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I'm Stephen Means, and that's Stefan Kreisnick, and that is Andrew Gillis.

This is your Wednesday pod. Later on this afternoon at noon we'll be going live on YouTube and we're talking Big Ten quarterbacks. We're all three going to come with our different list of who we think the five best quarterbacks are in the Big Ten and why. And we have to have, we're going to talk about, you know, criteria for why. I can't just because I think that guy looks good. Like, no, what's your criteria? And we're also going to discuss whether or not we think the Big Ten is the best quarterback conference in college football right now. Because I do think there's at least two other conferences who can make a really strong case. I think the Big 12 in the SEC probably. ACC, I think coming into the year, probably had a strong case. And then they started playing football. And then we remember that it's the Atlantic Coast of Conference. And so, you know, at the football thing. But for right now, we talked with Ryan Day Tuesday afternoon as Ohio State prepares to play Minnesota on Saturday and what's going to be their only home game in the next month. We're about to be on the road, man. You guys ready?

Bucker Talk on the road? You ready to say goodbye to your homes for the next couple of weekends after this? No. Yeah, no. But yeah, I guess I have to be. Like, the funny part is I'm not even going to be at the Illinois game, but, like, I'm actually traveling further than you guys are for that weekend. my cousin's getting married so i'm going to that wedding and you guys are traveling i think five hours and i think i'm going seven so i'm still i'm just going the opposite direction in illinois there was there and listen i i love madison wisconsin let me get out front and say i think it's one of the the best college towns in the Ten, if not the best college town in the Big Ten.

There was one point where I was, there was one point where I was walking through Seattle, thinking to myself, what's left on the schedule is West Lafayette, Champaign, Illinois, and Ann Arbor, Michigan, and Ann Arbor, Michigan in late November. So I was going to say they're not at the most peak times of year. I'll say that I think Seattle and Columbus are more major city than college town.

So I don't even put them in the category of like, oh, what's the best college town? Because you have normal things to do outside of the fall months, right? Because I go to Seattle anytime. I like, you guys enjoyed Seattle, right? Seattle's fun. I would I would go back, even if it wasn't to watch a college football game. I would go to Seattle

like, you know, April or something like that. And same thing with Columbus. An Arbor, Madison,

Champaign, State College. Why are you there in April? On April 2nd. What are you doing?

I remember we were standing in line for, I remember, like,

first off, I think I, like, tweeted this before the game that how I was very glad that, like, you know, the Pac-12 merged, basically. But I remember I told Stefan, like, when we were, like, in Seattle, I was like, yeah, I don't want to live out here. I don't think I could. It's too far away from everything. And then I think we were standing in line for the space needle. And I went,

you know what, Stefan? I think I could live out here. I don't think I could. It's too far away from everything. And then I think we were standing in line for the space needle. And I went, you know what, Stefan? I think I could live out here

actually. This city's great. I think if we were from the West Coast, I could live there. But

I'm from the Midwest. My entire family would be an entirely different time zone than me. And so

that's the only reason I wouldn't live in Seattle. Because that's, because LA, you're just kind of in the mix a little bit more. Seattle's very much out the way. It's beautiful out there, though. It's beautiful. It's just very much out the way. It's no West Lafayette in November, though. Yeah, it's no West Lafayette November, though. It's not going to get you out like that well.

We talk with Ryan Day ahead of Ohio State's game against Minnesota, which is another fake college town because Minneapolis is a beautiful city. I hope you guys, when did they go to Minnesota? Because they've played Minnesota three times and they keep getting them at home. I don't know, but it's, it's, it's a one. I'll have an answer for you in a minute.

I'm Googling.

Okay, cool.

I'm going to filibuster until you find that answer because I don't want to come back to this.

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