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Crimson Cash Scott here with you.
James will be on in one second. I apologize second podcast of
the day. My throat is a little bit sore
and working through an illness, but I unlike Joel and beat I'm
playing back to backs. I'm playing through some stuff I
see actually one of my neighbor kids friends is walking up.
He's going to knock on the door here.
I'm sure in 2 minutes. My son's not going to answer.
I have to go interview that it's just podcasting in in real life
with kids is fantastic. But thank you guys for joining
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Good. How are you?
I'm doing all right, getting over a cold.
It's been a crazy couple of weeks, but we're making it
through and I, I'm going to, I'm, I'm coming over.
So I'm going to be good for the Michigan game, which is the
important thing. I was like, don't, I can't be
sick for Michigan. I will be down there for the
game as well. My father-in-law was going to go
with me. He's a huge Michigan fan and I
bought him. I bought the season ticket
package I picked. This is one of the games to be
like his Christmas gift, you know, and he's bailed on me.
So I had to so I I found somebody who was willing to go.
And so I can't wait. I'm very excited about it, so.
One of my best friends, Danny is a Michigan grad.
I I seem to have friends in all big 10 other teams, which is
annoying, but he he actually went to Michigan.
So we've had this for for years. That the two things First off
this morning we had we had coffee and he was joking because
his parents, who I've mentioned I'm I'm really good friends with
as well. And we talked.
They they're go their IU fans are through and through.
They go to games. He knows I go to games.
He knows how much you love IU football.
And he's like, this is a little bit like he's like, if my kids
end up going to another big 10 school, like I'm going to have
to root for that school, even if they're playing Michigan.
Like it's kind of how I feel now is like the the game doesn't
mean that much for us. It means so much for you.
And like, I know my mom would be broken hearted.
Like I'm kind of going to be rooting for Indiana, like I'm
rooting for one of my kids. And then the other thing, we
always joke every year because I would say this every year, but I
don't matter what what Michigan was doing.
I was like, this game matters more to us than it matters to
you because if we beat you, we can beat Michigan once every
like 20 years. Like you beat us every year.
He's like, no, because we're playing for a title.
Like if we lose to you, it ruins our season.
Like you don't get it, Like you beat us, you don't care, like
you lose to us. You still might be able to do
something like we beat you. That's that's a five year
window. So we we argue over that every
year. This is the first year He's
like, dude, you're right. It matters more for you than
this year than it does for. Us.
Yeah, it does. This is a big game.
This is the biggest game in program history.
And the next game after this, assuming we win, will be the
biggest game in program history. So we're kind of at that point
now where pretty much every game from here on out is going to be
bigger than the last. I agree, although I, I I think
this game is going to be the best atmosphere.
I I I haven't checked the weather yet.
We. Didn't get a towels.
I hope there's towels 'cause I don't have to bring my my
signeti towel. No, no, there are.
I I did a podcast with Jeremy Gray.
There's going to be towels for every game the rest of the
season, new new slogans, new logos for each one.
It's it's a real thing and it might be going for multiple
seasons in the future. So you'll get a new towel, but I
haven't checked the weather. We got to check Galen on this.
But if the weather is nice, I I think this will be the best
atmosphere we've ever seen at a game in Memorial Stadium.
And and it probably will be the best this season because even
though Purdue's the bucket game, Michigan has an air of you know,
you don't beat them very often. They're they're up there as a
name. They're defending champs.
They you know, they're a blue blood in college back in college
football. It it it just is a little bit
different and you know, we should beat them, but we may not
like I I just I think this is going to be quite the atmosphere
this weekend. It's.
Going to be tough to beat that Washington game with game day
there. That crowd was pretty high, so.
I agree but it's a 330 game but we'll see.
Yeah, a little extra drinking, a little extra tailgating before
kickoff never hurts for the noise factor, that's for sure.
What is your tailgate set up to tell me why I look up the
weather? Well, my buddy John is going to
come down with me. That's it.
I actually watched the Nebraska game at his house and he made
the best chicken wings I've ever had in my life.
And so I'm very excited for him to try Galen's food at Galen's
tailgate where I will be at in lot 12.
So make sure to stop him by give Galen and myself, you know, a
hello and let's go Hoosiers and all that.
Although don't give me the go Hoosier.
Go Hoosier. I, I don't that Signetti's
trying to make happen. I it's, it's the oddest chance
somebody needs to teach him the Hoo Hoo Hoo Hoosiers thing.
Like it just seems I don't know. Yeah, but no one needs to teach
Signetti anything. I think we know.
Signetti, whatever he does, we do.
So go Hoosier. It's such an awkward can't
though. Don't care, we're ranked 8th in
the College Football Playoff, man.
Like go Hoosier. I'll let it go.
Weather for Saturday right now is showing partly cloudy skies
and 62° at night 53 with rain showers in the evening.
But it just depends on what you consider evening.
We don't have an hour by hour breakdown.
So hopefully, you know, 330 kick off evening, hopefully they're
thinking is 910 o'clock. But we we shall see.
Hopefully that continues to push back.
Doesn't get darker like 430 now. So like with the stupid time
change, it's getting dark pretty early these days.
All right, let's get to this week's lines.
Well, as as per usual for Crimson Cash, we will leave
Indiana to last. We are going to start with Iowa
traveling all the way out West, going out to UCLA, Iowa at
UCLAUCLA because they suck, is a six point underdog at home.
They suck, but they screwed us over last week, so we give them
some respect there. In fact, I think this is twice
they've screwed us over now. So we're going to stay away from
the spread on this game and we're going to look at the total
and we're going to go over 44 1/2.
Iowa has been killing that total all year, and I expect that to
continue. OK, you don't like the UCLA
spread? I don't like the spread.
I like the total on this game. I think that's where the money's
at. I was only gone under the total
once this year. OK, you were too short.
I have AI have a minute song here.
I can't end it. I got to keep playing so we get
like 12 more seconds of California love.
Hey, just let it go, yeah. All right, here we go, End of
Tupac. All right, so our next game is
going to be Minnesota. They're rowing their boat all
the way to Piscataway and Rutgers.
We have Minnesota at Rutgers. Rutgers is a 6 1/2 point
underdog at home. Man, Rutgers, remember, they
were like, are they a stealth chance to make the College
Football Playoff? They are four and four and a 6
1/2 point underdog at home now to Minnesota.
They're having a very IU season, a very like Tom Allen esque
season. They start off 4 and O the world
looks great and they've completely shit the bed and lost
four in a row. Minnesota, on the other hand,
since losing to Michigan in a close game, has been on quite
the roll. I think they continue that and I
think they cover this pretty easily.
I I really like this one. We don't have a song yet for
Ohio State, so we that this is up for grabs.
Shoot us a text. Shoot James on Twitter on X at
Crimson Cast 260 or myself at Crimson Cast 317.
We are up for ideas for the Ohio State song.
This should probably be whatever, just the song of an
ass kicking is. I'm not sure what that is, but
that's what it's going to be because Ohio State is at home
and they are a this big number boy, 38 point favorite at home.
So I wrote some notes here but my handwriting so shit, I don't
know what my notes are. Oh here they are.
OK, so some interesting other lines on this game.
The team total on Ohio State is at 41 1/2.
And so you can get that Purdue has given up 50 points three
different times this year to Illinois, Wisconsin and Notre
Dame, all right? So I think you're really getting
the Buckeyes to get 42 points here, all right, So first of
all, I love that bet. Secondly, I think Purdue really
sucks and 38 points and Ohio State being 5th in the College
Football Playoff. Ryan Day knows he's got to get
some style points here because he might have a second loss on
that record here in a few weeks. So they got to get as many style
points as they can. Boilers have been crushed by
teams that are way worse than Ohio State.
The game's at Ohio Stadium. The overland on this is 53 1/2,
which means even Vegas is they have produced over under 7 1/2
on their team total. So and under 7 1/2 is I think
-160 so they're expecting Purdue not to get more than a
touchdown. I think the Buckeyes role here.
I like their team total. I like them to cover the spread
as well. It's funny you mentioned Ohio
State meeting style points cause Indiana's in the same boat and I
feel like they're going to run it up on like Purdue's in a
rough spot here. They're playing a lot of teams
that need style points and they're just going to be a team
that gets just punching bagged. Oh wait, no, I don't feel bad
'cause they're Purdue, so live it up.
Oh yeah. All right, Next up, new one for
you. I went on my own with the song.
We have Maryland going out to the West Coast to play the
Oregon Ducks. All right, so Oregon is big
number again. Oregon is a 24 1/2 point
favorite against the Maryland Terrapins.
In 3rd grade I had nothing for show and tell one week and so I
sang the DuckTales theme song to the.
Class, let's hear you. There you go.
All right. All right, Oregon's going to
cover this. Teams that have beaten Maryland
by more than 24 1/2 points include Northwestern and
Minnesota, though I certainly think Oregon can rise to the
challenge here and in what will be an evening game for Maryland.
But in the late afternoon game for Oregon?
Yeah, give me the Ducks. Wait, wait.
All right.
Last but not least on the spread, we have Washington
coming back to Penn State. Penn State, you know, of course
they're ranked higher because they started the season ranked
higher and they're so great even though they don't beat anybody.
Not that I have thoughts. Penn State is a 13 point, 13 1/2
point favorite at home against Washington.
Penn State is without a doubt the most overrated team in the
country. Maybe so we don't have a song
for them. Maybe like what's the most
overrated song? I don't know that that maybe we
go along those lines just to think about it.
I'm I'm not sure. That would be anything by Taylor
Swift, probably. Oh wow.
Oof. No, no, no, not not angering
the. Oh, oh, yeah, that's right.
Oh, cut that cut, cut. No, James said.
It come after. Him.
They're going to get me. Those cookies are coming.
What would you rather have? No.
Never mind. OK, I better stop.
New, new topic I I, I would say I, I, I think the number of
people who are Taylor Swift like super fans and then there are
people who listen to Crimson Cash are probably 2 Venn
diagrams that don't don't collide too much.
So we're probably. OK, well I was going to make a
Penn State molestation joke, so I stopped myself at least from
that. So.
I don't want to start editing podcasts, I want to get this
loaded and go get on with my day.
Now I OK, so when I was making my list here and picking the
games, I picked Penn State to cover this spread because I
think they need to, because I think they realize they're not
very good. Whether or not they can is
another matter. And so I wrote stay away.
So my advice is stay away because I, I keep doubting
what's going to go on. I think Washington is a decent
football team. They were one of the better
teams. I think IE has played this year.
I really like that running back of theirs.
You know, I Penn State, it's a night game at Happy Valley
though. So that's a big deal because
they do usually kind of get up for those.
And and so I think that gives them a few points there, but
stay away from this. You don't want any part of this,
people. Is it, is it a whiteout?
Can we talk about another Penn State whiteout?
Is that going to be so dominating?
Are they? Obviously ugly as that stadium
though. Yeah, it holds a bajillion
people. Nothing's ass ugly.
It's like they just you know, that like end zone, like upper
deck. It's just like they just plopped
it on there like it's it's disgusting looking.
Look, memorial statement may not be the biggest, but that thing
is beautiful. I agree and it's just like I'm
so tired of white out and talk about why it's like, dude, fine,
we get it. But by the way, like can you
guys maybe one of these years earn the prime time game instead
of just getting these games? I'm tired of Penn State.
I'm so tired of Penn State. All right, let's get to the
marquee game, the 3:30 CBS game, deservedly so.
Michigan coming to the beautiful Memorial Stadium as called by
James for the 8th ranked Indiana Hoosiers.
Indiana is a 14 1/2 point favorite at home.
Indiana has covered all the spreads this year.
This is a big number. I, I think it's what, since like
the 40s or 50s, we've had a spread this big against
Michigan. What do you think James?
Can we keep the cover streak alive?
Well, in the 40s or 50s you probably had to get that spread
for your bookie. Yeah, maybe it wasn't.
A sound like a water in the. Cold.
Not even that happened. Or some wise guy on the corner,
I don't know. But when this first came out, we
were looking around 10 and a half. 11 1/2 is when it came out
all right. And then immediately shot up to
over 2 touchdowns on FanDuel right now as a recording this
you can get into 13 1/2. Oh, OK.
So if you got a FanDuel account, hammer that I I love that point
there. I think that point is critical.
All right. But I don't think it's really
going to matter in the long run. I think we're looking at a
situation where I use offensive strengths are aplenty and
Michigan does have some very good defensive line play, but
they're a little iffy in the back end of the defense.
And so I think that the wide receivers are going to have a
heyday. I think if as long as Curtis
worked and get the ball out quickly, which he's excellent at
doing, I think they're going to make hay on offense.
I think they'll be able to put up 34 points, probably 35 at a
minimum, and I wouldn't be surprised if they get over that.
Now. What is the IU defense going to
do to Michigan? Michigan runs.
We know that's what they're going to do.
And IU has what, the 6th ranked rushing defense in the country,
6:00 or 8:00 somewhere around there.
I know it's top ten and that a lot of that's because they're
blowing teams out. So Michigan may be able to run,
but I don't think they're going to be able to control the ball
enough to make that effective and work because I think we're
going to be able to score more than that.
So either way, I don't see them topping out anything over 17
points because they've only done that, you know, one over the
last five games. And so I don't expect them to do
that. They do have a little bit of a
quarterback situation figured out at this point because they
were kind of doing a carousel thing.
And then Jack Tuttle retires and and so the new guys in there.
But I think his career high for passing yards in the game is
like 132 yards and he was applauded for having such a
great numbers in that game by the Michigan faithful.
So as long as our offense can do its thing and the old line
continues to do what they're doing, I don't see any reason
why we don't win by two touchdowns.
I hate this hook, but I do think that we probably win by 17.
Also of note, things working in IU's favor, revenge factors.
All right, Signeti's already called out Michigan, so he's
kind of got his ass on the line. So they better come out to play,
right? Secondly, do you remember the
score was of last year's IU Michigan game?
I don't. 52 to 7, Donovan McAuley threw the first
touchdown pass of the game on IU, went up 7, nothing on a
trick play. And then, yeah, the route was
the route was on after that. So I wouldn't be surprised to
see a similar, like a reverse situation of that because we
kind of need those style points because you can see we're
getting screwed. I mean, there's zero reason Penn
State should be ahead of IU in any ranking whatsoever by any
person who has a functioning brain, so we apparently have to
make it so obvious that even people who aren't smart enough
to blink can. Figure it out.
Agree with all that. I also think our offense could
score 40 points, but I think we're going to get a maybe a
score or two on defense because as we talked about in the last
Crimson cast, you're seeing more and more teams understand that
they have to start pushing harder and harder on offense and
Michigan's going to have to throw the ball because they want
to keep up with us. You have to throw it and you're
seeing them team start to get interceptions because they're
pressing because they know if they don't score every time.
Once Indiana starts doing the touchdown, touchdown, field goal
touchdown, touchdown, they they can't just on 1/3 and three, if
they drop back and they don't see anything, they can't just
throw it out of bounds. They got to do something or they
know they're going to be down 14 more points.
And one thing IU has had trouble with this year is effective
tight ends. A few few other teams have had a
lot of luck going to their tight ends and Michigan has a really
good one. What's his name?
Cortland Loveland or something like that.
He's he's got a real like like Yacht Club type name like
Cortland Loveland, you know, something like that.
So he's really good and he, you know, may have some success, but
they don't have a lot. They do have some good
individual players, though, scattered throughout their team
and their best cornerback has been out the last two games.
Whether he comes back or not, that would be a big deal.
But essentially what that's going to do is maybe shut down
Sarot. And so, you know, but that still
leaves. Well, then you got to deal with
Cooper and Price and Rice and you know, and so and Cross and
so, you know, pick your poison. Agreed.
All right. Last week, as you mentioned
earlier, UCLA screwed us on the hot streak.
But James, you got four more weeks, three more IU games.
Yeah. It's pretty simple.
I win. Google me.
We got the Kurt Cignetti hot streak here coming.
We're starting over again. Give us the Indiana line you
like and how we're going to make it a two team parlay this week.
All right. We're not going to sweat a whole
lot here. We're going to take IU minus 6
1/2, so that's an alternate line you can take.
And then we're going to take Ohio State.
Oh, James got so excited we lost his camera.
I'm going to talk for a second kill some time while James
figures this out. Sorry James, I'm taking your hot
streak. So James's hot streak is
Indiana. You're taking the alt line at -6
1/2 and then he likes the over on the Purdue Ohio State game at
41 1/2. So that's what you're going to
roll with. The who's your hot streak?
Indiana go alt line -6 1/2 and then the over under on the
Purdue game take the over at 41 1/2.
So there's your who's your hot streak.
That's your Crimson cash. James is totally dropped off.
So it's just me and nobody wants to hear me half sick talk for a
while. Probably don't want to hear me
100% healthy talking. Oh, we got James back.
I killed just enough time right when I was about to end the
podcast. You hop back in.
What's up, man? Yeah, my idiot wife was calling
in and I thought I had like the, you know, like thing.
I'm doing this on my phone because I don't have a laptop
and it's a whole thing. So IU minus 6 1/2 Ohio State
over 41 1/2 team total and you combine those two together at
you're getting plus one O 7 odds.
So I think that's a a good bet there.
I think you'll feel safe on both of those things.
I like it. I, I will be betting it right
now and we're going to get back to some winning some money and
I, I feel good for the Hoosiers continuing to cover their spread
this week. I had one last factoid to give
you that. I heard this week that that was
really interesting. Do you know, I'll just ask you
coming into this year, do you know the highest revenue ever
brought in for concessions for one game at Memorial Stadium?
No, I do not. $450,000 was the most revenue ever brought in for
concession. I don't, I don't know what game
or I didn't ask what game. So just keep that as a fact.
In both the Nebraska and Washington games this year, each
game brought in $800,000 in revenue from concessions alone.
I'd be curious to know if that 450,000 was pre beer sales or
post beer sales. I mean beer sales are fairly new
to Memorial Stadium too. So they are, but I'm not sure
they're a $350,000 different. It's it.
It's just a. It's another example of how.
Do you like drinking? I know, yeah.
Who's your name to logger it it is and by the way, if that's all
who's your game day logger and we have anything to do with that
like we upland. Let's let's up the ante here
baby. I need a little bit more
cashola. You know I should play for that.
You know who I'm sending out there upland?
I'm sending out my boys to come get more cash out of you.
No, it's a it just shows how important this signeti is for
Indiana football and how important it is to have Memorial
Stadium packed. It's just it's absurd numbers,
the amount of money that's going to be brought in and what
Indiana's going to be able to do with that with these kind of
games. We're going to have, and we're
going to have it again this weekend, a stadium full of IU
fans. Oh, and I'm going to give a
shout out to the stadium Hot Dogs because they're really easy
to get there in those kiosks. Just go up, you pick them up
man. Then Little Bitches is good so
highly recommend them. All right, James, I will.
I'll see you this weekend. I hope everyone out there, you
you guys are out there this weekend.
You know where James is going to be.
We have our tailgate. Just me and my family.
It's a small little thing, but we are a lot like 9.
We're right by the outdoor, outdoor practice field.
Just walking up to the stadium. There's a little flags there.
We're right there on row 44, right on the edge.
Come by, say hi. Just say we heard the pod and
wave to my kids, they'll be chalking on the ground and look
forward to a great weekend and a win against Michigan.
We do this and it's it's pretty much all laid out in front of
us. We we get this one done.
I feel like the College Football Playoff is real because at that
point you lose to Ohio State, you beat Purdue.
Those are both things that could easily happen.
You should be in. So it's a big weekend.
I'm very much looking forward to it and looking forward to
getting down there and enjoying the game.
Be in Michigan doesn't happen every year, buddy.
No it doesn't and let's enjoy it and let's let's stomp them.
Let's do it. All right, man.
Well, James, thank you for joining us as always and
everybody out there for listening.
Thank you for listening. Hope you make some money this
weekend for Scott. I mean I am Scott for Crimson
Cash signing off post time.