Inside The Pylon: A Midwest College Football Podcast

Happy June! We are one month closer to the season, which means we are one month closer to preview content, which means it's time to start thinking about the things that matter most: beating the team you hate.

Ohio State/Michigan gets its flowers as the best rivalry in the sport, but what about the other games that get our juices flowing? In this episode, Ryan and Clinton rank their top-5 Big Ten rivalries outside of The Game.

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Ryan and Clinton are back, and and with preview season coming down the pipe, they take a look at post-spring win total projections for each Big Ten team, and decide whether they would take the over or the under on that specific number.

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Ryan and Clinton are back, and they are looking ahead to the games of the season. Each co-host ranks his top-five most anticipated matchups in the midwest of the upcoming 2026 college football season. No specific criteria was employed, and each co-host was given free reigns to determine what was most important to them when selecting their games. Did your team have a contest make the cut? Tune in to find out!

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Who loves rankings? You love rankings, and the guys obliged you with this week's episode. Ryan and Clinton go, 1-18, their own personal rankings of the projected starting runnings backs in the Big Ten heading into 2026. Do you agree? Did one of the guys make you mad with their idiotic list? Let us know!

Join us on our Youtube channel live for shows. Spring time will feature shows Monday live at 9 pm est on Youtube until fall previews begin in July, with the episode dropping in your podcast feed the following morning. Follow us on Twitter to get notified when we are going live and to interact with the show.

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It's the dog days of summer, officially. Spring ball has concluded, May is here, and we are three months away from preseason camps kicking off. You know what that means: it's time to concoct dumb scenarios that probably aren't going to happen, and decide which is more likely to come to fruition.

Ryan and Clinton play a version of "This or That?" Both co-hosts have formulated a handful of hypothetical situations, and pairing two against each other, they decide which of the two unlikely outcomes is more likely to come to fruition during the 26-27 college football season. Get your popcorn and undoubtedly get mad, and see what nonsense the guys have come up with.

Join us on our Youtube channel live for shows. Spring time will feature shows Monday live at 9 pm est on Youtube until fall previews begin in July, with the episode dropping in your podcast feed the following morning. Follow us on Twitter to get notified when we are going live and to interact with the show.

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It's draft season! And to honor the occasion Ryan and Clinton are drafting Big Ten positions groups ... but with a twist.

In what will be a season-long game, each co-host will draft a team in which each pick is an entire position group (QB, RB, WR/TE, OL, D, ST). To make things more interesting, each position group has been assigned a hypothetical dollar value, ranging between $1 and $5, and each team will have a salary cap of $18. Spend big on proven productions? Or look for bargains and build the deepest overall team? What will each of our co-hosts choose in a game that will be fun to track as the season progresses.

Tier prices listed below:

Tiers:

QB

$5 OSU, Oregon

$4 Indiana, USC, Washington

$3 Michigan, UCLA, Penn St, Maryland

$2 Nebraska, Illinois, Michigan St, Northwestern, Minnesota, Wisconsin

$1 Iowa, Rutgers, Purdue

RB

$5 Michigan, Oregon, USC

$4 OSU, Indiana

$3 Michigan St, Iowa, Rutgers, Minnesota, Northwestern, UCLA, Penn St, Illinois

$2 Nebraska, Wisconsin, Washington

$1 Purdue, Maryland

WR/TE

$5 OSU, Oregon, Indiana

$4

$3 Washington, Michigan, Northwestern, Rutgers, USC, Nebraska

$2 Michigan St, Minnesota, UCLA, Iowa, Penn St, Illinois

$1 Purdue, Maryland, Wisconsin

OL

$5 USC, Indiana

$4 Washington, OSU, Iowa, Oregon

$3 Michigan, Penn St, Nebraska, Illinois

$2 Northwestern, Michigan St, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Maryland

$1 Purdue, UCLA, Rutgers

D

$5 Oregon, Indiana

$4 OSU, Michigan, Iowa

$3 Minnesota, Washington, Nebraska, Penn St,

$2 Northwestern, USC, Illinois, Michigan St, UCLA, Wisconsin

$1 Rutgers, Purdue, Maryland

ST

$5 Purdue, psu, iowa

$4 iu, nw, ill

$3 Maryland, Oregon, osu

$2 Rutgers, Nebraska, ucla, Washington

$1 wisc, usc, msu, Michigan, minn

Join us on our Youtube channel live for shows. Spring time will feature shows Monday live at 9 pm est on Youtube until fall previews begin in July, with the episode dropping in your podcast feed the following morning. Follow us on Twitter to get notified when we are going live and to interact with the show.

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Ryan and Clinton are back on the weekly grind with ranking shows and other various musings. This week, the guys talk top defenses in the Big Ten and each ranks their top five. Who came out on top? And what went into each of their rankings?

Join us on our Youtube channel live for shows. Spring time will feature shows Monday live at 9 pm est on Youtube until fall previews begin in July, with the episode dropping in your podcast feed the following morning. Follow us on Twitter to get notified when we are going live and to interact with the show.

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Ryan and Clinton are back on the weekly grind with ranking shows and other various musings. This week, the guys talk top offenses in the Big Ten and each ranks their top five. Who came out on top? And what went into each of their rankings?

Join us on our Youtube channel live for shows. Spring time will feature shows Monday live at 9 pm est on Youtube until fall previews begin in July, with the episode dropping in your podcast feed the following morning. Follow us on Twitter to get notified when we are going live and to interact with the show.

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Spring spotlights are over and we are back to once-weekly programming with rankings, debates, and other fun discussions to fill your time and preoccupy your offseason blues.

Tonight, Ryan and Clinton discuss their preseason top-5 quarterbacks in the Big Ten conference. Who are the names they are looking at? Are they looking at the same group of players? How do they feel about the position at large in the conference this year?

Join us on our Youtube channel live for shows. Spring time will feature shows Monday and Thursday live at 9 pm est until the conclusion of spring ball, with the episode dropping in your podcast feed the following morning. Follow us on Twitter to get notified when we are going live and to interact with the show.

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Ryan and Clinton continue to roll through Big Ten spring spotlights, talking Wisconsin.

After another disappointing year, the Badgers retained head coach Luke Fickell with a promise to invest more heavily in the roster. Mission accomplished -- somewhat -- with 33 incoming transfers. Much of the work was done on the defensive side of the ball. The Badges could be looking at four transfers starting in the secondary when they take on Notre Dame to begin the season, with the goal of helping bolster a pass defense that finished 62nd in yards per game against last season. The rush defense was better, but seven DL transfers come in to help offset front seven losses to the NFL and portal.

On offense, QB Colton Joseph is the latest portal add for Wisconsin and he will look to avoid the injury plague that befuddled his previous three predecessors. Joseph, from Old Dominion, was a competent passer last season -- 59.6% completion, 2,624 yards with 21 TDs to 10 INTs. But he makes plays in the running game, finishing last season with 1,007 yards and 13 TDs on the ground. Can he bring forth that running threat to the Big Ten and add another dimension to this Wisconsin offense?

He will need help, and for better or worse the Badgers will see a makeover at the skill positions in 2026. Their top four receivers from last year have departed -- they bring in three portal adds at WR with varying levels of production at varying levels of competition. Leading rusher Darrion Dupree returns, though with only 363 yards he is hardly entrenched as a starter. The Badgers also add three RBs from the portal, including 750-yard rusher Abu Sama from Iowa State. Can any of the portal adds -- or the returning players -- step up to be a go-to guy for this offense?

Join us on our Youtube channel live for shows. Spring time will feature shows Monday and Thursday live at 9 pm est until the conclusion of spring ball, with the episode dropping in your podcast feed the following morning. Follow us on Twitter to get notified when we are going live and to interact with the show.

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