Tennessee vs. Ohio State: A Potential Upset in Columbus

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00:00Tennessee and Ohio State. Josh Heupel and the Vols will have to take a trip to Columbus.

00:09Night game in late December. Not ideal, but Heupel says the Vols will be ready for it.

00:15Not sure what the temperature will be up there at night. I know it won't be sunny in 85.

00:22We played in 30 degree weather a week ago. For us, a lot of our practices are in the

00:29morning. We're outside. It will be similar temperatures to what you're going to get up

00:35there. Our guys got to be able to handle anything that comes at them. That's weather,

00:40it's outside distractions, it's us getting ready to go be our best 11-on-11 between the

00:46white lines. We'll be ready to handle that and operate at a high level. After I watched Ohio

00:55State against Michigan in Columbus, they looked good against Indiana in Columbus,

01:01but against Michigan they looked awful. Tennessee's a really good team. They can

01:07play with Ohio State in Columbus. I think they got a shot to win that game. I really do. I'm

01:13not afraid of Ohio State like most people think you should be. We've already seen them lose games.

01:20They lost to Oregon. They screwed that up. They should have perhaps won that game,

01:26but they didn't manage the end of the game right in the clock. Then you saw them lay an egg against

01:31Michigan. The only game they really played well against I thought was Penn State and Indiana. I

01:38think Tennessee's going to give them a run for their money. I think Tennessee will absolutely

01:44give them a run for their money. I think they can win the game outright. I'll show you in a

01:49moment what the number is. I like that number a lot. Last one I'll give you today is Sark. I'll

01:54give you a few more tomorrow. Coaches, that is, when we do that preview of all the bowl games and

01:59some of the college football playoff games. Here's Sarkesian. Very excited to be part of

02:04this first 12-team college football playoff. Very exciting. We're the 5 seed. We get to play a 12

02:10seed in a team like Clemson, a team who's been a perennial college football playoff team. I think

02:17Coach Sweeney's done a fantastic job at Clemson. You don't win two national titles over a 17-year

02:23period, multiple appearances in the CFP, numerous ACC conference championships. They've got a

02:31championship program. The fact that we've never played them, that Texas has never played Clemson

02:36in football, the first time will be in the inaugural 12-team college football playoff right

02:42here at DKR, I think is very exciting. I think they're better. I really do. I think Texas is

02:49better. I think they'll win that game and then they're gonna have their hands full after that.

02:54I think that next game will be their true test, but I think they'll handle Clemson. Clemson's

02:59lucky they're in this. No doubt. Clemson is lucky that they're in this. That's pretty amazing. First

03:06time they've ever played Clemson in Texas will be in this matchup in the college because they've

03:11been around two big names in college football that have never faced each other before. That's

03:16pretty strange. Here's the numbers for the four first round games that we will have as of right

03:22now. Notre Dame minus seven and a half against Indiana. Ten and a half for Texas against Clemson.

03:29You've got eight and a half right now for Penn State up to nine. I'm seeing nine. We're on that.

03:34Nine and a half for them and then you have Ohio State seven and a half against Tennessee. The

03:41first round of the college football playoff. I mean those are some big spreads. I mean honestly.

03:46Those are no close ones. I mean honestly. Indiana I think can score with Notre Dame. They can score

03:53with anybody. I think Texas will win that game. That's a giant number though and the question is

03:59I think Penn State will beat SMU. I really do. They can beat teams that are good not great and

04:06then look at that seven and a half with the Vols. I'd be interested in that right at this point. I

04:11want to see if that number changes. That's very juicy. That's seven and a half with the Vols

04:18because I because the Vols have a Vols are a very physical tough defense and I've seen this kid

04:25Howard get pushed around by Michigan and I and he had all kinds of problems. So I think that

04:30Tennessee is going to be able to handle like Hypel was just talking about going into Columbus. I

04:35think that that's our chance for maybe an outright upset out of there. But Indiana is going to you

04:40know Rourke is taking them up and down the field. I don't know if Riley Leonard and you know could

04:46go blow for blow with that. I think the Irish need to play a low scoring great defensive game run the

04:51football and kind of drag Indiana down like Ohio State did and even like Michigan did even though

04:58it didn't beat them. They got to play a game like that against Indiana to win. Indiana can run the

05:03ball too. They're good at that.

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