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The Good morning Bucknotters. Welcome to the Bucknuts Morning 5 here on Friday. May 16th, no, May 15th. I'm getting ahead of myself already. Friday, May 15th, 2026. I am Dave Biddle. I'll be joined by Jonah Booker in just a moment.

Main topic of conversation is going to be Jonah and I are going to predict the Big Ten football

standings for this coming year, one through eight. We're going to cut it off at eight.

You might give a couple other others receiving votes. I think we needed to go all the way to 18.

Three and go one through eight in order. I also think there's certain tiers. I think there's the top three are certainly in their in their own tier. So we can get into all that. And with no further ado, let's bring in my good friend, Jonah Booker. Jay Book, good to see you as always on a Friday. How you doing? Hey, I'm doing well.

And yourself?

Doing well, thank you. So, yeah, let's just get into it. I feel like, you know, and we can, as I was just saying in the intro, we can give a couple other, like, others receiving votes type things. But like, you know, we'll go one through eight in order predicting the Big Ten standings. I wonder if we're going to agree it.

We'll start at number one.

I have a feeling we might agree on this one.

Who you have at number one.

I have a feeling we might agree on this one.

Who do you have a number one?

Oh, this is going to, this is going to be an interesting one.

I actually have Oregon right here, Dave.

Yeah.

And my reason being, you look at Oregon.

They're bringing in probably the number two quarterback in the country, bringing him back and more.

You look at that offense, absolutely loaded.

They're going to be stacked on the offensive line.

They probably have the best defense aligned in college football.

So I just think this Oregon team, they're right. This is probably Dan Lennie's best roster that he's accumulated since he's been at Oregon. You look at their two running backs.

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