Buckeyes blow by Nittany Lions, Clemson escapes Boston College & Spartans stun Wolverines with Bill Landis & Colton Pouncy
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In a weekend full of nail-biters, Andy and The Athletic's Ohio State scribe, Bill Landis, start today's show with Ohio State's commanding win over Penn State (1:00). Can anyone compete with OSU in the Big Ten? Was this performance expected out of the Nittany Lions? The duo take an early glance at the CFB Playoff picture and discuss who they believe are true contenders (5:00). The Trevor-Lawrence-less Clemson Tigers were tested in a conference bout against Boston College, though DJ Uiagalelei rallied his club and illustrated his remarkable ability (10:30). Andy and Bill admire some rarely-seen undefeated Big Ten teams (17:15) before chatting about where the winless Nittany Lions go from here (18:45). Will Wisconsin play Purdue next week (22:15)? How would another lost game affect, not only the Badgers, but the conference as a whole? Who's ready for some Pac-12 football (26:16)! Andy then welcomes in The Athletic's Michigan State penman, Colton Pouncy, to react to the Spartan's shocking win over Michigan (29:00). Was this a fluke win by Michigan State? How does this victory shape Mel Tucker's image following last week's loss? Is "Slick Rick" the conference's best kept secret? Is Michigan as good as we initially thought? What does the rest of the season hold for these two programs?
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Andy Staples show. It is a Sunday brunch edition. By all means, let me know what you're cooking as you listen to this show. I'm probably just drinking water because I'm not allowed to eat breakfast anymore. |
| 0:24.0 | So I will live vicariously through you. And then at 11 a.m. when I am allowed to eat, I will hopefully reproduce and recreate |
| 0:29.2 | something that you have done because that is what makes my life fun on Sunday mornings to |
| 0:35.6 | know that you are listening and eating well and digesting |
| 0:39.6 | all that you saw on Saturday of college football to help us to help us be your stomach acid |
| 0:47.0 | for college football to get to get it digested. We bring in Bill Landis, our Ohio State beat writer. |
| 0:53.3 | Bill, you just watched the buck guys |
| 0:55.7 | beat penn state and kind of a i don't know it was a blowout that didn't feel that way and the |
| 1:06.1 | final sort of look like look that way yeah it kind of it felt like it the whole time but it didn't, it didn't quite end up that way. Ohio State left some points on the board, missed two field goals. And I, and I think at least one of those drives, they probably should have tried to score a touchdown. It's a kicker issues in this game. And then the defense got a little leaky in the second half, but, you know, Ohio State |
| 1:29.0 | wasn't controlled the entire time. This is the most that Ohio State has controlled Penn State |
| 1:33.6 | probably since 2015. So it was really impressive. It was just, it's kind of a weird feeling where, |
| 1:38.7 | you know, it's 38, 25, and you feel like maybe it should have been like 45 to 20 or 4517 or something like that. |
| 1:45.6 | Well, the defense dominated Penn State in the first half. |
| 1:47.8 | I mean, I think that was that was where you thought this could really go off the rails. |
| 1:51.6 | And then it felt like Penn State got a little more under control, didn't let Ohio State hit them on too many big plays. |
| 2:00.1 | And I guess got the game a little more in hand, |
| 2:04.3 | but it never really could get close again. |
| 2:08.5 | No, Penn State in the second half offensively started doing some of the stuff that I |
| 2:12.8 | figured they might try all game, which was just like RPO, quick game. |
| 2:16.9 | They got some nice matchups with Jehan Dotson against Sean Wade of all people and against seven banks. And like that really worked for them. But it was almost, it was too little too late because even if Ohio State's offense was in finishing drives, quite the way you'd like them to, they were kind of having their way for the most part. There were one or two drives where they didn't. but that was kind of in the first half. Justin Fields was excellent, and it was just too little too late for, |
| 2:18.9 | for, for the most part. There were one or two drives where they didn't, but that was kind of in the first half. Justin Fields was excellent and it was just too little too late for Penn State's offense |
| 2:39.0 | to try to play catch up at that point. So did Ryan Day come out in a Darth Vader costume for his |
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