What's up, everybody? Welcome into breaking the huddle. Another week of college football. I am your host, Joel Clyde. This show, as always, is brought to you by Dr. Pepper. It is the one fans deserve. All right. Lots to get into my top 10, my almost top 10. We're going to take a look at Michigan and Michigan state. What made you feel like you're going to be able to do this?

Well, it makes their run games different and great all at the same time. We'll talk with Blake Korum running back from Michigan in preparation for that huge matchup between the Spartans of the Wolverines, and then maybe we'll get to some social media stuff at the end. But let's start with my top 10 and the teams that almost made my top 10. Okay. Oklahoma State after that loss. They dipped out Pittsburgh. I see you coming with Kenny Pickett. Notre Dame wins again. Kentucky off of that loss to Georgia after the off week. They're still sitting there right outside of the top 10. So what does it look like?

Inside of my top 10? Well, we're going to start at the bottom with Iowa. Iowa is going to sit in there. They're six and one after the off week. They've got Wisconsin this week in a game in which they are actually dogs. So we'll see if they can stay there. As we continue to move up, Ole Miss is going to be number nine. Lane Kiffin's got it going down there. Listen, I love Matt Kerala. Like a lot of things that they're doing at number eight. This is where some of the surprises are going to creep up. I've got since an adi at eight. I moved them way down and I'll tell you why in just a moment. At number seven, I've got Ole Miss.

Oregon, Oregon staying up there after some of these close wins. That win against UCLA was terrific in the Rose Bowl. At number six, I've got Michigan State a little higher than what the AP has from Mel Tucker's group. At number five, I have got Oklahoma. They're moving down after that poor performance against Kansas. At number four, I've got Michigan. That was an easy win against Northwestern. At number three, I've got Alabama. Two, I've got Ohio State. I'm sure I'm going to have to talk about that a little bit because that's on the way up for Ryan Day.

When everybody knows that's going to be Georgia. Let's start with this. When I look at putting together the top ten, the first thing I do is I see a clear point of demarcation between three and everybody else. Georgia, Ohio State and Alabama, to me, when I watch them, are the three best teams in college football, regardless of what's going on with record or what happened on the field.

I know that Oregon beat Ohio State, and I'm a guy that believes that the game on the field has to matter. But as for right now, Ohio State is going to stay up there. From four to nine, these are very interchangeable. You've got to slot them in somewhere, and there's got to be some reason. Michigan, they've been dominant enough, running the football. They're the number two scoring defense in the country, so they got the bump. Oklahoma continues to play one possession games and playing down to their opponent. They will play to their opponent level.

Regardless of who they're playing. So they went down to number five. Michigan State, they stood right here at six. I still love what they're able to do. They're not great defending the past. That's one of the reasons I kind of knocked them down, or if you will, put them, slotted them at six. Oregon just continues to win, all right. And this is a team, although they lost to Stanford, that is getting healthier. And I think a little bit better. Anthony Brown is a guy that played his best game against UCLA. Cave on Thibodeau, his best game against UCLA.

Cincinnati is a team that I don't see the dominance. If you're going to play a schedule as poor as Cincinnati's, when you take a look at the overall landscape of college football, if you're going to play a group of five schedule, you better dominate. I'm a big school snub. I'm sorry. I'm biased about that. You can't have a one possession win against Navy and what you're holding on after they get an onside kick.

And so from there, that's kind of where it settles out. Now let me sit on Ohio State for just a moment. Ohio State right now is playing the second best football in all of college football.

They were not good defensively to start the year. We all saw that in the loss against Oregon. But if you take a look at the way that they've evolved and what they've done to fix those problems, they are clearly right now the second most dangerous team in the country.

In the last four games, Ohio State, they're the second ranked scoring defense in the country and the second ranked yards per play defense in the country. Now they have not faced a tough gamut during those four games, but the defense has clearly improved also in those four games. They're averaging over 50 points per game offensively.

Since you had CJ Stroud sit out because of a shoulder injury, he's come back in the last three. He's thrown for over 340 yards a game in those three games, 14 touchdowns and no interceptions.

Travion Henderson, almost 10 yards per carry. He scores a touchdown almost every six times he touches the ball. They've got the deepest and best receiving core in the country. Their offensive line is terrific. You see what I'm getting at. This team is starting to evolve into one of the most complete teams in the country.

So everyone's asking me why in the world is Ohio State the number two team in the country because they're playing the second best football in the country and that's why I have them right there.

And I think also that playoff committee next week when we start looking at the college football playoff rankings, I think they're going to level Ohio State as well.

And they'll also give Oregon a nice big bump and we'll get into should head to head matter at some point during the course of the next few weeks when we take a look at the college football playoff rankings as they start coming out next week and beyond.

Let's talk a little Michigan Michigan state. Oh, cannot wait for this game as we talked about there a little bit earlier. These two teams are built similarly, although not identical.

Clearly, they're both running the football well. Michigan State has a leading Russia in the country. Michigan is the one of the best rushing teams in all the big 10 conference, but how do they do it? How do they get to the point where they're dominant in the run game?

Let's first look at the success that they're having. As I just mentioned here, Michigan 253 yards per game. That's the top rushing team in the big 10. They're fifth in the country. Michigan State, they feature Kenneth Walker.

He leads college football with those 142 rushing yards per game, but that's where the similarities end. Okay, because the schematics are actually very different. Let's take a look, a peek under the hood at what makes them so good each of them. Let's start with Michigan, the Michigan run run game.

Now, while they do everything so they'll run zone at times and they'll run pin and pull and it's mainly in terms of their success, their gap and their power schemes. Okay, I'll explain it just a little more detailed in a moment.

They're trying to overwhelm the defense by adding gaps to the play side. Now, they also have a commitment to the run game in all situations, but let's first look at their ability to run these gap and power schemes. All right, let's take a look at what they're doing on the field.

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