three good teams it's one
22:24
thing but you lost to Oklahoma by three
22:26
scores and then you lost to Vander
22:29
built it's I mean you did it to yourself
22:31
it's not like you have no one to blame
22:33
but yourself for not making into the
22:35
playoff I strictly love Alabama not
22:38
being on this just because of the SEC
22:39
bias it was so old and I tweeted out
22:42
this morning I was watching the uh I
22:43
don't know if you guys watched any of
22:45
like the pre like selection show or
22:46
whatever that was on esbn 2 this morning
22:48
but they had Paul fine bomb on there
22:50
again and again he just shows what a
22:52
clown he is and what an SEC Homer he is
22:55
um it's just obviously he he gets his
22:57
paychecks from the SEC because he's got
22:59
his SEC network and all that stuff but
23:02
um it's just you know an absolute clown
23:04
show and I'm going to give major props
23:05
to the committee for not falling into
23:08
that SEC bias because they very easily
23:10
could have and they did a really good
23:12
job I think the SEC teams that got in
23:14
absolutely deserve to be in if they
23:15
would have snuck in Alabama and over an
23:18
SMU team that you know like Indiana
23:20
pretty similar to Indiana can't control
23:22
their schedule a whole lot they play who
23:24
they play the ACC is not what it used to
23:27
be when it comes to football but you
23:29
know they could have easily snuck in
23:30
Alabama and I'm really glad that they
23:32
didn't because SMU they showed a lot of
23:33
fight last night in that ACC
23:35
Championship game and they 100%
23:37
absolutely deserve to be in the whole
23:40
argument that it's the hypotheticals the
23:42
oh if Alabama matched up against SMU the
23:44
spread would be this I think it's the
23:46
dumbest argument you had 12 games some
23:48
teams had 13 to show you belong in this
23:51
playoff you had all the chances in the
23:52
world you just take care of business
23:54
against the teams you're supposed to
23:55
beat and what happens oh Alabama would
23:57
have been in the playoffs Alabama beats
24:00
um Oklahoma and Vanderbilt two teams
24:02
they definitely should have beaten they
24:04
probably end up being um in the SEC or
24:07
they would have been in the SEC
24:08
Championship and probably it would have
24:09
had a really good chance to beat Texas
24:11
to be the number one or number one or or
24:13
number two overall seed in this whole
24:14
turnour in this whole bracket so the
24:17
whole SEC Bama should have got in it's
24:20
really dumb the hypothetical argument oh
24:22
Alabama would hypothetically beat
24:24
Indiana Indiana played 12 games in 11 of
24:26
them they beat their or 10 of them they
24:28
beat their opponents by more than two
24:30
scores the only one they didn't was
24:32
Michigan where they defending national
24:34
champs in Ohio State Indiana did what
24:36
they were um did against their schedule
24:38
Alabama didn't take care of business
24:40
it's the reason they're not in and the
24:41
whole SEC brand bias it's really
24:44
frustrating is you know when you're
24:45
following another school but then you go
24:48
to the like I will be the first to say I
24:49
think the SEC is the best football
24:51
conference in the country but that does
24:52
not mean they should get forced in over
24:54
teams that have more deserving resumes
24:56
like an SMU and I was happy to see the
24:57
committee you know stuck to their guns
24:59
and kept SMU in last thing on this is
25:02
the annoying thing we keep saying or is
25:04
that that people keep saying is that oh
25:06
you already mentioned this Dre Alabama
25:07
would be favored by SMU well they were
25:09
favored by 21 points over Vanderbilt and
25:12
lost that game I don't know how many
25:14
points they were favored by against
25:15
Oklahoma but I'm sure they were favored
25:17
in that game they lost that game by
25:19
three scores so that argument means
25:21
absolutely nothing the hypotheticals are
25:23
nonsense and I'm glad that I'm just glad
25:27
that it's done we finally know the real
25:28
field it's over hooers are in they're
25:31
going to Southbend and we we I'm finally
25:35
looking at this link of the apparel that
25:36
you all were sh talking about before the
25:38
thing started too and the stuff looks
25:39
really nice and now I just kind of
25:40
veered off into app for those uh for
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those watching right now HomeField
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25:58
yeah honestly my uh my DMs are open my
26:00
DMs are open let's uh let's talk about
26:02
it so um but no um I guess we can kind
26:06
of I guess wrap this up a little bit
26:07
guys any closing thoughts on your guys'
26:09
end when it comes to
26:11
this you want me to go first uh my
26:13
closing thoughts is I I look forward to
26:17
just seeing the buildup over the next
26:19
couple of weeks I hope none of Indiana's
26:21
guys of course you know suffer any
26:22
injuries during practice that would of
26:24
course throw uh serious wrenches into
26:27
you know what potentially could happen a
26:29
couple weekends from now but excited to
26:31
see what happens um I really hope it's
26:34
at the very least a competitive game and
26:36
of course ultimately we'll have to see
26:37
them win and move on to play Georgia
26:39
down in New Orleans for the Sugar
26:42
Bowl yeah I mean I I think this is you
26:45
know Indiana you know is a grass like
26:48
alumni like as a fan just someone who
26:50
watch watches every game you know like
26:52
covers this team this was about the best
26:55
match up Indiana could have asked for
26:56
and you know you get that now you got to
26:58
now you got to take care of business no
26:59
Dame I do think they're you know they're
27:01
a very good team obviously third in the
27:03
country in points scored third in the
27:04
country in points um against but this is
27:08
a team Indiana you know like you look at
27:10
them you're like Indiana could like play
27:12
well against this team and you're stay
27:13
in state you're going to have the fan
27:15
support maybe not you know obviously not
27:17
full home field advantage but like there
27:19
is going to be that fan support So
27:20
Indiana I don't want to say they got
27:22
blessed but they I do think they got
27:23
blessed with this um this matchup in
27:27
this ranking
27:29
it's a perfect scenario um my big thing
27:31
is too it's like if you're an Indiana
27:33
fan don't take this for granted don't
27:35
get over you know whelmed with anything
27:37
like that um when it comes to all this
27:39
stuff because I mean Indiana shouldn't
27:41
even be here I mean this it's still the
27:43
craziest thing Indiana is playing with
27:45
house money and I think that they're
27:47
going to come in this team's going to
27:48
compete um they're gonna fight till the
27:50
very end um no matter how the score goes
27:52
or whatever this team's going to be
27:54
ready to go um and they're ready to make
27:56
history they've already made a ton of
27:57
History this year year um they've really
27:59
turned the football program around and
28:02
they've got to this point and they've
28:03
really worked their butts off to get
28:04
here so um it's gonna be fun I cannot
28:07
wait December 20th 8 o'clock I cannot
28:10
wait for this game because um it's just
28:12
going to be really really special yeah I
28:15
mean you said it's house money if even
28:17
if Indiana which I I don't think it's
28:19
gonna happen I don't think any of us
28:20
could happen if they lose they get blown
28:22
up in our game which I i' would be
28:23
shocked by this season was still a
28:26
massive success and that's kind of an
28:28
important thing to remember this was
28:29
supposed to be year one step one of
28:30
signet's rebuild and he did steps one
28:34
two 3 4 5 6 7 8 nine 10 all in one
28:37
season and got to Indiana like if I mean
28:40
if you said this is the peak of where
28:41
cetti was going to get the program and
28:42
it took him 10 years I think every
28:44
Indiana fan would have signed up for it
28:45
immediately if he they knew they'd get
28:47
to the playoff 10 years from now to do
28:49
it in year one is unbelievable whether
28:51
no matter what happens against Notre
28:53
Dame this year has been an unbelievable
28:55
story in success for Signet
28:58
heck yeah put a bow on I agre put a bow
29:01
on it Merry Christmas yeah Merry
29:04
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