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01:14 He's the almost famous Adam Carriker.
01:16 I'm the much less famous Jeff Tern.
01:18 This is the Big Ten show.
01:20 Adam, listen, we have a quarterback in CBUS.
01:24 The Ohio State is going with Kyle McCourt as the quarterback
01:28 to replace C.J. Stroud.
01:31 First of all, did you ever have to have any battles
01:35 or did you just walk off the campus at Lincoln with a black shirt
01:40 and your spot and you didn't have to beat anybody out,
01:42 or was this a nervous time for you?
01:45 Early August, late August, as you were getting ready for a season,
01:48 make sure you had a spot on that defensive line.
01:51 Dude, I was not a highly recruited guy.
01:56 I mean, I had Oregon pull their offer.
01:58 I grew up in the Northwest.
01:59 Washington never even called.
02:01 Nebraska at one point looked at me and said--their D-line coach said,
02:05 and I quote, "You're not good enough to play here."
02:08 So Washington State, Oregon State, heck, I had way more offers
02:11 as a quarterback than a D-lineman.
02:13 So anyways, long story short, I get to campus there.
02:16 There's, what, three seniors, two juniors on scholarship
02:20 that I'm so buried on the depth chart I can't even count that high
02:23 because I can't count that high to begin with,
02:25 but that's besides the point.
02:26 And then there's another highly recruited defensive end.
02:29 There's four defensive ends in my class.
02:31 I'm ranked fourth out of those four defensive ends.
02:33 There's one who's like the number seven defensive end in the entire country.
02:38 And then the video game comes out back when we had college football video games,
02:41 which shall return shortly.
02:43 Of course, we argued whether it was me or him.
02:45 I knew it was him, but I wasn't going to give him that satisfaction.
02:48 Okay, so no, I had a long road to tow.
02:51 When I first got there, one of the first articles I read,
02:53 and this is when I learned to gauge what I read and don't read as a player,
02:58 it said Adam Karriker's too slow, unathletic,
03:00 he's going to have to go play on the offensive line.
03:02 No disrespect to offensive linemen, I didn't like that.
03:04 You're fat and lazy, deal with it.
03:06 But no, I had a long road to go, my friend.
03:11 So at what point did you get the starting spot and not let it go?
03:15 What was the turning point in your career?
03:18 Cotland came in going into my sophomore year, so my third year there,
03:22 because I redshirted.
03:23 And that offseason, he tried to destroy the walk-on program.
03:27 I mean, he didn't use those words, but he looked at us in a meeting one day,
03:30 and there was 180 of us.
03:31 He goes, "I'm used to 61 guys, 53 on NFL active roster
03:36 and eight practice squad guys."
03:38 He goes, "I'm going to try to get a third of you to quit."
03:40 And he did.
03:41 He put us through what was known as the two weeks of hell,
03:43 the offseason from hell.
03:44 And by the time the season rolled around, there was about only 120 players left.
03:49 And going into that first game, I had earned the starting spot.
03:53 Now, I got hurt right away, and I didn't play as much that season
03:56 as I would have liked.
03:57 I would have said I really locked it down going into my junior year, okay,
04:01 because the other freshmen-- there was four of us, but the other more talked
04:05 about freshmen, and I were both starting opposite of each other,
04:08 and there was separation between us and the guys below us--
04:11 behind us, I should say.
04:13 But up until then, it was a war, and even then, I never knew.
04:17 Maybe somebody would pop up, somebody would take it.
04:19 I played every day like I wasn't getting paid.
04:23 Obviously, a scholarship, but not NIL money.
04:25 But I played every day.
04:26 I practiced every day like my job was on the line because that's how I felt.
04:32 Who was the other defensive lineman that was opposite of you at that time?
04:35 Jay Moore.
04:38 Okay, all right.
04:40 Pretty good.
04:41 He could play some ball.
04:42 Not like Adam Carriker, though.
04:44 Do you even know who he is?
04:45 Do you realistically know who he is?
04:47 Yes.
04:48 Listen, dude.
04:49 So I grew up in Husker country, all right, and I had to fight every day
04:54 to make sure they knew that the U was the greatest university in this area,
04:57 even though we were in South Dakota, not South Beach, right?
05:00 So I just had to make sure everyone was--
05:02 Okay, so I just wanted to make sure everybody knew this week,
05:06 big news out of Ohio State, they got the quarterback Kyle McCord.
05:08 Will be the guy, but it seemed like it was a tight battle,
05:11 so if he falters at all, they may go back in a different direction.
05:15 Now, this week on the Big Ten Show, we're going to do a couple of things.
05:17 We're going to talk about NIL money in a second because crazy amounts of NIL money
05:21 going throughout college athletics, specifically to football players.
05:25 And we're going to unveil our preseason power rankings.
05:28 Now, every week we'll update these in some form.
05:31 We went extensive.
05:32 Like Adam and I did our homework.
05:34 We got the Big Ten East.
05:36 We got the Big Ten West.
05:37 And we got our 1 through 14 rankings.
05:39 Adam says there's only three teams, though,
05:42 that can make the college football playoff.
05:45 I think there's four, which we will unveil after we get through our power rankings.
05:50 But, Adam, I think we should--oh, go ahead, feel free.
05:52 Well, technically there's 14.
05:54 I'm just saying with a realistic shot, I see three.
05:58 Okay, technically there's 14, not to nitpick you there.
06:01 True.
06:02 That's fine.
06:03 Technically there is.
06:04 Technically I can buy a lottery ticket and have a chance to win.
06:07 But Rutgers ain't got no shot in hell of winning the Big Ten, all right?
06:11 Rutgers is the lottery ticket.
06:14 Northwestern, Rutgers, hell, Indiana, okay, like you guys play football
06:20 like everybody else, but you have no shot in hell, sorry, of winning.
06:24 Yeah, maybe basketball, all right, for Indiana.
06:27 That's about it.
06:28 All right, so let's do it this way, man.
06:30 Let's go 14 through 1, and then we'll break it down into divisions
06:34 if that works for you, okay?
06:36 How about you go 14 through 8, I'll do the same,
06:40 then we'll do 7 through 1, and then we'll do divisions.
06:42 So Fireway, what do you got 14 through 8?
06:44 I have Northwestern, and my only note next to them is
06:48 will they be the worst Power 5 program two years from now, okay?
06:52 At 13 I have Rutgers, and I have not a Power 5 roster overall.
06:57 I have a couple of nice pieces, but that's really it.
07:01 Let me see.
07:03 I have Indiana next.
07:04 12 comes after 13.
07:06 I actually have 13 written down here twice and no 11.
07:09 That's what I ran into.
07:10 I was like, "Crap, which one did I mean?"
07:12 I have Indiana next at 12.
07:14 Thank you for the math lesson.
07:16 No problem.
07:17 I literally wrote, "Looking forward to basketball season."
07:22 Next up is Purdue.
07:23 Now here's where it gets a little bit more positive, okay?
07:26 They have a great new head coach, Ryan Walters,
07:28 one of the fastest-rising coaches in the country.
07:30 They were obviously just in the Big Ten title game last year,
07:33 but they lost a lot of pieces.
07:34 New coach, changing some things, and they have probably the most brutal schedule
07:37 in the entire country.
07:39 So that's a major reason I have them a little bit lower.
07:43 Next is good old Michigan State.
07:46 I did.
07:47 I put a question mark here.
07:48 Is this the year Mel Tecker finally helps this program take off,
07:52 or is this the year he gets fired despite the crazy buyout?
07:56 All right, next up, and this might not make some people happy.
07:59 It might surprise some people, but I have Minnesota.
08:02 Okay, there was a time this offseason when I felt pretty good about Minnesota.
08:06 Okay, but they got a new quarterback who threw more interceptions
08:09 than touchdowns last year.
08:11 They have a running back by committee approach, which means nobody has stood out.
08:14 They have a revamped offensive line with three new starters.
08:17 Their wide receiver is in tight end.
08:19 Very, very good.
08:20 Okay, their defensive line was great at stopping the run a year ago,
08:23 bad at rushing the passer.
08:25 And in their back seven, in their linebacking core,
08:27 they have nearly 1,200 snaps worth of experience that have left out the door.
08:32 And in their back four, 1,800 snaps,
08:35 so about 3,000 snaps worth of experience in their back seven are no longer there.
08:39 Now they do have all Big Ten returning safety.
08:42 Okay, who's going to be their best defensive player,
08:44 one of the best in the Big Ten, but who's going to play around them?
08:47 Okay, they had people retire, transfer, go to the NFL,
08:51 and they did bring in some guys in their own right, to be fair.
08:54 I just -- I'm not as high on them as I once was.
08:58 Okay, I have -- and then I'm supposed to stop at eight for my boss.
09:01 Yes, so who's your eight?
09:03 I have Illinois, and you could argue maybe Illinois should be a little bit higher.
09:09 Okay, great defense last year, number one in the nation statistically at one point,
09:14 finished very strong, nonetheless ran the ball well, very well coached.
09:18 Did they catch lightning in a bottle, though?
09:20 Can they do it again?
09:21 At the end of the year, they had a shot to go to the Big Ten title game,
09:24 and they crapped the bed.
09:25 Okay, so I just have my doubts whether they can do it again just a little bit.
09:30 And if they did it again, I wouldn't be shocked.
09:32 But I just have some skepticism there.
09:36 I will tell you this, after hearing you break down Minnesota,
09:39 I can tell somebody's been studying for that Nebraska-Minnesota game this week.
09:42 Oh, yeah.
09:43 Because you're spitting off stats left and right.
09:44 You got it.
09:45 Yeah, that's right, man.
09:47 This guy's been ready for this Nebraska-Minnesota game this week.
09:50 So, first of all, I think at Northwestern I have them at 14, I have Rutgers at 13,
09:57 I have Indiana at 12.
09:59 All three of those coaches, and one because they're on an interim basis,
10:02 the other two because they've struggled some as of late,
10:05 all are on the hot seat, I think.
10:07 So, there comes with that added pressure, you start to lose a few games,
10:09 maybe you start to lose the locker room.
10:11 I'm just going from a philosophical standpoint, not even Xs and Os on this.
10:14 But you're right about the Rutgers roster, you're right about the Northwestern roster.
10:18 Indiana, man, what a season it was.
10:20 Mike Woodson getting paid now as the basketball head coach.
10:24 But I think that the sunnier days have been in the past for the current regime at Indiana.
10:29 And I think that you start to look at that schedule and you go through who they have to play,
10:32 you do the win-loss game, even if it's just paper champions,
10:35 it doesn't feel like they're going to win a lot of football games there.
10:39 So, that may be ultimately a change there at head coach.
10:42 At number 11, you had them at number 10, but I have Michigan State.
10:45 I'm not a believer in Mel Tucker.
10:47 You speak about lightening the bottle, I think year one, that's what it was.
10:51 Everything sort of fell into place for them.
10:53 Your quarterback transfers out, Peyton Thorne.
10:55 Now, you've got a guy in here that a lot of people believe who was an understudy there to Thorne,
11:00 can do some things with the passing game, came in as a guy that had a lot of dual threat ability at quarterback.
11:06 So, they're going to have to go as far as the quarterback takes them, typically an offense that relies on the rushing game.
11:10 But I think this year they're going to have to air it out a lot to stay in games.
11:13 Maybe Michigan State defense isn't what it was a handful of years ago.
11:18 I have them at number 11.
11:20 The team that you had at 11, I have at 10.
11:21 I think you can flip-flop Purdue there with Michigan State.
11:25 I think you're going to see Ron Walters really get that defense better and playing better football,
11:29 because if they could play better football in that Big Ten Championship game, it would have been a little bit closer.
11:33 They had a really good offense a year ago, but I would put Purdue at number 10.
11:37 At number 9, I have Illinois.
11:40 More so bad -- not so fast, my friend.
11:46 I have Illinois at number 9.
11:50 I think the schedule gets the best of them, and I think some of the teams that a year ago they would have beat are better this year.
11:56 That's why I just kind of went off of wins and losses more so than -- they lost a stud at cornerback,
12:04 went to tops there in the NFL Draft, really was locked out.
12:08 So I think they're going to have a little bit of trouble defending the pass, but we'll see.
12:12 They've got a dude on the outside that can get to the quarterback as well as anybody.
12:16 Then at number 8, I have Nebraska.
12:19 I think Nebraska is a 6-6 team this year that could get to 7-5 or fall to 5-7.
12:26 If they got to 8, damn, I think Matt Rule would be ecstatic that that's where they were at year one, all things considered.
12:34 But I think they can get to a bowl game this year, and really that's a step in the right direction.
12:39 Missing a bowl game in year one of Matt Rule I don't think would be catastrophic, but it would be certainly disappointing.
12:44 So that's who I have at number 8.
12:47 All right, man, who do you got 7-1?
12:50 Well, just to revisit Purdue real quick, just real quick, I think they're actually going to be a pretty good football team,
12:55 but that schedule is just murderer's row.
12:57 If you take the schedule out of it, I have them up a little bit higher, but that unfortunately had to drop because of it.
13:04 Now, next up I have, and this may surprise some people, I have Iowa.
13:09 Now, I'm fully well aware, Caden McNamara, 16 returning starters, as soft as a pillow schedule.
13:16 I think that contract with Baby Ferrence, okay, desperate – what are you doing?
13:24 Just chill, okay?
13:25 Go take a chill pill, all right, and a shower pill while you're at it.
13:28 So here's the deal.
13:29 I think that contract, if I have to get so many points and I have to do this and I have to do that, desperate men do stupid things.
13:36 I think he's going to stray from what has worked for them for so long, okay?
13:41 I think he's going to get desperate.
13:42 I think he's going to do things that he shouldn't, and I think there's going to be a little –
13:45 I'm not going to say he's going to go off the deep end, but I think there's going to be a little bit of an identity crisis.
13:50 I think there's going to be a short leash.
13:52 I think Daddy Ball is going to be an issue, okay, because I think they're a much better team than this.
13:57 I'm saying 25 points a game is going to be a much bigger problem when a man's trying to save his job than people realize.
14:07 Who do you got at number six?
14:09 Oh, nothing?
14:10 Okay, I'll just wait for you.
14:12 All right, number six –
14:13 I'm saving it for my list.
14:14 You go, just get it.
14:15 Go ahead.
14:16 Okay.
14:17 No, it's all good.
14:18 Okay, at number six I have Nebraska.
14:19 Now, initially, I'll be honest with you, I had Iowa ahead of Nebraska, okay?
14:24 But again, I just think there's going to be things off the field that affect that Iowa team.
14:28 With Nebraska, every year they're the most talented team in the Big Ten West.
14:32 Every year, the most talented team in the Big Ten West and the fourth most talented team in the Big Ten overall every year,
14:37 and every year they're horrifically horribly coached.
14:39 They just have been.
14:40 Now, Matt Ruhle's not going to come in and in a few months just be the savior and save everything.
14:44 I predicted them a couple of weeks ago on my other show, The Carriker Chronicles, to go seven and five, okay?
14:49 Which is along the lines of what you said, something similar.
14:52 If they go to a bowl game, fans will be thrilled.
14:54 They will be thrilled as long as we don't vote to not go this time because that was brilliant.
14:59 Okay, but for me, I think it all starts with the first two games.
15:03 I think they pull off a close, sloppy, ugly first game of the season type win on the road at Minnesota.
15:09 Then you go to Colorado, who looks like a youth football team in the pictures that they're putting out on their social media,
15:15 and you start the year 2-0, and I think you just get momentum and confidence,
15:19 and you maybe get another win or two that you otherwise wouldn't.
15:22 Maybe that talent actually plays to a little bit of their capability and fruition for a freaking change because that'd be nice.
15:28 Okay, so I have Nebraska at number six.
15:30 Now, if they go one and one or 0-2, then I don't have this,
15:34 but this is my prediction based on the first two games getting confidence and momentum.
15:37 Then I have Maryland, which surprised myself that I have Maryland this high.
15:43 They're a pretty good team. They're a team that can score.
15:45 They're a team that's gotten better each and every year.
15:48 The biggest issue I have with putting Maryland this high, and I don't want to say they have automatic losses,
15:52 but when you play Michigan, Ohio State, Penn State every single year,
15:55 it's almost like three automatic losses before you look at the rest of the schedule.
15:58 Now, I looked at the rest of the schedule. It's not that daunting.
16:02 It's really not that daunting.
16:03 I'm not saying they're going to go nine and three, but they could easily go eight and four, nine and three, potentially,
16:07 especially if they upset one of those three teams.
16:10 Okay, and that leaves the top four, so I'm going to stop there, my friend.
16:14 So go ahead, spear your nonsense, edumacate me the best you can.
16:17 All right, man. So at number seven, I have Maryland, and I think, you know, Purdue, Illinois, Nebraska, Maryland,
16:25 I think probably is more of a seven or eight win team, but there's a big group there.
16:30 I think you could kind of go, you know, Michigan State, that's where the cutoff is, Michigan State, you know,
16:36 Indiana, Rutgers, Northwestern, then I think there's the next group of teams, which include those ones that I just mentioned.
16:42 So I have Maryland at number seven. You had them at five.
16:46 At number six, I have Wisconsin. I think it's a transition year.
16:51 I think the offense stuff, everybody keeps saying, well, you know, they're going to figure out a way to be balanced,
16:56 and no, man, I think it's going to take some time,
16:58 and I think it's more so about getting the right personnel in for that offense than it is about schematics.
17:02 I think Luke Fickle can coach as well as anybody not worried long-term about Wisconsin.
17:06 I think that gets back to a 10-win team sooner rather than later, but it's not this year.
17:10 I think the ceiling for them is probably somewhere around eight or nine wins,
17:14 and that could be a seven-win team if the ball doesn't bounce their way.
17:18 And so I'm going to go Maryland at seven, Wisconsin at six.
17:22 Minnesota, how the hell you got them at eight?
17:25 Hell, I want to put them—I tell you what, I might roll that boat to number five.
17:28 I explained earlier how I have them at eight. I laid it out very clearly why they're at eight.
17:31 Go ahead, though.
17:32 Yes, stats are for nerds, all right? Give me the team on the field, all right?
17:37 The analytics will take that and put it in your pocket square, okay?
17:41 I'm going to take Minnesota at number five.
17:44 Listen, I love their schedule, and P.J. Fleck, I trust.
17:49 I think that this is a team that has a ceiling of 10 wins,
17:52 and when we talked to Mike Grimm, voice of the Gophers, earlier this offseason,
17:56 I loved what he was selling to me on the ball bouncing the right way for them.
18:01 When you lose Mo, you've got to figure out something with that running game because he was so dynamic.
18:05 But I got them at number five.
18:07 All right, let's go every other year at four. Who do you got at four?
18:11 So your argument is I don't want to pay attention to facts.
18:14 We're just going to get lucky with the ball bouncing our way, okay?
18:18 And I'm just going to say whatever I want.
18:21 You sound like an uneducated, ignorant person who's just going off of emotions.
18:24 Typical Miami fan. All right, here we go.
18:26 At number four, I have Wisconsin, and I'm not going to lie to you.
18:31 I'm not uber confident in anybody from the West at all.
18:35 Iowa could easily be the big team from the West.
18:37 They're clearly your fourth team in, by the way.
18:39 You got duped at Hood Week by our guest last week, but I'll let you get into that.
18:43 Okay, Wisconsin has an easy schedule. Iowa has an easy schedule.
18:47 Wisconsin has an easy schedule. And yeah, maybe they transition you with the offense.
18:52 But here's what I know. They do have a good football coach.
18:54 He's not walking into a covered-as-bears situation.
18:57 Okay, Wisconsin's a pretty good football team to begin with.
18:59 And when you have a guy named Braylon Allen that you can just turn around
19:02 and hand the ball to half the time, you're going to be okay as long as you're disciplined.
19:06 They're typically disciplined. Play good defense. Play good defense.
19:10 Fickle's a defensive guy as well.
19:12 So, to me, I'm not uber confident, but I've got them at four for those very reasons.
19:18 All right, I got Ohio State at number four.
19:21 I think the quarterback situation is going to be something interesting to follow,
19:24 as we talked about earlier today.
19:27 But listen, I think that their secondary is suspect.
19:31 I think that they will lose ultimately two games in the Big Ten this year,
19:34 one to Michigan and one to somebody else.
19:37 I think they lose to Michigan, and I think they lose to Penn State.
19:40 So I have two losses in the Big Ten for Ohio State.
19:45 And that means at three I'm going first, baby.
19:48 I got the Iowa Hawkeyes at number three, all right?
19:52 I only found one loss on that schedule for them, and last time I checked my South Dakota math,
19:56 it means one is less than two.
19:58 Ohio State, two losses. Iowa, one.
20:01 Now, from a roster standpoint, I can't find a lot of weaknesses on that roster.
20:06 I think K MacNamara is going to be a stud.
20:10 I think he's going to be the second or third best quarterback in the Big Ten.
20:14 I think that you're going to have a huge year for him,
20:17 and you're going to see things from Iowa's offense you've never seen before.
20:20 And I do think they have no problem getting over that 25 points per game.
20:23 Baby Ferentz can get a new contract.
20:26 Daddy's going to continue to coach that squad.
20:28 And I love the defense, man.
20:31 They have some studs in that defensive backfield that are going to create turnovers
20:34 and put them in opportune situations all season long.
20:37 I have them at number three.
20:39 Who do you got at three?
20:43 You severely got duped and hoodwinked by our guest last week, ladies and gentlemen.
20:47 Dave Nykhold scooped me up, man, and he held me like a little baby
20:50 and just rocked me to a lullaby that was the Iowa Hawkeyes.
20:53 Patted your bottom, and you threw up all over his backside, didn't you?
20:57 All right. Okay, go back and check out our show from a week ago.
21:00 If you want to suckle at the teat of Iowa football fandom and Kool-Aid like Jeff is doing here.
21:05 I thought they'd be a four.
21:07 So I'm not going to argue with you about Ohio State because I have them third,
21:11 but I have them third below Michigan and Penn State for a reason.
21:14 Okay, their quarterback, I'm glad they've got one.
21:16 I'm glad they finally decided on one.
21:18 The fact that there's not separation shows me that he didn't do anything to separate this offseason.
21:23 And I don't think they have two quarterbacks that look that great this offseason.
21:26 So they still have question marks at quarterback, question marks on the O-line.
21:29 They played defense since 2019.
21:31 Okay, they have two of the best receivers in the entire country, if not the best.
21:35 And that's, I mean, obviously they're talented, but as far as proven commodities,
21:40 and that's what football players are, even in college football now.
21:43 I'm sorry with NIL monies that you're bankrolling and bringing in.
21:47 I just have so many question marks about them.
21:49 I think they're going to be better than Iowa than these other teams,
21:51 just because they have more, way more talent, way more talent than maybe anybody in the Big Ten.
21:56 Okay, barring Michigan and Penn State, obviously.
21:59 But I'm with you.
22:00 I think they're going to finish in the bottom three of those, Michigan, Penn State, Ohio State.
22:04 Give me two and one, because we are churning up the time today, buddy.
22:07 You're just filibustering all over the place, gas-bagging like the best of them.
22:11 Give me two and one.
22:13 It's called educating and doing your recon, my friend, Mr. I-Go-By-Emotions.
22:17 All right, Penn State, young, highly talented, highly recruited quarterback, Drew Aller.
22:23 What's he going to do?
22:24 Penn State fans have been waiting for him.
22:26 They've got a couple of stud-returning guys that are running backs.
22:28 The biggest question mark for them is wide receiver.
22:30 Who's going to step up?
22:31 And they've really only got two tough games.
22:33 If they just go .500 on those two tough games in Michigan, Ohio State,
22:36 they're all of a sudden in that CFP conversation.
22:38 Go ahead.
22:39 All right, at two, I have Penn State as well.
22:41 All the things you just said, I think Aller's going to be the second-best quarterback,
22:45 probably in that game or three.
22:47 And J.J. McCarthy's my guy at number one, I think, quarterback-wise.
22:50 And I've got Michigan at number one.
22:53 I think they're fully loaded, fully motivated.
22:58 I still think Michigan loses one game this season before they get to the college football playoff.
23:03 But I do believe they ultimately get there.
23:07 So I still think they lose one game.
23:09 I have them at one.
23:11 It wouldn't surprise me if they lose one game.
23:12 I just don't think it's going to be to the two other teams that matter the most.
23:15 I'm with you.
23:16 J.J. McCarthy, Blake Corham, Donovan Envers, two of the best running backs in the entire country,
23:20 one of the best offensive lines.
23:22 They've won the best offensive line award two years in a row, solid defense.
23:25 They play bully ball.
23:26 They're going to be hard to beat in the Big Ten.
23:29 Yeah, they absolutely are.
23:30 I'm going to throw an audible.
23:31 We're going to do a special Big Ten show all about NIL money that I'll post up later this week.
23:35 But instead, we're going to quickly go through our west and east power rankings.
23:38 I've got Michigan one, Penn State two, Ohio State three, Maryland four, Michigan State five,
23:44 Indiana six, Rutgers seven on the east and on the west side.
23:48 I have Northwestern at seven, Purdue at six, Illinois at five, Nebraska at four,
23:52 Wisconsin at three, Minnesota at two, and Iowa at one.
23:56 Run yours down as well, Adam.
23:58 You copied me on the east, so good job there.
24:01 Your west is awful.
24:02 All right, I have Northwestern seven, Purdue six, I have Minnesota five, Illinois four,
24:07 Iowa three, Nebraska two, Wisconsin one.
24:10 There's no way in hell Nebraska would be number two.
24:13 And by the way, my major audible, Big Ten title game, that's where Michigan loses.
24:20 Iowa is your Big Ten champion this year.
24:23 Chew on that as we get ready.
24:25 Can I fire you from the shuttle?
24:27 I mean, we're going to have some sort of credibility here at some point, man.
24:30 What are you doing?
24:32 We lost in Iowa, baby.
24:35 Michigan winning.
24:36 All right.
24:37 Go ahead.
24:38 All right, man.
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