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WHAT WAS THAT? It warn't good'n, I tell ya.

DEBACLE COUNT. It's really high.  What's going on, man.

ZOMBIE ACE IS ZOMBIE ACE. I but he does bring up the Vincent Smith halfback pass call.

LLOYDBALL. I take it all back, Lloydball.

PAPER RUSTLING. Record. Record paper rustling. 

DEFENSE! That was pretty awesome. Maybe ND can't move the ball that well but any way you slice it it's encouraging. 

DOES QUINTON WASHINGTON HAVE ARMS? I say yes. Ace says no. 

DEFENSIVE LINE DOING THINGS. Linebackers moving as a result. 

HEIKO SLEEPING IN THE BACKSEAT. Where you at, Heiko?

TALKIN' BIG TEN WITH JAMIEMAC. He still won't concede Purdue as the favorite in whatever the other division is. Also discussion of the Illinois loss to Louisiana Tech descends into manic laughter. 

SONGS.  "Always Look on the Bright Side of Life," Monty Python. "Panic," The Smiths. I must have used this before but Google didn't think I did. Surely I must have though. Surely. 

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COOPER BARTON. Ace was in The Presence. Then he got some chicken. 

FUNCHESS. Like OMG I don't know why Ace is so high on this guy. 

OFFENSIVE LINE: CONCERN? At this point, probably.

DENARD INT. Still an every game thing, it seems. 

DL: WHERE IS IT? Let's recycle this one from last week

SPREAD PUNT PLZ. MSU, ND, and OSU are now using this thing.

TALKIN' BIG TEN WITH JAMIEMAC. Mostly discussion of the MSU-ND game for obvious reasons. (Those being: no one else played anyone last week and no one plays anyone this week. Woo nonconference schedule.) We do get into Cal-OSU, the tire fire in Madison, and repeat this dramatic assertion: PURDUE IS YOUR LEWHATEVER DIVISION FAVORITE. 

SONGS.  "I Bombed Korea," Cake. "Disarm," Smashing Pumpkins. "Gangnam Style," PSY. It happened. I saw it. Was anyone else paying attention? 

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[DOH: this didn't get FPed when I posted it at nine.]

Not terrible. First couple minutes got cut off, though, so the start is a little awkward.

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OFFENSIVE LINE WHAT. We are concerned. I do think they are coming from everywhere, FWIW.

HELLO FUNCHESS. Welcome to our lives. FWIW, the guy who applied "the Funchise" to Funchess first was indeed Scott Burnstein of the Oakland Press.

DENARD: ACCURATE? Seems like it. We're still being careful. 

HELLO FRESHMAN LINEBACKERS. We're a bit less enthused about this development. Ace likes it. 

DL: WHERE IS IT? Seriously. 

JEREMY GALLON 2011. Someone return him to functional status please. 

THIS LEAGUE! Man, we spent all last year complaining about the Big Ten. Hope you liked that because we're going to keep doing it. I ask Jamie if Purdue is the favorite in the Le-whatever division. We talk about Minnesota making a bowl in the Le-whatever division. The Big Ten. 

SONGS.  "Highway to the Danger Zone," Kenny Loggins. Obligatory. "Paint It Black," The Rolling Stones. "E-Pro," Beck. 

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Okay, so... Ace was in Dallas and so was Jamie and I'd forgotten that Jamie was going to be in an airport until we actually tried to call him. So we're at about 30 minutes this week.

Also, this is a terrible podcast. Do not listen to it. This happens to us after extremely terrible games. We wake up the next day wanting to do nothing, go into the studio, mumble at each other for a while, and then stop. Do not listen to this podcast. 

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THAT SUCKED. Yup.

SONGS.  The first one is a joke, please don't get mad. The second one is "Learn to Say No" by Lydia Loveless, off of Indestructible Machine.

BONUS. The "general podcast feed link" should now work. Let me know if it doesn't.

UPDATE: download link updated. 

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A two-hour season preview spectacular.

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ACE DUCKS AND COVERS. Defcon suicide at a high school football game.

QB, RB, WR, OL. The offense is previewed, Gardner is hyped, the OL is pumped except for the backups.

NORFLEET!  Yeah, baby.

DL, LB, DB. We're super confident about the defensive line! Seriously! False. But we've got safeties and linebackers and such. [Note: there's a couple minutes of audio distortion at the end of this segment. It gets better. Skip to 54 minutes to get past it.]

HELLO JAMIE. We talk about the Big Ten (but not Indiana or Penn State).

SPORTSWRITER IT UP. We finish up with a bit of a roundtable. Which Michigan pass-catching target will break out? How ludicrous can we make Ace's prediction of Gardner's production?

SONGS.  "Bombs Over Baghdad," Outkast. "1901," Phoenix. "Fireworks," The Tragically Hip.

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About 50 minutes. Also, I'm hosting, so you'll have to wait for another time to hear Brian's dulcet tones on the mic.

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RECRUITIN'.  Alex Gleitman of Eleven Warriors and Jeff Junstrom of Black Shoe Diaries join me to give an overview of the current classes at Ohio State and Penn State, respectively.

MORE RECRUITIN'. The top remaining positions of need—and the top targets to fill those needs—are discussed. You should be able to guess my top three Michigan targets without even bothering to listen (but please listen).

THE QUEST FOR THE HOLY RECRUITING GRAIL. Realistic expectations for how each class will fill out are put forth, as are guesses about where they will land in the national team rankings. I try very hard not to scream "eat it suckers we're number one!!!1!" I mostly succeed.

EVERYBODY IN THE CLUB COMMITTIN' EARLY. Why? We have theories.

NON-COMMITTABLE OFFERS AND YOU. Hate to break it to you, but Brady Hoke recruits a lot more like Urban Meyer than Bill O'Brien.

SONGS. Um, Brian chose the songs. Ask him. [ED: There aren't any songs except for the intro and outro since it's just one long segment.]

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