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The Good morning Bucknotters. Welcome to the Bucknuts Morning 5th here on Wednesday, November 5th, 2025.

I am Dave Biddle, very happy, joined by Patrick Murphy.

This is not the Bucknuts Happy Hour, or this is the reverse of the Bucknuts Happy Hour, well, at least when I'm on, as the co-host or Patrick's guest. But good to see you. Long time, no see. Yeah. Let's start with the college football playoff rankings that came out last night, the first iteration of this year. Ohio State number one, as expected. Any surprises? Like I was a little surprised at

the Oregon at 9th. Just anything that jumped out of you that you were surprised about.

And your thoughts on Ohio State being number one. I think the Oregon at 9-1 was one that

jumped out at me initially just because they'd been sixth since they lost Indiana. I'm pretty sure

a month ago or whatever that was.

But when you look at Oregon, like their best win is against probably Northwestern.

Like the Penn State win looks worse now because, A, Penn State's now lost five games in a row,

but also Ohio State just handled them convincingly and Oregon went to double overtime, which at the time looked good, right?

So I'm not sure, you know, how you weigh that.

But yeah, I think, look, I think Oregon, it's a situation of handle your business, right?

And they'll be in the mix.

But yeah, that one was surprising.

I know there was a lot of debate about Miami and Notre Dame.

Obviously, those two teams have played each other, right?

The opening weekend of the season, Miami won that game.

Notre Dame and Miami have the same record.

Miami is, what, 18 and Notre Dame is 10. So I saw a lot of reaction online of like make that make sense

because they did play. But I think for the most part, they got this right. The Ohio State,

Indiana, Texas, A&M, it sounds like those three were kind of in a pod of their own as the top three teams in the

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