Top Favorites to Win the 2025 National Championship

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00:00Let's take a look at some of the favorites here in the race to win the national championship.

00:04It's no surprise. It's Ohio State by a long and wide margin here, a plus 195.

00:09Indiana at a plus 550 price, A&M at 7-1, Alabama 9-1, and there's Notre Dame sitting at 10-1.

00:16Now we see the two teams at the top of the standings here, Joe, and the odds market both

00:20from the Big Ten. I love Indiana, but Indiana pulling one out at Penn State,

00:25does that fracture you a little bit or it's like, no, tough place to play,

00:29still got talent at Penn State, just give them credit for the win,

00:31or does that sort of put a little bit of a damper saying,

00:34ooh, I don't know if they can battle Ohio State when they're going to meet?

00:38None of it matters, honey. Nobody's going to remember that you squeaked one out

00:42in Happy Valley against Penn State that, well, who you hadn't beaten in Lord knows how long.

00:48But yeah, it's only going to matter on what comes down to it when it matters the most,

00:53which will be eventually Ohio State's end in a postseason.

00:57So we saw them do this last year. They made it and then didn't work out all that well.

01:02They got the snot beat out of them in that last game against Ohio State,

01:06and then they got trucked in the postseason.

01:08So let's see if things are truly different for Signetti and Indiana this year.

01:13See, he makes me laugh. Like even that pre-kickoff interview where they get you before

01:18like the kickoff there, hey, Signetti, you guys never win at Indiana.

01:22He's like, these guys never played here at Penn State.

01:24I'm like, well, are you worried about anything? There's no time to worry.

01:27Like we're about to kick off here. I hated the guy last year.

01:30I absolutely love him this year as it stands at this point.

01:33But if you are looking at those standings, they're going to change.

01:36Some of these things are going to happen.

01:37Let me ask you a quick question when we're looking about futures here.

01:39Because Ohio State, Indiana, there's a legitimate chance,

01:42they're going to play twice before you get to a championship,

01:45once in the Big Ten final and maybe once in the playoffs here.

01:48How do you view that matchup where it's odd?

01:51Because in the past, it was like, okay, you're going to get to this game.

01:54You're both undefeated. Somebody's going to lose and be out.

01:56The fact of the matter is that you're in that, yes, you want to win

01:59and get the higher seed, but it's kind of funny that they could play twice.

02:04Listen, any given Saturday, right?

02:06It really does, anytime, anything is possible here.

02:11And it always comes down to the same thing.

02:13It's rinse and repeat here, Donnie, right?

02:14So Ohio State, the big game for them, forget Indiana.

02:18They're not even thinking about Indiana right now.

02:20They got – Brian Day has got to get past Michigan.

02:23That's the first obstacle here.

02:26And then Indiana, okay, then the –

02:29so usually this always comes down to, oh, my –

02:32is Brian Day going to lose to Michigan again?

02:34And then the whole world will be collapsing with Ohio State fans,

02:38and then he'll come back and beat the snot out of Indiana

02:40and all will be right in the world here.

02:42I'm not stepping in front of this train with Ohio State

02:45because we've seen this train before, Donnie.

02:48And everything that's being reported right now is that apparently

02:52Ohio State's not even – hasn't even opened up the playbook yet.

02:56They haven't even really – they're still in second gear.

02:59Apparently there's a third and fourth gear on this offense

03:02that apparently Ryan Day is telling everyone,

03:05yeah, we're going to start to ramp it up a little bit here

03:07over the next couple of weeks.

03:08So who are we to argue they are the national champions after all?

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