04 - Bob Thornbladh 102326

One of the things I like to do, Jamie, and, you know, you remember one of the highlights when you played for Coach Sandberg, when I coached for him, every Monday he'd come in and he'd review what's going on in the conference, where we stood, what we had to do.

and what the standings look like.

Now, as we look at the conference, the aforementioned UCLA Bruins, Larry Lee School, are in great shape.

They're 6-0, but they're 4-0.

The reserve quarterback came and played well, and they won a big game.

So they play Minnesota away.

And then they play us away late in the year.

So that might be difficult for them because it'll be cold in November when they come to see us.

But they, then they have SC

and

Larry can talk about that game when I'm done.

That's Michigan, Ohio State out there.

So they're really in, they're in great shape in the conference.

It was always our express goal and intent to win the Big Ten Conference.

We knew if we could win the Big Ten Conference and everything would take care of itself after that.

So we didn't talk about national championships ever.

We talked about winning the conference.

That was first things first.

And to do that was an ambitious goal.

Ohio State is also undefeated in the conference, but they lost their quarterback, and it appears they might lose him for the season.

And that's a devastating loss.

They have a bye this week, but it comes at an opportunity.

You know, just like our bye came at a good time for us.

USC is really formidable offense.

And they have a lot of athletes right now.