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Mandele, joined, as always by Bruce Feldman.

And as we were preparing it to do this episode, Bruce,

we were realizing, like, not a lot happened in college

football this past weekend of note. We're going to have our great friend John Walters on here

in a little bit. Talk Notre Dame Syracuse and college football television and all that.

But some people may say I'm biased to say this, but I think the biggest story in college football

on Saturday happened at your game.

Would you mean your alma mater winning its division and not only beating Iowa on the road,

but also having Wisconsin and Purdue go down?

Yeah, it was crazy. I mean, first of all, it's crazy that a six and four team has clinched its division with two weeks to spare. But, you know, going into that, going into the game, and by the way, Iowa was a 10-point favorite. They needed to win two games. They either needed to win two games, two of their last three games, or like you said, they needed Wisconsin and Purdue to both lose, and they both did, Purdue, in pretty humiliating fashion.

So tell us about the game and tell us about being right in the middle of it for one of the

more memorable images that went out there Saturday of Pat Fitzgerald gathering his team.

Well, we expected it to be frigid, and it was. The wind show was, I think, five degrees on Friday night. It was in the teens on Saturday.

And by the way, your AD Jim Phillips is a brave man. No gloves, no jacket, just a shirt and tie. I was like, are you crazy? He was like, well, the players have their uniform. This is my uniform somewhere. It's like, okay. Easier said than done. You know, what was that we knew was going to be a low scoring game. I did not, I think it was in a 10 or 11 point spread that Iowa was the favorite. And credit to Northwestern. I mean, they lost, they're already down a couple of defensive backs. and they lose their best defensive back, Monterey Hardidge.

And Iowa attacked right after that.

And then they were down to the third string kicker, and they still won.

And it was a cool moment at the end of the game.

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