Welcome to a new episode of Land-Grant Podcast Network’s I-80 Football Show. On this show, we travel down I-80 to talk all things Big Ten Football. This is the only Big Ten Podcast that’ll cover all 18 teams. After every week of action, we will catch you up on all the conference’s games and look ahead at the matchups, storylines, and players you should be paying attention to for the next week. My name is Jordan Williams, and I am joined by my co-host Dante Morgan.

We’re back to talk bowl games and the college football playoffs but we have to acknowledge a bit of big news. Michael Vick has been named the head coach at Norfolk State, an HBCU in Virginia. Vick continues the trend of very popular college football and NFL players landing coaching gigs. In other news, millionaire coaches continue to complain about the college football calendar without offering solutions so Jordan presents his ideal college football calendar that would fix the December logjam. In this calendar, the season would end on New Year’s Day, just as the football gods intended. 

The Big Ten’s bowl schedule is pretty spread out with only Rutgers playing in a bowl game this week. Rutgers (7-5) takes on Kansas State (8-4) on December 26th. Can the Scarlet Knights complete their season by winning eight games for the first time since 2014? It won’t be an easy win but with three weeks to prepare and having already played tougher Big Ten opponents we think Rutgers is going to pull off a win to cap a great season. 

The College Football Playoff starts this weekend and the guys give detailed breakdowns of the three games involving Big Ten teams. With four teams in the playoffs including no. one Oregon, the Big Ten is the betting favorite to win the national championship but can they go 3-0 in their first-round games? Indiana is not getting enough respect as it travels down the road to play Notre Dame. The Hoosiers can win that game and it shouldn't be a surprise. Many people haven’t watched SMU play and believe Penn State will walk all over them, we disagree but if Penn State can play like they did in the Big Ten Championship Game against Oregon they’ll come out on top. Ohio State has some of the worst vibes in the country but they are still one of the best teams in the playoffs. Ohio State can win this game and should, the only question remaining is can Ryan Day get out of his team's way and set them up for success? 

In his weekly pitstop, Jordan discusses the Yankees signing Max Fried and trading for Devin Williams and Cody Bellinger. It doesn’t make up for losing Juan Soto but the Yankees aren’t laying down this off-season. 

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