00:00Give me your thoughts about both games that will take place Thursday and Friday night and we'll
00:05take a look at the updated odds. Is in fact Indiana the team to beat at the number one seed?
00:12Well first of all I love these teams. The teams that are remaining I think if not the best coming
00:18into the playoffs I think they were the hottest teams now and Ole Miss and Miami especially have
00:25have jumped up in how we perceive their abilities to play to win it all but as you look at the odds
00:32I just can't see any flaws in Indiana. I keep trying to think everybody else has got a flaw
00:38has somewhere where it's not quite there. Obviously Indiana won every game so they've been able to
00:43consistently show it but I just think as I've said most of the second half of the season they check
00:50all the boxes they play offense defense run pass special teams and really well coached and I don't
00:59think they depend on having the best athletes no matter who they play. They have athletes that play
01:04the best at their position and football is a team sport they play the best football as a team and I
01:11think that's what makes them the odds on favorite to win and I think that's going to hold out to the
01:17end. Yeah they do have a rematch with Oregon they went into Eugene earlier in the year and won that
01:24matchup as basically a six and a half point road underdog picked up that victory 30 to 20 that was a
01:30game that was tied at halftime halftime adjustments by Kirk Signetti offensively and defensively allowed the
01:37Hoosiers to pull away by 10 points. When you talk about the conferences though the Big Ten is guaranteed
01:44to have at least one team in the national championship game we have to see who wins out
01:51with Miami and Ole Miss but I'll ask you is in fact the SEC dominance gone now is the Big Ten in fact
01:59that the conference to beat in college football? Well I don't think you can say anything's forever but
02:06right now when you look at the playoffs and you got to go look at the bowls too because that's the rest of
02:11the conferences. Big Ten has outshined, outplayed, outperformed the SEC in almost all head-to-head
02:19competitions. The teams that went down the SEC have not performed well in postseason and now we're
02:28looking at the Big Ten. We always thought the Big Ten had a couple of real teams but the mean of the
02:33conference wasn't doing as well so right now I think at the end of this season we're going to say
02:38okay SEC it's time to put up or shut up you know because Big Ten has jumped up and we'll see who
02:45wins it all but they got a chance to have somebody in the championship game and the SEC has still got
02:53a chance but they've got to work their way to it. When you talk about a rematch does the underdog
03:00potentially have the inside track? We know that these teams met earlier in the year and Oregon lost
03:07that ball game at home. Do you give the inside track or maybe the advantage early on in this matchup
03:13to Oregon or you're still sticking with Indiana and Kurt Cignetti? I think that's that's a factor in
03:20favor of Oregon. I think as you look at which team generally wins the second game as long as the first
03:26game was a close game wasn't a blowout wasn't an example of two teams that are distance apart in
03:33their talent level. I think we see that Oregon and Indiana are not that separated. I do think that
03:40factor would lean towards Oregon because it just seems like the team that lost the first close game
03:45and that one was even closer than the 10 points represented. I think that point goes to their
03:51advantage but still I mean Indiana was playing on the road against Oregon that's a hard place to play
03:57we're talking about a neutral field now so that probably balances out. It's a it's a toss-up to
04:03our four-point favorite game for Indiana but I do think that's in favor of Oregon but I think overall
04:09when you look at the entire football team and the way in which Indiana has been coached and the way they
04:16played I think overall the more factors go with Indiana than they do with Oregon.
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