Big 10 Preview: Can Anyone Beat Buckeyes, Losing Brown Big Blow for PSU & Michigan's Milton Era with Bill Landis, Audrey Snyder & Nick Baumgardner
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🗓️ 21 October 2020
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Andy and friends present a BIG Big 10 preview in today's show! The Athletic's Ohio State, Penn State and Michigan scribes, Bill Landis, Audrey Snyder and Nick Baumgardner, respectively, join Andy in analyzing the upcoming year. Andy and Landis take a look at Justin Fields and his fellow Buckeyes' off-season, including voicing their urge to play (2:15)? Who's Ohio State's next great defensive lineman and how does the defense project this season (5:15)? Does any member of the '10' pose a threat to OSU (8:30), and how was Ryan Day able to keep his core members together despite an exponential amount of setbacks (9:45)? Snyder stops by next to address Penn State stud running back, Journey Brown's, medical condition that could sideline him all of 2020 (11:30). What headspace are the Nitty Lions in ahead of their season opener against Indiana (14:45) and considering the Hoosiers are in the headlights, is the impeding clash against OSU this team's immediate focus (16:15)? PSU aspires to usurp Ohio State as the conference's top...Lion(?)...however, does the program's progress appear stunted or is OSU just that good (19:00)? Baumgardner breaks down Washtenaw County's Covid-19 advisory, which affects U-M's campus. So, how does this figure into the Wolverines plans as they prepare for Minnesota on the road (25:00)? Are all the Jim Harbaugh-Michigan questions/narratives finally extinct, or has everyone just been keyed in on making sure there's an actual football season (27:00)? The Joe Milton era at U-M starts now (30:45). What can we expect? Where does Michigan fall in the Big 10 pecking order (33:00), and, lastly, let's preview Michigan-Minnesota (34:15)!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show, and we are going to talk about something that I feel like has |
| 0:14.3 | completely snuck up on us. We are two days away from actual Big Ten football. And I feel like we spent so much time this year |
| 0:24.3 | talking about whether the Big Ten would play in 2020 or not that we haven't really spent much |
| 0:31.4 | time talking about the actual teams. Yes, we know Ohio State's good. We know Wisconsin's usually |
| 0:36.5 | always good. Penn State had an opt We know Wisconsin's usually always good. |
| 0:43.4 | Penn State had an opt-out, lost a really good player to a medical reason this week. |
| 0:48.1 | But there are so many storylines and so much to get into. |
| 0:51.2 | Illinois and Wisconsin kick it off Friday night. |
| 0:53.1 | Then everybody else joins in on Saturday. |
| 1:00.0 | You've got Nebraska, Ohio State, Penn State, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Maryland Northwestern, Iowa, Purdue, |
| 1:07.1 | and good old Rutgers at Michigan State. The Big Ten is back, and today we're actually going to talk about the Big Ten on the field, not the Big Ten postponing the season, |
| 1:12.8 | changing its mind about postponing the season, getting sued by Nebraska players, getting |
| 1:18.2 | pushed by Ohio State coaches and players. No, we're going to talk about Big Ten teams playing |
| 1:24.4 | football, and I cannot wait. We're going to start with Bill Landis, our Ohio |
| 1:29.6 | State beat around, and talk about the defending champs, the Buckeyes. Then we're moving to |
| 1:33.6 | State College to talk to Audrey Snyder about Penn State and what they do post-Jurney Brown. |
| 1:39.4 | After that, we moved to Michigan and talked to Nick Baumgartner about the Michigan Wolverines who opened their season against Minnesota. |
| 1:48.8 | Prime time on ABC on Saturday night. |
| 1:52.3 | This is going to be a short, sweet, hopefully, hopefully fun season of Big Ten football that for a while we didn't think was going to |
| 2:01.9 | happen, but it is going to happen. So let's talk to our great beat riders about actual football |
| 2:09.7 | in the Big Ten. Cannot wait. Start with Bill Landis and Ohio State. Bill, let's be honest, without Ohio State, probably |
| 2:20.9 | nobody's playing in the Big Ten this fall. The Buckeyes led the charge. Justin Fields specifically, |
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