Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00When you get excited, when you get prepared, when you get ready for a college football season, you start looking at the calendar, all right?
00:11What are the great non-conference matchups early in the first two, three weeks of the year?
00:15All right, how about as we get deeper into conference play?
00:17Give me those traditional rivalries.
00:19But now in this new era of the sport, we've got some conference games that stand the test of time, even in their first year in these leagues.
00:30And Joe, as you get ready for a new season, you circle the big weekends that you expect to be there, even as teams move up and down in the rankings.
00:38And that is still Saturday, October 12th.
00:41That is still tomorrow.
00:43And that is still week seven of this 2024 college football campaign.
00:48It does not get better, perhaps, than what we have tomorrow night in primetime under the lights inside Autzen Stadium.
00:56It is number two versus number three.
00:59The second-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes on the road in Eugene against the third-ranked Oregon Ducks.
01:06A three-and-a-half-point spread now in favor of the Bucks.
01:11The Ducks have not been a home underdog since the 2018 season.
01:16So, Joe, I ask you, we call this game of the year, too.
01:20The first game of the year designation we gave was for a top-five tilt two Saturdays ago in Tuscaloosa between Georgia and Alabama.
01:29And it lived up to the hype.
01:31Will tomorrow night inside Autzen Stadium as well?
01:35It's so funny, Ben, because the market perception of these two teams could not be any different.
01:42You have Ohio State who, guys, let's be honest here.
01:46Akron, Western Michigan, Marshall, Michigan State, and Iowa.
01:52Not exactly the who's who of offensive juggernauts in college football here.
01:58Ohio State has not been put to the test in any way, shape, or form by anybody yet.
02:04In the meantime, Oregon, it seems like everything is life or death.
02:09Every game that they play comes down to the wire.
02:11But you know what?
02:12They're at home, and they're getting points.
02:15They are undefeated just like Ohio State is.
02:18So I don't get it.
02:20Don't forget, Dylan Gabriel a year ago was with Oklahoma, and guess what he did?
02:25Game-winning drive to end up beating Texas in a big spot, a big moment.
02:30And yet here we are, Ohio State not being tested by any real offense.
02:36This is the biggest offense, the biggest test Ohio State is going to have.
02:40I think that's a huge ask to them being a favorite to go to Oregon and win that game
02:46and cover because the hook is available.
02:49I'm not buying it.
02:50I think Oregon holds serve and wins this game.