Good morning, Bucknoters. Welcome to the Bucknuts Morning 5.

Here on Friday, November 12th, 2021. I am Dave Vittel. I am very happy to join by

Jonah Booker for his usual Friday visit. All right, a lot to get into J. Book.

Let's start with, man, this is fun. This is just so much fun. We can like we'll get

in all the nuts and bolts, but every game is a playoff game right now. I mean,

if the buck guys went out, they're in. They lose any games. They're out. Every

game's a playoff game. This is just so much fun. Yeah, it is. It's like a mini

playoff. Every game matters. This is what you have to love about college football

because the stakes are so high for everyone right now. There's a very little room

for air and this this slated games coming up for a house state. They have to take

it one game at a time, but my goodness it in order for them to get to their

goals is going to take a magnificent effort from everyone in the program

because they by far have the hardest slate of games consecutive than anyone

else in college football. You look at the SEC towards the inner

this season before rivalry week. That's when they pencil in some of those

cupcake games. And the way you look at it now, I don't blame them. I see why the

SEC loves to have those those cupcake games at the inner the schedule because

Purdue is going to be a handful. They are the

the spoiler makers, a team that has shown that they have the ability to play at a

very high level and obviously Michigan Michigan State back to back. Those are

going to be hard hitting the fairs there. I just hope a house they has enough

in the tank, enough healthy bodies down the stretch here to get through it. Yeah,

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