00:01i like it greg hargrave is going to take us through the biggest questions in college football
00:07okay so the appetizers are over no more mozzarella sticks we are diving deep into
00:12week one here as uh everybody gets going here uh on labor day weekend we're going to start with
00:17michigan they host western michigan as four touchdown favorites and kyle whittingham's
00:22coaching debut in ann arbor now what will you be watching for that's an indicator for future
00:27success for the wolverines well pretty much nothing um but i will say if i have to come up
00:35with something it's going to be disciplined now kyle whittingham's teams are typically some of the
00:39least penalized teams and that wasn't a big issue for michigan last year but i want to see you're
00:44never going to see no penalties well you might every once in a while but i want to see limited
00:48penalties limited missed assignments set a standard so you're playing to your standard not down to the
00:55level of your opponent but there is one thing that i i think could show some some success against
01:03oklahoma they've got a quarterback brock lowry mac offensive player of the year last year ran for
01:11nearly a thousand yards through for 1800 yards doesn't turn the ball over a lot if you are looking
01:16at this as a warm-up for john mature a much better version of brock lowry then it comes down
01:23to
01:23discipline from the end from the edge position when does a quarterback have the ball what does
01:28he not have the ball you're going to have to find a way to stop a mobile quarterback that is
01:33one thing
01:34that i will be watching in this game yeah you got a great read of the situation here westerns a
01:39very
01:39good mac team reigning mac champs bunch of seniors coming back michigan should win handily so just don't
01:44beat yourself stupid mistakes penalties ma's muffed punts none of that stuff look the part of a clean team
01:50in week one and i think season long arc start to see some life from bryce in this passing game
01:55let underwood find some of those receivers some big plays grow some confidence i'm glad we don't have
02:00to argue about wink martindale and is he the guy or is he not anymore how about a little get
02:06off the
02:06field on defense third down defense want to see that efficiency yeah sophomore lseo mulevojevic will be
02:13behind center for pat fitzgerald's inaugural season at michigan state now he threw for 986 yards
02:19seven touchdowns and two interceptions in four november starts last season will milovojevic be
02:25the biggest reason msu falls short or exceeds expectations you kind of love saying that name
02:30don't you i've been practicing i don't think it's on their quarterback i think it comes down to this
02:36you got three transfers up front on the offensive line if fitzgerald wants to build the toughness and
02:40the identity they need a pocket they need a push up front and then i think their defense needs to
02:45be
02:45ahead of their offense you kept joe rossi as the dc and i love uh jordan hall in the middle
02:49of that
02:50defense i think it's on a lot of other people besides their quarterback i was kind of the same
02:54thing in regards to so much especially in college football rides on the success of the quarterback i
03:00think they're going to get consistent quarterback play will they get dynamic and above level quarterback
03:07play i don't know but they can if the offensive line protects them if they establish the run game
03:13but the number one thing for me you mentioned it joe rossi and pat fitzgerald we all know defensive guy
03:18that's what his his teams in in northwestern were they built success on having a strong middle of
03:27the defense defensive tackles linebacker and safeties yeah their depth charted quarterback is
03:35freshman freshman freshman freshman and then journeyman yeah transfer guy so he's it by the
03:41way they're going to be confronted with the ghost of christmas past a bunch this season a lot of
03:44former spartan quarterbacks in the big 10 and around the country speaking of the big 10 indiana
03:48the defending national champions so wild to say debuts in the ap poll at number six are the hoosiers
03:54here to stay as annual big 10 contenders as long as kirk cidnetti is their coach yes they are he
04:01has
04:01won at every single level he's been at whether it was iup it was elon james madison he famously took
04:08them from well in his year one won a you know championship and then was consistently playing
04:16for it and he took them from fcs to fbs they weren't allowed to play in a bowl game that
04:21that
04:21year and when the sunbelt conference he is an absolute winner yeah it's weird to say but indiana's
04:28kind of a machine they've got the continuity with a lot of the same coaches that have been with
04:32signetti through his entire journey that continuity while at the same time they're major players in the
04:36portal with the money to stack the roster year over year hoosiers here to stay miami has the shortest
04:41odds to win the acc of any conference favorite they're at minus 146 who is best positioned to challenge
04:49the u louisville you got to get to the game and they're good to win about 9 10 games every
04:55year
04:56under brahm this year they avoid miami clemson and virginia who looked good in week zero smu is is
05:02the toughest game and it comes in louisville i like their running back i like their ground game and you
05:08know brahm's gonna get his quarterback to play well yeah um i would actually say a team that you
05:12mentioned virginia now yeah they don't play miami they do play louisville this was a team that was able
05:17to win close games last year they were three and one in games in overtime and it they'll face
05:24miami in the the acc championship game hopefully this year they can actually get things done
05:30because that's the only overtime game that they lost it was to duke and it threw the college football
05:34playoffs into a tizzy give me a heisman trophy dark horse candidate someone outside the top 10 we
05:40don't want top of mind guys don't give me arch or car jeremiah smith chambliss dante moore josh
05:45uver julian sandarian mensa those are the top eight all right here's my dark horse now no one saw him
05:51at least you know in in person in week one maybe they'll see him in week two i don't know
05:58if anybody
05:58even shows up for that game but it's usc quarterback uh jaden mayaba he is he's a guy that he
06:05can sling
06:05the ball around he's going to put up big time numbers in that offense now if they can pair a
06:11running game with them and they defensively are improved again it just helped they get to him the
06:18ball back more times he's going to continue to put up huge numbers for usc and we all know usc
06:25they're they're going to have a publicity machine once he starts those numbers at oklahoma in the
06:32college football playoff and i had material winning the heisman trophy halfway through the season last
06:35year i'll go material if you want a true dark horse i think you get value if you go away
06:40from
06:41quarterback how about the sec's leading rusher ahmad hardy at mizzou yeah good luck oh i got one for
06:48you how about lj martin at byu now i know john doesn't like him because ew big 12 but he's
06:55the
06:55rainy big 12 player of the year coming back and he plays notre dame and that could be one of
07:00those
07:00spotlight heisman moments for him or he could get crushed he could uh 33 programs have new head coaches
07:08this year who is most likely to exceed expectations in year one bob chesney ucla following the same
07:14path that signetti did from jmu to the big 10 and he's brought players with him could hit the ground
07:19running in his very first season i'm going to go with somebody a little bit more local and i know
07:23you went with one expectations are low so it might be easy to get over that bar yeah i'm going
07:28to say
07:28pat fitzgerald at michigan state they are picked and it doesn't matter which poll or which you know
07:34talking head you look at and talk to either at the bottom of the big 10 or second to last
07:40in the
07:41big 10 i don't think they finish that bad i think they play much better come november uh and that's
07:47why i'm concerned about that michigan michigan state matchup pat fitzgerald is a coach that will
07:52coach a disciplined team they will get better throughout the course of the year and i think
07:57if you're looking at them as a four win team i think they outkick their coverage i think they make
08:02a
08:03they might make a bowl game this year with six wins okay finally who's on upset alert in week one
08:11i'm gonna go with your old national championship team that's clemson oh boy take it on lsu 10 point
08:17dogs it's at tiger stadium but there's a lot i don't know if you followed college football at all
08:23but there's a little bit of controversy going on there are some questions that the coach and
08:27players are answering that they probably shouldn't the players at least shouldn't have to
08:32answer and i don't even know what the real answer would be i don't know it's the one that
08:37lane kiffin is spouting off that hey if they can help us win bring them i'm gonna sit there and
08:42say
08:42clemson going down to tiger stadium that might be the big upset it certainly would be you're picking
08:48a win in death valley kick off the season welcome back college football oh yeah wouldn't it be amazing
08:53wouldn't it wouldn't and maybe it's just my hopes and dreams taking effect but wouldn't you love to
09:00see lane kiffin lose his first time i think it's a good pick dabbo's revenge from last year yeah and
09:05i'm gonna take louisville to go into uh vaught hemingway stadium at old miss and win in week one
09:11here's a sneaky one i got for you we're going deep in the back for this one how about miami
09:16traveling
09:18to stanford 2500 miles plus a program like miami feeds off of intense visiting crowds hostile crowds
09:29it's going to be the sleepy atmosphere friday night 6 p.m local what the hell are we doing here
09:36and a team improves the most from game one to game two and stanford played love this last week against
09:43to why look out for the game i love this call who's the stanford quarterback davis warren national
09:48champion davis warren what a pull what a pick i like that one greg there you go that's on campus
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