The Big Ten West & Pac-12 are wide open, and it's proof of why divisions are dumb
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
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🗓️ 15 November 2022
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
Andy and Scott Dochterman take a look at the frenetic Big Ten West and Pac-12 races. Before then, we take a moment to share our condolences and thoughts with those affected by the University of Virginia shooting.
- Our thoughts go out to those impacted by the UVA shooting (:10)
- The absurdity of the Big Ten West (Iowa is still in it! -- 4:15)
- The Pac-12 title race is ridiculous (16:45)
- Can Utah come out on top? (24:00)
- Caleb Williams and the Heisman race (27:30)
- Desmond Watson & big men TDs (31:00)
- What to expect from the 3rd week of CFP rankings (37:00)
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| 0:49.7 | We got a pretty serious, sad thing to talk about right off the top of the show. |
| 1:01.8 | And we kind of exist here, at least the hope is to be your oasis and your kind of escape from the horrible things that happen sometimes in the real world. |
| 1:07.0 | And unfortunately, sometimes the horrible things in the real world get dragged into the world of college football. |
| 1:12.5 | And so just thinking about everybody at Virginia, Devin Chandler, Lavel Davis Jr. and Deshaun Perry shot the suspect is Christopher Jones, former Virginia walk on. And it's just an |
| 1:20.3 | incredibly sad situation. I'm here with Scott Docterman. We are going to talk about football and |
| 1:25.4 | stuff on the field, but it's, this is just one of those |
| 1:30.1 | things that it just makes you sad, mad, you name it. |
| 1:34.3 | And just, just thinking about everybody at Virginia right now. |
| 1:37.7 | Yeah, I agree, Andy. |
| 1:38.8 | I mean, it's really a tough situation for everybody in Charlottesville in that area and then |
| 1:43.6 | around the country |
| 1:44.7 | because there's been, these things happen just about everywhere. |
| 1:48.2 | I mean, one that comes to mind for me was in, it's a long time ago, 1991, but it resonates |
| 1:53.2 | in Iowa City the day before a football game on the road, a man who was scorned, didn't |
| 2:00.8 | win an award he wanted, went into the main hall |
| 2:03.7 | at the University of Iowa and shot six people. And one of the women who worked in the Jessa |
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| 2:15.5 | was a backup quarterback on the Iowa football team. |
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