00:02hey we've talked enough Michigan here for the entirety of a season so let's start with MSU
00:08here every error that gets off to a rough start has its turnaround game will Saturday's win over
00:15U of M end up being viewed through the lens of history as the game where things changed for Pat
00:21Fitzgerald at Michigan State well it certainly could be and it shows proof of concept and it
00:27shows that he continues to get his players to fight and play hard but he's going to have to
00:35capitalize on it and throughout the rest of the season they got Washington Oregon both home games
00:40and then they're at Rutgers so there needs to be more wins or a win you got to beat Rutgers
00:47at least
00:47and be competitive in those other two games and where it could show the proof of concept is
00:54maybe not nationally but if you're in a recruiting battle in state there's a lot of really good
01:00players coming out of the state this year do you get a chance to pick off some of those
01:05you know four or five star guys and win the recruiting battle with Michigan as long as you
01:12give more money well unfortunately that's part of the equation down to yeah I think it could be a
01:16rallying cry there's no doubt about it something to build on and I think about the 2021 Lions who
01:20didn't win their first game until December and we still remember that it was Amon Ra and those
01:25ugly gray uniforms at the buzzer but you got to start somewhere that's where you start if you're
01:30Michigan State Oregon clobbered Ohio State 41 to 28 in Columbus Oregon has three losses but an
01:37impressive array of wins against Boise State USC and the aforementioned Buckeyes they're actually
01:44ranked eighth in Greg Palm that's right Greg Palm still lives which team is most likely to finish
01:51nine and three and still make the playoff first of all I love that you're still tracking it and I'd
01:56love to see a side-by-side when we have the final playoff rankings to see how it lines up
02:00yeah I'd like
02:01to just uh see a day in the life of of Greg to to see like okay what is he
02:06doing with his free time
02:07Greg Palm still doing it uh three loss team best position to make the playoffs is Oregon they have the
02:12head-to-head with Ohio State and USC those could come in handy in that scenario I agree and and
02:18you
02:19know you in terms of the game still to be played Oregon has Michigan at Michigan State and Washington
02:28and don't forget that they also beat a ranked Northwestern team at the time not going to be a
02:33huge feather in their cap but it was a something that's still a six-win team now yeah and Ohio
02:38State
02:38has Northwestern at Nebraska and Michigan their their remaining schedule doesn't allow for them
02:46to get a quote-unquote big win so you do look at the resumes and I think it is Oregon
02:50and remember
02:52there are seven and two teams that might drop another game might still get in speaking of Ohio State I
02:58have a friend that predicts Ryan Day will be fired at season's end will day be coaching for his job
03:04against Michigan you're always coaching for your job especially in that game but no I think he will
03:10um I don't I think he'll be coaching for Ohio State next year I mean you look at his resume
03:16and he 24
03:18national championship the the odd thing is though that he's only got two big 10 championships that's
03:24weird um but he's he they're always in the mix this is a down year and I don't see them
03:30making a huge
03:30change and making the investment of the buyout buyout of all of the assistant coaches and then
03:37going to get a new coach I just don't know that they do that right now the standards high and
03:42the
03:43emotions run hot in that game so you can never rule it out but he has the perfect excuse my
03:48quarterbacks hurt and by the way in terms of active coaches who have won a national title
03:52he's one of only four I don't think he's going to lose his job but quarterback by the way Michigan
03:58that game to quote Doug Karsh it's not a must win it's a can't lose Notre Dame knocked off number
04:04one Miami Georgia showed their fastball against Ole Miss Utah stayed undefeated with a win of the
04:10holy war and UCLA avoided a trap game at Minnesota who is the best team in the country okay so
04:16Georgia's
04:17number one in the polls and likely will be tonight but let me make a case for somebody else
04:22my Irish you know how much I love Notre Dame look they just beat the number one team and their
04:27only loss is to a top 10 squad compared to Georgia who doesn't have a win that good and lost
04:33to
04:33unranked Auburn there's a case for the Irish to be number one all right George and then Notre Dame
04:38plays nobody else Georgia beat number six Alabama that was in Tuscaloosa they just beat Ole Miss in
04:46Oxford they were a number 10 team and they've spanked them 42 to 7 they also beat a ranked
04:52Florida team that was number 17 at the time and they spanked them 27 8 I think the resume speaks
04:59louder for Georgia than it does for Notre Dame yeah and then that Florida team lost to a busted ass
05:04Oklahoma team sure I'm just saying like the ranked at the time let's watch the season play out to see
05:11the value of those I agree I'm just talking about ranked wins that's why I said it's a ranked win
05:16against Northwestern like okay it doesn't mean a lot but it is still a ranked opponent at the time
05:23let's take a tip let's take a pit stop with a radical idea I thought of now political season just
05:30ended after all and this comes on the heels of the 2014 field being uh officially uh implemented
05:37and the elimination of the conference title games here's the idea every team is independent
05:44and has full control of their own schedules no more conferences schools would still schedule the
05:50games they want to play in perpetuity some teams might have six some teams might only have one
05:55in essence each school would have its own personalized conference what do you think of this idea well in
06:02a utopic society I think that's great but I don't think you can trust all the athletic directors to
06:08schedule highly competitive like schedules and so I don't I don't know that this ever works I think
06:16it's awesome and if you are one of the top teams you you get a chance to schedule anybody you
06:22want
06:22and in this scenario you don't have a conference to share the money with for the broadcast right so
06:29yeah it would behoove teams to schedule good opponents but here's the caveat I want to add to it
06:35you have to schedule a minimum of five years out that way you can't tell well okay this kid this
06:42team is good now we don't necessarily want to play them but you know we'll play them when they're not
06:47good or vice versa right they're they're not very good now but hey they might be in four or five
06:52years
06:52so I would just say you have to schedule out at least five years I'm a little confused did we
06:58eliminate the like electoral college is that we just did what I would tell you we're already trending
07:04this way with the 2014 playoff no conference title games so what's the value in quote winning a
07:10conference you just want the best schedule well if you can handpick that schedule you got to have
07:14at least 10 power opponents or however we define power in the future or four well there's no four
07:20yeah um but yeah you could set your own agenda it would really help the schools that have the big
07:25brands it would hurt schools like Purdue and Northwestern who love making sure to bundle their TV rights
07:32with Michigan and Ohio State right you know what you would like about this uh when everybody's
07:38independent nobody's special Notre Dame wouldn't be special ding ding ding onto this week and the
07:46most important game that's right Wake Forest at SMU will the winner of this game take on Miami in
07:52the ACC championship game yes and I'll take the Mustangs in the game I don't think it'll be in our
07:56pick so I'll make it right now SMU's dropped 50 plus in back-to-back home games and I think
08:01they get
08:02it done here in Dallas yeah most likely especially if Wake Forest wins this um they've got a loss to
08:07Miami obviously if they win this they beat SMU because SMU has lost to Louisville and they and
08:15Louisville beat SMU Louisville still in the mix and don't leave it to chance but but the ACC
08:21will certainly do something to F this up as they did last year another team just hanging around
08:29little Clemson's only got two losses in conference play they're still hanging around
08:33little Clemson who's on upset alert week 11 well I've got two that I think could be on upset alert
08:40but I'm gonna go with the uh I'm gonna stay in the big 10 and say it's USC at Indiana
08:44Indiana is
08:45favored by seven and a half uh where are where's Indiana gonna find that offense like they have
08:52they have struggled mightily and Josh Hoover is he benched is he hurt is he back is he not
08:58no one seems to know so I think USC is gonna go to Bloomington and upset the who who who's
09:05yours
09:07number 15 Texas Tech is an underdog against unranked Oklahoma State so that doesn't qualify
09:13Wake and SMU is basically a pick-em even though Wake is ranked in SMU currently isn't so one that
09:19qualifies how about Tennessee off a big win playing unranked Texas A&M who hasn't had a home game in
09:27a
09:27month easy to overlook them be careful how about one more Utah at Arizona oh yeah Utah is only favored
09:38by two and a half say what off a big rivalry win and that's a dangerous Arizona team hit the
09:43road
09:44ranked Arizona hey they get some fireworks this weekend after all that's on campus 97-1
