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Podcast: Cover 3 College Football Episode: Big Ten Win Totals Part 1: Indiana, Iowa, Michigan & MORE | Preseason AP Poll Reaction! 👀 Segment: Oregon podcast segment **Top Team-Specific Takeaways** - You've got the games on the other side, you know, your Oregon, your Ohio State. - I'm slightly under Indiana, Oregon, Ohio State, absolutely take business against like just take care of business against the rest of this conference. Transcript excerpt: It especially thought of up. I've got this seven and five. I've got this like very firmly seven and five. You mentioned the two games where I would say that this Illinois team is outclass, you know, play in Oregon, play in Ohio State. And then I think that what you will find as we start to peel back the rest of this conference is I might look at some of those other spots as not as much a layups as possible. I mean, this is to me, a schedule where you've got like on one side, the games that I agree with you three and you know, in the noncon feel pretty good about them winning those. You've got the games on the other side, you know, your Oregon, your Ohio State. And I just think that there's going to be a few more toss ups in between that could get a little tricky. I think going to play at UCLA could get a little bit tricky. You know, the that run. I mean, after the Oregon game are games where right now, I'm saying, yeah, Illinois is going to be favored in a couple of those games, if not most of those games. But if you're taking a couple injuries, if things have are is the depth built out to where you can definitely continue to come up on the right side of coin flips. I've got it seven and five, which, hey, for a for what I do think is going to be a reset year, Tom, seven and five being your reset year. I would say is the sign of a healthy program. I'm not talking to you for the rest of the show. You know, it's kind of crazy because I understand some of these years were James Madison and the Sunbelt, but Kurt Signetty is 46 and six as an FBS head coach. 16 and O is going to do a lot there in terms of being able to run the numbers up, but 46 and six as an FBS head coach. Those are like Ryan Day numbers, which is why he's being considered along with Ryan Day as one of the best coaches, not just in the Big Ten, but in the entire country. Now, it's going to be tested as he does continue to evolve in terms of the roster that they've got, not taking quite as many portal additions, trying to rely a little bit more on player retention and player development. The schedule itself is going to provide more challenges than they faced in the first two years of Big Ten play. Like eight and four comes up a lot in the modeling. So I am going to be slightly under here. So I was going to bet the over I would pay up for the seven and a half minus dollar 80, minus dollar 86, whatever it is. So I'm slightly under Indiana, Oregon, Ohio State, absolutely take business against like just take care of business against the rest of this conference. And I do think that everybody's elevated. I also think those teams are still, you know, really quite good. Iowa at Minnesota Penn State is not a lock to be three and a half, right? You know, if you go one in three, Oklahoma, Indiana at Oregon and Ohio State, then you have to sweep Iowa at Minnesota Penn State to hit this over. So I see eight and four coming up quite often. And I'm going to be under here, but like Babyloa is practicing in the lineup. John Hinner Daily, like we've seen clips from this weekend is like already practicing and like in the lineup, but there are a lot of encouraging signs here. Like everybody's talking about how good the cannon is. Like we are very in like we're we're we're hider hive for sure. But I still like numbers matter. And so I'll be under here. Like I don't know if I want to be part of a hive with a guy who has that name because it's a. We were doing some all American ballot, you know, tabulations, and I had to send some tricky text messages.