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The Good morning Bucknottors.

Welcome to the Bucknuts Morning 5 here on Friday, October 3rd, 2025.

I am Dave Biddle, very happy, joined by Mr. Jonah Booker.

All right, let's get the predictions up and going here.

So, Buckeyes, final, probably final home night game of the season.

At least we got two this year, right?

Ohio University and now Minnesota.

Buckeyes covered by 23 and a half.

Over under is 42 and a half.

All right, as we normally do, I will give the three, two, one and announce mine,

and then you can announce yours. Here we go. Three, two, one. 31 to six. We're pretty close.

I have 38, seven. There we go. You have 31, six. 31, 36. So you got a slightly going over. And I can see that depending on if they decide to pick up the pace a little bit and open up the offense a little bit more, especially to start the game. I can definitely see them scoring 38. I think just Minnesota defenses, they're ranked, you know, fairly high there.

And both teams are considered bottom 5% of pace of play in all of college football. So I'm

curious to see how this first half will start out. Will we kind of get the same type of game

plan that we've been seeing lately against

the Power 5 teams? Or do we see them kind of open it up, stress the field? Yeah, I feel like this is the

week that they are going to unleash Julian against a Power 14. Like they unleashed them enough against

obviously Grambling and at least in the second half against Ohio University. Even in the second half last week against Washington, you can say they opened it up. But only had six possessions the entire game. As you mentioned, Ohio State's just, they don't have many plays. But I think this is the week they're going to take some more deep shots. As you mentioned, this Minnesota, we'll get to Minnesota's offense in a minute. I think they're actually better than I expected. but this defense seems leaky, giving up 27 points to Cal, giving up 28 to Rutgers. Yeah, I just, yeah,

I think this is the week that opened up the passing game a little bit, J.B. Well, the funny

part about it, we last week we were talking about how Washington's defense was leaky.

They were, they were one of the worst secondaries in

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