What are you making of this game?

Well, first of all, you gotta give Barry Odom a lot of credit for what he's done with the, the Purdue program, okay? We saw how he turned the UNLV program around here in Vegas for us, and then he went off to greener pastures.

Uh, and the first year was bad, but year two you see the improvement.

But I've gotta point out the situation with Purdue.

Um, they've won two in a row.

They're three and three on the season, but if you look at those last two wins, both of them were underdog wins, um, over Illinois and Minnesota.

But you know me, I'm a situational guy.

What, what are we doing? Why, why, why is this-

Talk to me about it.

Yeah, I do.

And this is one of those spots where everybody automatically is going to look at Indianapolis coming back home, laying that touchdown, and they're going to say, hey, this is easy.

You look at Tennessee, they've looked bad.

There's no question about that.

They're a winless team.

And Indianapolis is coming off of they played back to back road games.

Is this just like the perfect storm of like opposite feelings for both these teams? You're going to take the one and a half with the Cowboys on the road.

So what do we do with this game?

Yeah.

And this is one where, you know, both teams, if you wanna look at it from a situational standpoint, I could say are in, you know, negative spots.

Um, you got North Carolina, they're coming off their last two games.

Now, they did have a week in between, uh, the Clemson and Notre Dame game, but those were two big games for North Carolina.

And North Carolina as a 21-point, you know, underdog played Notre Dame, you know, tough.

They only lost by 11 points.

Is that coming out tonight?

Are you like me, Marco, where when you, when you latch onto a team you go, "God, that's good value," and then you hear everyone else is on it, you get a little bit nervous? I, I'm normally like that, but in this case with the Bengals, I'm all the way in and I don't care.

Yeah, uh, Cincinnati is, uh, has become the trendy pick and, uh, it's...

Why not? I, I mean, this team, you look at what they've done over the last several years.

Uh, the big if, and that's the problem when you take, uh, Cincinnati, is we need to keep Joe Burrow, you know, healthy.

Now, for me to pick the Cincinnati Bengals, um, to win the AFC North, you know, I really gotta like them, 'cause you know I'm a huge Pittsburgh Steeler fan, uh, being from, you know, Pittsburgh originally.

Uh, you know, I bleed black and gold, but when it comes to money, I like green better, and I think that Cincinnati at plus 165 to win the division and Cincinnati over 10 wins are plays that, you know, I just, I had to make.

Remember, this was a Super Bowl team in 2021, Dustin.

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