Team Preview Trios: Ohio State + Notre Dame + Oregon

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I buy into that, but I think there may be a few more unknowns here than usual, just because of the churn that you have, but the thing about Ohio State, as we often say, questions are not weaknesses. And there are some questions technically about this team that will probably end up being strengths. They'd be the envy of like 95% of the country to begin with. So the breakout player on this team, I'm kind of not going to overthink the room here. I think it's Julian Saiyan, like I got quoted a few months ago as saying that, man, that guy lacks a little bit of heart. That guy lacks a little bit of willingness to do this and that. I was kind of anonymously quoting some people. Me personally, I got no problem by and all the Julian Saiyan stock. So I actually have him as the breakout player on this team and are in the second year. People forget he was a Heisman finalist last year. I sometimes forget that, but you think about year one as a starter in this league. It's now the best league in the country, by the way, 77% completion percentage, 32 to eight, TD to I and T, but all people remember is well Texas, Indiana, Miami, three touchdowns, three interceptions. And then against those kinds of teams, Ohio State's offense, they averaged 12.6 points per game compared to nearly 39, a little over 39 points per game in the other 11. So yeah, it's just standard stuff from a high level player, a year one to year two ramp up. I expected from him. I feel good. But things I think I know about Ohio State, Jeremiah Smith, best player on the roster, maybe the best player in the country. And he's a guy that you look at and you know, I can etch that in stone. We're watching a generational talent here. You through the first two years, a scene over 2,500 receiving yards to me, the much bigger question in lieu of things we know is how that wide receiver room sort of fills in behind him. I also think I know Ohio State will be better at running the football this year. You know, it was a team that looked really good last year, but they ranked 72nd in rush yards per game, which is, you know, not a disaster. But it's not up to the level that certainly you would affect this year with author Smith coming in, especially knowing the style of offensive coordinator he is. And as a result, having the kind of personnel they have and the overall identity they want to forge for running backs, return for offensive lineman return. I expect, I don't know what kind of jump I would expect, but I would say dozens and dozens and dozens of spots from where they were a year ago. And also, and this is kind of an evergreen thing you think you know about Ohio State. Young players will emerge because of the nature of the caliber of young players that they bring in there. Look at running back with Bo Jackson and Isaiah West. You could look at wide receiver with Chris Henry. You could look at another six to seven underclassmen just on the defensive to deep that figure to be really big impact players. One of the most fun things that you can do with Ohio State and two or three other programs are kind of like this is look at all the guys who come in and think to yourself, wow, even with how loaded, relatively speaking, their rosters usually are some of these freshmen who are coming in are superstars and you can't keep them off feel Chris Henry is probably that kind of player. In fact, he's definitely that kind of player. Three things I want to know. If we go a little bit more mysterious, the utilization of stars, not recruiting stars, but star players. This is not terminology that we use a whole lot on the show, but specifically with bringing in author Smith as the offensive coordinator. I learned quite a while ago, not to question Ryan Day. This is not me questioning him. It's questioning the specific way maybe that they're going to go about utilizing offensive personnel because I think the one thing maybe, if we get to December and we look back and we find that this Ohio State offense underachieved, the one thing I could see is maybe looking and saying, how did Jeremiah Smith only have this many receiving yards? Because author Smith, you know, for as much in my town of Nashville as he was praised for what he did with the Titans, you look elsewhere and one of the big criticisms just of his time in the NFL was, he doesn't, he doesn't rely on the star players that he should rely on. He doesn't fix the thing around them enough. So you just kind of wonder, what is Julian Sands output look like in year two? And that part is on his plate, but it's also on a coordinator's plate. Another thing I want to know, offensive line here, huge question, not weakness, but question. Are they good? Are they great? Are they elite? Because a bunch of production returns. So normally with a major program, when you have a ton of production returning, it's a really good thing. It is a good thing here, but how much of a good thing is it? Because it feels like both tackles spots are kind of still up in the air. That's what fall camps for. So that's not any reason for alarm. But a lot of times you could have a roster loaded with talent, but if there's one or two position groups that are built to be exposed in the postseason, well, that's it. And last year Ohio State's offensive line got exposed in the postseason and that was it. So do they let that happen again? Or are they better for it this year? Also defense. Does it take a step back? It's very, very unnatural to go back to back cycles where you lose eight defensive starters. You're having to replace eight defensive starters and not cause they aged out of college because they're headed off to the NFL in most cases. They're relying on six to seven portal guys and then you got young players, really good players, but guys like Edrick Houston at defensive tackle, Peyton Pierce is a linebacker there. Devon Sanchez at corner who probably gonna end up being one of the best players in the country. But I kind of wonder, like I'm not expecting them to have to number one defense in the country, but I wonder is this solidly a top 15 unit? How far is the drop off in other words? The best units on this team look quarterbacks one of them. I've talked about Julian saying a lot, but I really just picture him from all the returns we get. But I picture him having the taste in his mouth of that Indiana game and that Miami game, but outside of quarterback, I feel really good about running back as do most Ohio state fans. They got four different running backs that in some shape, former fashion could all be game changers. You know, Isaiah West actually is a guy. At the point, I'm recording this video who has gotten a lot of the one reps at tailback. But their running back room is kind of a Swiss army knife. You've got a little bit of everything in there of which you should. You're Ohio State. You can acquire a talent like that. And at corner, look, I think Devin Sanchez, there's no limit to what that kid can do. Could probably be top five in the country in that kind of conversation in his position. In Matthews, returning senior, you got her a little there, you got dominant Kelly, you got Jay Temmons. So corner is certainly one of the best units on this team. Breakout players right off the bat. The day he stepped on campus, Chris Henry, Jr. was going to be one of those at wide receiver and it just so happens. He's walking into a room that yes, it does have Jeremiah Smith. But behind Jeremiah Smith, there's talent, but there's no one who's entrenched. And that means guys like Chris Henry can come in there and they have shown in the past to Ohio State. They got no problem featuring young talent if it's ready. And Chris Henry is young talent that is ready. I think Edrick Houston just mentioned him a second ago, probably got the best raw ceiling of anyone at that position at defensive tackle and he's gotten rave reviews in fall camp. So why not circle him as a breakout player? And Devon Sanchez talked about him as well at corner, probably the best young player on that defense. The schedule breakdown is pretty unique because I don't think I've ever talked about a Ohio State schedule like this or if we have, it's been a long time. Not only do they play one of the toughest schedules in the big 10 and that's even considering they can't play themselves. So not only do they play a tough stretch in the big 10 where they're going to go on the road, Indiana on the road, USC, they go on the road to Iowa early, which is not easy. And then they got Oregon coming in there. They got a weird trip to Nebraska in late November, the week before they play Michigan at home and oh, by the way, they go to Texas in week two with the eyes of the world upon Austin, Texas. So what do we think here? What we like to do is kind of run a team through our model and spit out a best case, worst case, most likely record. The over under it, Fandals nine and a half right now for Ohio State, which by the way, is just astronomically high considering the schedule they play. The best case for Ohio State's 12 and 0 most every year, the best case if everything goes right is they'll be favored in most games. They can win every game. That's the best case. The worst case and this is not something you expect to happen. This is just because of how tough the schedule is. If they lost every loosable game like seven and five eight four seven and five somewhere in there. I think the most likely is ten and two Ohio State going ten and two. That could mean they lose the Texas game in one conference game. They play an indie for the big 10 championship. For all I know they win the big 10 title, but ten and two, no matter what, I think safely gets Ohio State in the playoff. Hey, this is A's Davenport and Sean Clements. We host the podcast Hollywood handbook on the big money players network. Our show is extremely accessible to first time listeners. Each week we talk to someone in show business, aka the biz, and try to help them with their careers and see what they have to offer us. We've had a lot of great guests like Sarah Sherman, not that great, you can help me shape this. Yeah. How about we flip it on his head? No. How about we flip this around? Okay. What is the surprise one, man? Well, actually, you think as the straight man is actually the one who's acting weird. Scott, this entire time you've been expecting Adam Sandler to come to visit the show. I would never let go of that. I have. 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One of the team previews I'm most excited to do. Note her name. Look at that smile on my face, Jesse. A lot of dollars out there. I don't know why. So I got Marcus Freeman coming off a year where they think they've been robbed of a playoff spot. And yet they've handled it the exact right way. So the general feeling going into 2026 me personally. I don't think I've ever seen a coming five year stretch where you could feel better about the trajectory and direction of Notre Dame football. And I feel sitting in 2026 looking out towards 2030 and 2031, number one in returning production, going to have one of the most talented defenses in the country of workable schedule, which they shouldn't be apologizing for because everyone else is bashing them for it. Who's the breakout player on this team? Very easy. Now, there may be more than one, but CJ cars got to be the guy you circle. Very, very easy quarterback position, most high profile position, also the easiest answer here. He feels like a lock year one to year two progression type guy. Say the same thing about Julian, say in a Ohio state, feel the same way right here in South Ben about CJ car, do you happen to see Todd McShay talking about him at the Manning Passing Academy? I believe his exact words were best passer at the Manning Passing Academy. Year 300 Mike Dembrock as well. You know, those can name Jaden Daniels that had a pretty good year once upon a time under Mike Dembrock. So, look, he may have the best raw passing traits of anyone in this sport this year. And it would not shock me at all, not only to maybe see him when the Heizman who he is favored, he's favored in the Heizman, Isaac Fandall right now. But like that NFL draft conversation, all that stuff that's well down the road, he is a central figure there and will continue to be the things I think I know about this Notre Dame team, as we sit here, less than a month until kickoff, clearly one of the best defenses in college football. Top 12 unit last year, they were fourth in FBS in shutting down opposing passing attacks. And you got the best corner in the sport and Leonard Mora. You got a really, really good safety duo linebacker core returns everyone. Really an incredible group here. And they face eight offenses that were 99th or worse in the country last year. Not that they needed help statistically, but they'll probably get it. I think the running back room has a lot of talent. And this is going to fly in the face of sort of conventional wisdom. So conventional wisdom is if you just have a player like Jadarian Price, much less a player like Kim and Jeremiah love both come through at the same time, you're going to have significant drop off 99 times out of 100. And I'm not saying they won't have drop off there. I'm certainly not saying this year's running back room right on par with last year's. But this running back room is good. Like if you did not know what happened last year and you just had this to go on, you would look at Notre Dame's running back room, and they as Williams, Nolan James, Kedring, you would say, I feel pretty good about that room. So at the very least, we're not looking at a weakness here. Most of the times this would be an outright weakness and like a bunch of red alarm bells would be going off. So I feel good about that room. This is not a panic spot for me at all. Defensively, defensive line is probably their biggest question. Like if you wanted to use the word weakness, but it's all relative here. That's just because secondary and linebackers are incredible. So if you have to pick a spot on the defense, I guess it's the unfortunate, like, unlucky day for defensive line at Notre Dame. But past rush could be awesome. So there'll be good there too. This is not a weakness. And naturally. terms. The things I think I know, this is where we draw a little bit bigger of a question mark. You got to go immediately to the wide receiver room or maybe just pass catchers. Let's not limit it just to wide receivers, but this is probably the department. If you get in those one possession tight games in the playoff, that will determine whether or not they can win a national championship. And I look at a lot of wide receivers here. You got Faeson, you got Great House, you got Milen Graham, Quincy Porter, like they all have traits, but you sit there and wonder to yourself, is there a true bonafide wide receiver one in that group? Or are we just looking at a bunch of guys who would be good complimentary pieces, wide receiver two, three types without a wide receiver one? And does that bite us come playoff time? Does that bite us against a Miami? Do we go get ourselves in some early trouble on the road at Brigham Young against a veteran team out in Provo? And we need to throw the ball and move it down the field and we really can't do it. And then the reason I say pass catchers is Ian Premers there, who is a five star true freshman tight end, but a guy who figures to play in immediately at 662 45. And who knows? Maybe you look up and he's got 850 receiving yards in year one. And he's the guy who bailed you out. That kind of stuff's happened before. May happen with Notre Dame this year. Another question that I think I know the answer too, but it's at least something that I want to know. Is there a game where they lose along the lines of scrimmage? Is there a game where they kind of get outplayed up front? That offensive line is strong. They got good depth, but that that unit going from good good solid to wow, this may be a fringe Joe Moore award type unit to hey man, they're the front runner for the award because that happened a couple of years ago, by the way. That would be a huge difference maker here. Also winning big games is something that I kind of want to see them do. It's not that I doubt they can. I just want to see him do it because they had two shots in the regular season last year. And yeah, they were both close games, but they lost them. Other team had more points than them at the end. And then you kick it back to the year before. If you wanted to be a hater here and trust me, there are a bunch of them in my inbox and you wanted to sort of, you know, like pick a part note or name, you could say they don't win big games. And then you say, didn't they just play for a national title the year before? I speak from experience. I've had this debate. The hater will say, yeah, but think about the path. I mean, they played Indiana the year before Indiana was really elite. And then they played a Georgia team without it starting quarterback. And then they played Penn State and Penn State can never win big games either. So somebody who can't win big games had to win the game. And then they finally got flushed against Ohio State. That's what it sounds like. Okay, the easy way to shut that up is just use this team and win big games. The best units on this team linebacker, very, very obviously they got four upper class men that would probably start most anywhere to an incredible group. It is one of the unit strengths, unit for unit of any team in the country. And also corner. I mean, Leonard Moore is a top 10 pick as we sit here today. I would also mention like Christian Gray on most other teams will get a lot more mentioned than he will because he happens to be on the same field as Leonard Moore. Jayden Sanders, DJ McKenney transferred in here like they got a really, really good secondary specifically at corner. Okay. If we had to circle breakout players already mentioned one, Ian Premer only behind Cooper Flanagan on the death chart. And frankly, Premer has a different skill set in Flanagan. You would think more in line blocking with Flanagan. So I expect Ian Premer, especially on a team with no bona fide star breakout wide receiver to be a factor this year. Also Anis Williams at running back because we talked about that room a second ago. If I had to circle a player in that room, Anis Williams, I love his opportunity this year because even though America doesn't know his name, the style of play that Notre Dame incorporates doubly, especially if the past game is an electric this year could be such that he puts up in a thousand yard rushing season. And someone will say it came out of nowhere. It's not coming out of nowhere. I know that because it's August. And so I'm telling you right now, really, really good player. Milen Graham, by the way, if there is a breakout player in that wide receiver room, if I had to circle one, you know, looking at the physical makeup, maybe it's Milen Graham transferred in there from Ohio State. The schedule breakdown, it's been talked about ad nauseam. I'm not going to beat this to death because teams are not schedules. Schedules are just things that teams play. And if you got a soft schedule, okay, if you got a hard schedule, okay, go win your games. I think Notre Dame will win a lot of them this year. Seventh easiest schedule according to our strength of schedule model. Internally, I think they're going to be 17 plus point favorites, probably in nine of their 12 games. They get Miami at home in November. You know the deal. So the best case, the worst case in the most likely. According to our model here, easily the best case for this Notre Dame team is 12 and no undefeated number one seed in the playoffs. What is the worst case? This is a mouthful here. I think their worst case is nine and three, which is insane to say, but like given the lack of strength of schedule here in the quality of this team, I have no idea how it would be worse than nine and three. The most likely it is 11 and one. And it's really looking at the Miami game and the Brigham Young game and the SMU game and thinking, okay, if you, if you average out losing, you know, one third of those games each time, there's probably a loss baked in there in the aggregate. This team's got an excellent opportunity to go undefeated. I think 11 and no or 12 and or 11 and one or 12 and no is the most likely here with Notre Dame and solidly in the playoff. Our show is extremely accessible the first time listeners. Each week, we talk to someone in show business, aka the biz and try to help them with their careers and see what they have to offer us. We've had a lot of great guests like Sarah Sherman, not that great. I actually, can you help me, can you, can you help me shape this? Okay. How, what is the surprise one then? Well, actually, you think is the straight man is actually the one who's acting weird. Adam Scott, this entire time, you've been expecting Adam Sandler to come to visit the show. 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Listen to our town on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Okay, Oregon team break down. Is this the best team in the big 10? Dan Lanny, a couple of new coordinators, even though even so, is this the best team in the big 10? The general feeling heading into 2026 is for the second consecutive year. Of course, you're coming off a year where your final game saw you get blown out. It was Ohio State two years ago. It was at the hands of Indiana last year. Sealing wise, I could still call this the best team in the big 10. But yet, I would understand if there is exception taken to that in Columbus or Bloomington or whatever. So point is virtually everyone plays everyone this year. We'll find out on the field. But quarterbacks where you have to start with this team. Dante Moore has got a shot to do some really special stuff this year. Could have probably been a first round pick last year. But he's back. He had 72% completion percentage last year. 30 touchdowns. And yet, [BLANK_AUDIO] those kind of numbers, just some inconsistency. And against Indiana, that's that five turnover nine sat game. Things just went off the rails. But he struggled against Iowa, Texas tech, like those were not games that you readily throw on the highlight reel for Dante more. And that's good. Okay. That means you come back, you learn from it, you work on it, you get better, had four games under 200 yards passing in big 10 play last year. Cool. Okay. Flash last year. Shine this year. Three things I think I know about this Oregon team. Number one, defensive line. Could be slash should be nasty this year. All four starters return. And frankly, that's not a headline I thought I'd be reading. I thought I'd be talking about attrition. I thought I'd be talking about multiple guys moving on. But Amari Washington's back, Bear Alexander's back. Mateo Uyangale is back. They've got a crew there and they've got depth. So the thing about it is because those guys are back, you got guys behind them that we really thought would be frontline starters this year. And that's second unit on this defensive line could probably start collectively, like 80% of other programs out there. However, I'm not going to act like this unit was just a bunch of world beaters throughout the year last year. So middle of the road in sacks last year, 69th sacks per game tackles for loss 97th per game. So there's room for improvement. I don't want to paint it any other way. I'm just saying that defensive line unit is is one of the envies of most other programs in the country. Also something I think I know this secondary I don't think is a weakness. Even if it's mostly underclassmen, I wouldn't paint it as a weakness. You got a couple of top in corners there. The 2D is littered with blue chip guys. Again, this is one of about five programs that you just blindly learn to trust on talent acquisition and that talents there. I think it'll be interesting. If you're pointing out some inexperience there, I think it'll be interesting if they go up against veteran coordinators. Can someone take advantage of that? I mean, that's the kind of deal where you look past the talent and you talk about the exes and those aspect and the staff versus staff aspect. That's kind of where that would crop up. Probably not early, but eventually this season if it does happen. Also, I think I know if healthy organs, offensive arsenal can be a top five unit. It could be the best in the country really. If everything comes together because I haven't even mentioned Jamari Johnson and that's a cat at tight end that could explode not on to Oregon fans radar as you guys know about him. But in Norfolk Virginia, they don't really know much about Jamari Johnson. They know about Kenyan Sadiq because they watched him tear it up last year. So I would look for him. They got four underclassmen that could play major roles here, running back, a wide receiver. They get Evan Stewart back. He's been the talk of their camp so far this August. So an embarrassment of riches. They got players everywhere. Now the things I want to know, offensive line churn. If there's something you see from 50,000 feet about this Oregon team that you think could be a hiccup, could be a hang up to just pencil them into the final four. It would probably be a line. This is the second straight year. They lose three plus starters on the offensive line. You remember last year, they wouldn't got pregnant and world out of the transfer portal and this year they really didn't do that. They got one guy and he'll start. But otherwise, your three interior offensive linemen are all seniors. You're counting on your acquisition and development model. And they should. They're really good at it. But last year, Dante Moore in big games didn't have the best protection. So that's kind of something that you have to watch this year because if it's only pretty good, pretty good gets got in the playoff. So you got to pay attention to that. Also, having two new coordinators, even if they were both in your building last year, does that change anything? Because they're both taken on P4 coordinator duties for the first time. And that means at Oregon, you got a head coach, OCDC trio, none of whom are older than 40 years old. It's like reverse ageism in a way. There's not the wrong with that. Like if you got studs, you got studs and Dan Lanick's churned coaches out up there because they've been really good at putting together good staffs. But that was a top 10 offense last year. Number one, an explosive plays that defense was a top 12 unit. Number five in past defense. So there's not far to climb. There's a long way to fall. What's the impact there? And also, I mean, this is the question with this program. Overall, is can they peak in the playoff? Can they peak at the right times? They've had no problem, you know, looking incredible at points during regular seasons, only for it to end with a thought a couple of times. Last two years, the year before, like in the big games against Washington, they had two shots. They couldn't get it done. Do they get that I can tell you though, get their shot in big games this year? Do they get it done? Can they peak at the right time? Best units defensive line. We already talked about that. Wide receiver, very easy to circle with this team. I'm buying all that Evan Stewart hype kind of delayed had it last year. And I'm just going to copy and paste it to this year. You know, knock on all the wood on the desk here that he's healthy. And corner, couple of really good pieces there on the front line. And you got Aaron Scott, Neem offered that makes an extremely strong corner back room. The breakout player on this team to me is deer hill. We've had a lot of fun kind of talking about him throughout Oregon's fall camp because you've got a really unique skill set there that the way I always think about that is if I look at a headline and I'm middle of a Saturday afternoon, Oregon's playing some back just took one to the house on you know, some kind of standard dump off pass out in the flat. That's probably deer hill, but he's also 5 11 205. So if you really need him to get you some tough yards, he can probably do that too. I like him a lot. The zero, why it only three sacks last year, but could probably profile as a better pass Russia, the new young LA. And you can't really afford to double in because of what else Oregon has on the defensive front and Evan Stewart. Again, I've mentioned him 14 times, but Evan Stewart technically qualifies as breakout potential this year because he was hurt last year. The schedule break down 20th in overall strength the schedule and FBS. It's strong slate. You got a tough game in week four going to USC, but what I don't want to do is I don't want to just skim over Boise. I don't want to skim over anyone, but Boise is probably the best G 16 in the country by a wide margin in the model's opinion to start the year. Oregon should win the game. Oregon will be favored by multiple touchdowns. But this is not, this is not, you know, an FCS dial up a W type situation in week one. They go to still water in week two. Again, everything's new there should take care of business, but eventually you get into the teeth of big 10 play. You got a trip to Illinois. You got a trip to Ohio State. You come home versus Michigan right after you play Ohio State, Washington at the end of the year could be tough. So the model's opinion on Oregon best case worst case most likely. I think the best case is 12 and 0 because again, this may be the best talent roster in America. So yeah, if everything goes right for them, they can win every game they play. That'd be very impressive, but the over unders 10 and a half for a reason at Fandall. The worst case, I'd say is eight and four. I'd say that requires the offensive line not panning out. That requires Dante more to not really take much of a progression forward. Probably some more injuries pile up. Maybe all that combined gets him to eight and four. I think the most likely is 11 and one. I mean, I think they have an incredible year. I think that a lot of the past two years, the way it's finished has bottled up. And I think 11 and one, it probably hasn't played for a conference title. It's definitely got them in the playoffs. So big year coming up for Oregon. Must be 21 plus and present in select states for Kansas, in affiliation with Kansas, Starkisino, or 18 plus and present in DC. First on my real money wager only, $5 first deposit required bonus issued as non withdrawal bonus bets, which expire seven days after receipt, and the last one. Hope and why in New York. 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