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It's Ari Mo moves to Friday Day.

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Now, in its proper place, Friday is the best day of the week.

Ari and I are talking games, talking lines, but first we have to talk about a game that happened on Thursday night.

Ohio State beats Minnesota, but it is not easy.

It was fun to watch.

And I don't know that we can have any grand takeaways for this thing, but is it possible,

Ari, to be very confident in both teams coming out of a game

like that? Because I am. Yeah. Yeah. You made the point that you're more confident maybe in

Minnesota's ability to compete in the Big Ten West after that. And, you know, that's a, I think we got

a really important piece of context because coming

into the year, what we, the question with Minnesota was, were they the team that had one of

the best seasons in program history from two years ago, uh, that had a weird year because

of COVID or did COVID not really impact them and they just had one blissful year that

was way over their heads and their ceiling? And like to me, I know that Ohio State has a new quarterback and it was on the road. It was week one. It was raining. Mo Ibrahim is a really, really good running back. It's kind of a tough place to play in week one. I don't know how long he's going to be out, unfortunately. Yeah, hopefully not very long.

But in terms of what you saw from a talent standpoint out there, you know,

with Tanner Morgan and some of the guys out there, they got a few receivers out there that caught my eye.

I don't see it.

Two years ago, the last we saw of their offensive line two years ago,

they were pretty much manhandling

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