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00:00Indiana, Ohio State is clearly the marquee game this week.
00:06Indiana has rode this 10-0 mark.
00:09Have they played anybody great?
00:11No, they haven't.
00:13They finally got a big test from Michigan last time out
00:15before they went on their bye.
00:18I think you said it perfectly.
00:20If they could stay within the spread, 20?
00:26Like, what is the number where Indiana has
00:28to prove to that committee that at 11-1,
00:31provided they beat Purdue in the last game,
00:33that they are more deserving than any
00:36of those other SEC teams who are going
00:38to have two or three losses?
00:40Or a second, which I don't think is possible anyway, a second
00:43Big 12 or ACC team?
00:45Well, let me throw a score out to you.
00:46I went and watched, or you remember this game
00:49a couple of weeks ago.
00:50If Ohio State beat Indiana the same way
00:53they beat Iowa about a month ago, it was 35-7.
00:56It was close at halftime.
00:58And then Ohio State pulled away.
01:00I still think Indiana would be fine just because Iowa
01:03competed for a half.
01:04And I kind of see that's what's going to happen on Saturday.
01:07I could see Indiana hanging around with Curtis Rourke.
01:10Will Howard and Rourke are the two top, most efficient
01:13passers in the Big 10.
01:14They're not fancy, but they get the job done.
01:16Curtis Rourke's had a really fantastic season.
01:19And I could actually see this being a little bit
01:21like an Ohio State-Michigan game where they go back and forth.
01:24The defenses control the tempo.
01:26If they stop the run, one of those quarterbacks
01:28will make a handful of pass plays, and that will be that.
01:30But what they can't have happen is
01:33what happened to Michigan State a few years ago.
01:35Remember, they came into the shoe, Mel Tucker team,
01:38and I think it was 49-0 at halftime.
01:41If that happens, those things we talked about with Tennessee
01:44and the other SEC schools would become in play.
01:48I mean, the book still has Indiana at minus 350
01:51to make the college football playoff.
01:53So they think that the Vegas still thinks
01:56that they can get in, even with a loss to a team
01:59that's now 12-and-a-half point dogs.
02:00Dude, that number's gone from 10-and-a-half to 12-and-a-half
02:03over the last couple of days for Indiana.