College Football talk.

0:00We'll get to submission get a Michigan state stuff coming up as we move in at another week in a college football. Okay, little experiment here. I want to know what you would rather do. Lions bills at Cosm, a week from tonight in the dome, $605. Okay, $605. Right now, I just did a quick Google search, actually did a travelosity search. I can fly round trip from Detroit to Los Angeles on frontier for $436. Then go to Cosm LA and watch Lions bills for $41. It is cheaper to fly to Los Angeles.

1:03Round trip. Go to Lions bills. It caught watching a Cosm in the dome in LA and fly back. Is it really only $400 and something to fly round trip to LA? That is correct. It's $436. Well, I mean, it's the cheapest fly. It would be 1037 AM on Wednesday and 436 select and return the next day at $228 or return Friday at $228. And then go to Cosm LA for $41. Now you have to get hotels and food and all that. Sounds like a, was you talking to Jimmy? You know, it feels like another car should an Anderson adventure. I think so. We could have, so we'd have to leave early in the day. We could do that Mike and Rico do eight hours. Right, right. Yeah, that would work. And then Friday, we'd miss the show coming back. So they could do eight hours then too.

2:03I'm sure they do us that favor. Yeah, no worries. Hey guys, let's do it. Fly to LA and watch Cosm in the dome. You down? Yes. Yeah, I am. Okay. So Michigan plays Oklahoma on Saturday, Michigan State plays Eastern Michigan on Saturday. We haven't got much of your thoughts on the Spartans in the opener and what you're looking for to improve week to week. I've got a list for Michigan. That is short, but what would you like to see for Spartans? Well, first of all, what I liked in the first week in the, in the opener, I liked that they, they started strong. I thought the running game looked good right off the bat. I thought that did a nice job. The quarterback play from Milovojovik was, was I thought really good. High level. I thought he played at a very, very high level. It was very accurate. Bullard at receiver did a, the great job to get him back in the mix.

3:06But the problem with Michigan State and that game was that they weren't finishing drives. And they settled for field goals and then you've got, they ended up with five field goals on the day, which obviously accounts for 15 points, which was fortunately made the difference in the game. But they needed to finish drives with touchdowns, not field goals. That to me is going to be the big step moving forward this week against Eastern is don't settle for the field. We'll get the touchdown, finish those drives, finish those plays and hot human night, Friday night, niece, Lansing. Well, I think that it had been initiated by Florida or America and the new Frontierégade trend to win. I don't want you to contribute to this relationship with the Kamp Centre. Maybe that will be okay. Yeah. It's just, even though PAL ran a tournament for the long face it's not getting down to lakes. I'm a lot harder to get out on the field and play it sorts of guys. It's different from a different roster. I just wanted to get my head straight.

4:06I know my head straight, I feel it not. are certainly areas they can improve on the offensive line. It didn't look like this well-eiled machine yet, but first week of the season, I wouldn't expect that. Can they be better in the second week against Eastern? I think they can't. I think that is the grand scheme of things is Toledo a better team than Eastern Michigan is, probably. But I like where the Spartans are at right now because it's in a way that game against Toledo was, not the perfect game for them because it obviously didn't thump them, but it was good in a standpoint that they, they know that they have to improve and it's like, it's all on film. I go, okay, guys, we won the game, which is most important. We got down to the fourth quarter. We were trailing at the fourth quarter and came back and won that game by double digits. That's all good. Defense, there were a lot to be happy with with the defense and a lot to work on with the defense. The second area has got to cover better. We need to get more pressure on the quarterback. Offensive line has got to be stronger.

5:06It got to be stronger going to the second half and opening up bigger holes so our running game can take over and dominate the game. Can these things happen in week two against their former teammate, Noah Kim and the fighting team from Eastern Michigan? We will see, but I'd like their chances to go to it. The Noah Kim storyline is the first of three story lines of Spartans facing old quarterbacks. And you know, we get to a point where a couple of years to remove nobody knows anybody anyway. It's not like there's entire class that he came in with and everybody stays on rosters anymore. But the fact is Toledo's a kind of team. I said it about Western Michigan. Nobody paid attention, nobody cared. And nobody cares still. That can beat you. If you don't show up, they can beat you. And Toledo had a lot of unknowns. First year coach bringing players from the FCS level at Mercer. Now it's, you know, an Eastern Michigan team that it was pretty impressive in week one, spent some time in first place in the Mid-American conference

6:08before dropping that game to San Jose State. Bigger, is it a bigger challenge? Time will tell, I guess. But bottom line is there's stuff to work on for Michigan State. The one thing I'd say that maybe was different, you tell me if I'm wrong. Last year when the Spartans started to take on water, they couldn't stop. It just like South and Hurrey. This team was trailing in the fourth quarter and found a way to not lose the game. They responded. Yeah, they did respond. That's why I thought was important in that fourth quarter. You get down, even it was by the slimest of margins. But you come back and you respond it. You respond and not only with your offense, but you respond it with your defense too. So that was important. To see somebody emerge in the kicking game was exciting to see drilling that kick from beyond 50. And there was no questioning the leg on that. Was it going to stay accurate? It did. That's that all boats well for me. It was it was a nice win for the Spartans. It wasn't a great win.

7:09Plenty to work on, but I think that's the positive that comes out of it. Is it you know you've got stuff to work on? You still come out of it. Want to know. Okay, so now Michigan, does Michigan have a chance to completely turn the script and go from a team that nobody thought would have a problem to a team that nobody thinks can win to winning that game. There are so many examples in history of this happening again that are happening before. I've cited the 1980 Michigan team that lost one there open or 17 maybe you're 79. They won their opener. That was 80 one there opener, but against vintage 011 Northwestern type of team. They won at 17 to 10. They lost their next two games ran the table. One the Rose Bowl. The next year Michigan entered the season number one in the country. They opened it Wisconsin and lost 21 to 14. The next week number one Notre Dame came to Ann Arbor. At Michigan flip the script and beat Notre Dame soundly 25 to seven. There's no there's Notre Dame from two years ago

8:10that lost to Northern Illinois early in the season ended up playing for the national championship. College football and college football players are not chess pieces. They probably have more variability week to week than many other sports and what makes the sport great and fun. Big house momentum need a fast start. All those cliches and need better play and a variety of factors. They call team meeting Sunday. They really get into each other about the fact that they didn't didn't work and play nearly hard enough. I'm going to stick by the fact that I still think this can be a good offensive line that struggled in game one. And is it explainable? No, do I think this game has potential to be closer than people think of course. But the fact they need their defense to be legit. The defense was was pretty good against Western Michigan. Much bigger challenge this week. Watching Meteor Maestro that offense last year.

9:12I watched the last year's game again last night. He is so good with the football knowing where to go with the football. He had a great game in that game. He wasn't always that good, but he's another year older and chances are he is going to be better. And he's a great template as a dual threat guy for what Price Sunday would could be. And Price Sunday woulds got to make better decisions in the throw game and the run game. But they got to get that run game going and they got to get Bryce on the edges and and play to his strengths. Maybe narrow the playbook a little bit. But I think, you know, I'll go into the game by the time the game works every week by the time Saturday rolls around. I'm like, they got a chance. But part of that is being in the building and realizing that they fully believe they have a chance. Yeah. I mean, last week was a tough week. I don't know if that it was just reality hitting that. He waited a minute. They're not as good as they think they are. Or did they just take it for granted? Or was it just a bad day at the office? Won't know until a few games into the season to see. What do they suck? Right.

10:13Well, that's the same as part of it too. Well, home, I'd probably feel pretty confident about their chances going into this week. But if they're smart, they don't take them for granted because you're coming to a place that is notorious for putting 110,000 people in the stands and it's going to be a great day for it. And obviously Michigan is chopping it the bit to get back at it. They want another chance to redeem what happened last week because it just wasn't good enough. And you're right. The running game has got to be better and they've got the they've got the horses for it, including the quarterback and getting running. For me, I would say that the key is moving the sticks. Do that because they sure didn't do enough of it against Westerk. You know, too many, whatever, three and outs or five and outs, whatever it was, they have to have sustained drives and have many of them because you're going to want to keep Oklahoma off the field because they are really explosive offensively. I mean, the fight is incredible. They're tight ends amazing. The fact that material through for 225 yards and only 11 completions tells you that these guys can make plays happen after the catch.

11:14And it's a dangerous football team. They're really, really talented at Oklahoma. And I don't know if this is going to be a complete blowout by Oklahoma. I tend to think it's going to be closer, but I do think Michigan's going to end up one in one. So the other thing that Michigan can't do is they did in week one is don't undermine your own drives with penalties. Can't do that. I mean, it is the crazy thing is Michigan was one of the least penalized teams in the country. And this is one of the things I was thinking about. You were least one of the least penalized teams a year ago. And typically, Kyle Wittingham teams don't get penalized at all. When I see a bunch of penalties, that tells me they really aren't that comfortable yet in what they're trying to do. Hopefully each week, they get more and more comfortable, less thinking and more just playing as things come instinctual. 2485 3997 97 and Bryce Underwood no more holding penalties. I've never seen that before. A quarterback get flagged for holding it. I mean, right? I got an interesting question out there from one of our listeners on Twitter. We will get to that coming up today at 120.

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