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CFB Week 7 Preview and Predictions - Part I

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Nfl Draft, Football, Notre Dame, Ncaa Team, Big Ten, Sports

4.5828 Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

In part one of today’s preview and predictions show for the biggest games of the college football weekend we talk Ohio State vs Illinois, Oregon vs Indiana and Alabama vs Missouri.

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0:00.0

All right, Brian, in part two of today's show here on the Irish Breakdown podcast, brought to you by Fandul.

0:25.6

We were talking college football because look, man, this is a fun slate of games.

0:30.8

I thought that, you know, week one was going to be a fun slate.

0:33.4

You know, you had Ohio State, Texas, you had Alabama, Florida State.

0:37.1

You had Clemson, LSU, but you fast forward to October 11.

0:41.1

And this slate of games is going to be a lot of fun to talk about.

0:45.2

Man, this is a big, big weekend in college football.

0:48.2

A lot of different implications.

0:49.9

Huge.

0:50.7

Now we're getting into playoff implications, conference title implications. This is the bulk of the season. And just to put the icing on the cake, it's finally fall. Weather outside. It's not 80 degrees anymore. I made some soup yesterday. It's fall, baby. I'm juiced up. I'm absolutely juiced up. I made some chili last week.

1:27.6

So, but having chili every day because I usually make a lot of it so I can have it for lunch. But, yeah, it's that time, bro. It's that time. Well, let's dive into some of these games here. And we're going to go in order of kickoff time. So we're obviously starting with the noon games. then we'll hit some of the 3.30 games and then dive into the evening.

1:27.6

And we have five games that we're going to take a deep dive into before we get to some other games, keep your eye out on.

1:33.4

And the first one is a massive matchup in the Big Ten between the number one Ohio State Buckeyes and the number 17, Illinois, fighting Aligni.

1:43.2

Kickoff time is at 12 p.m. on Fox. and right now on Fandul, Ohio State is favored by 14 and a half points. The over under, though, you said at 49 and a half. Those are some interesting numbers there, Brian. But Buckeyes travel to Champaign, Illinois to take on the fighting Aligni. This is going to be a good one. Yeah, it is, Trev.

2:01.3

I mean, this is a very fascinating matchup because they used to play almost every year.

2:07.1

Like in the 2000s and 2010s, they play almost every year.

2:10.7

They haven't played since 2017.

2:12.8

This is eight years since they've played the last time.

2:15.5

Ohio State's won nine straight.

2:17.3

The last time Illinois won this game won nine straight. The last time

2:17.8

Illinois won this game was back in 2007. And the last time, here's a little nugget for

2:24.7

you, Trev. The last time these two teams played when they were both ranked was 2001. So it's been

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