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Welcome back to your Friday luck. I talk. It's game preview time, Doug Lamerie,

Nathan Barrett, Stephen Means, and special guests to help kick off this podcast, Keith

Sargent, one of the finest beatwriters in all the land, covered Rutgers for NJ.com, our

sister company. Keith, thanks for your time, man. We're excited to have you on.

I mean, you said special, special guest. That might be a little bit too much, Doug.

Run of the mill guest, Keith Sargent, average, average dude. Rutgers Keith seems, I think,

from the outside to the average Ohio State fan, Rutgers seems to heck up a lot more interesting

than Rutgers football was a couple years ago. Is that a fair assessment?

I think it's fair. I think in some ways, Doug, I think there sounds like Pinocchio. I'm a real

boy, but I think in some ways, I think they're a real big 10 program right now.

As you don't get any more indication, then the second half at Michigan last week, I think there

was a little bit of skepticism from last season. No one really knew whether that was legit because

of the COVID year, even the first three weeks when Rutgers got off to the first 3 and 0 start in

nine years, skepticism because of who they played. But second half against Michigan, even though

it was ultimately a loss, they really took it to Michigan. They beat them on both sides of the

ball on the trenches, held them to three hours on four straight possessions. They really dominated

in the run run game. They helped kept Michigan's run game and checked. And again, like I said, I

think they look like a real big 10 program. I wanted to kind of get your further assessment on that

Michigan game because I know people see that final score and probably make assumptions. But then

also if you watched the first half of that game, you saw Michigan kind of dominating things too.

But then at the same time Rutgers, I think went forward on fourth down a couple times and didn't

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