Follow The Money | July 28, 2026 | Hour 2

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**Mitch Moss** (1:11)
Thanks for watching the program as always on YouTube TV, listening on SiriusXM channel 158, iHeartRadio, TuneIn Radio, or any of our great affiliates across the country. Mitch Moss along with Dustin Swedelson. In this week for Polly Howard, we're live downtown Vegas, Circa, Resort and Casino and we begin this hour talking college football. Big 10 media days underway now this week. It's their turn. They've won three straight national titles.
We go to the progressive guest line for more on the conference is Ralph Russo, joins the program, has covered the support for many, many years senior sports writer now for the athletic. Ralph, thanks so much for the time today. How are you?

**Ralph Russo** (1:48)
Very welcome. Yeah, you can see football around the corner. It doesn't quite feel like football in most of the country, but you can smell it and you can feel it. We're getting close there, guys.

**Mitch Moss** (1:59)
No doubt. 115 degrees out here again today in Vegas. Not exactly football weather, but we'll get there sooner than later. We talked in the first hour, Ralph, are here at the network, are coming out with a college football betting guide this week.
I feel like I am one of the lone rangers, as I said, on Indiana again this year. This might be a little cap, they're going to be, I think, superb yet again. I'm picking them to win the Big 10 Where are you at at the very top between that team, obviously, Oregon and Ohio State?

**Ralph Russo** (2:29)
It feels like it's Oregon's turn. I don't know what that necessarily means. You don't get to draw turns. I don't think anybody thought it was Indiana's turn last year, even though they came off to a pretty amazing season in 2024
It is very possible we might be underselling the national champions again here.
Listen, I do understand the feeling of Josh Hoover is a good player. Is he going to be as good as Fernando Mendoza? If he's not, okay, there's a little regression there.
I think they did an even better job in the portal this year in terms of bringing in, a good example is in Nick Marsh from Michigan State, who's a pretty high quality player. Maybe not necessarily the JMU guys and some of the G6 guys that they've been relying on before, where they are doing a little bit more of identify and develop. So right, you're bringing in a slightly higher level of talent. It's also hard not to look at a team that went 16-0 last year. Everything breaks your way magical season and not think again, some regression is coming. So again, I'm leaning more towards it's Oregon's year. It's hard to believe Ohio State has not won the Big Ten since 2020 That sounds crazy. But also in this world, not winning the Big Ten is not that maybe that big of a deal, right? Ohio State's won a national championship more recently than it won the Big Ten.

**Pauly Howard** (4:08)
You mentioned Oregon there and I'm a big Oregon guy. I love Dan Lanning. Dante Moore is back for another year. He didn't want to be in New York Jets, so he gets to be a duck one more time. Get some help at Receiver with Evan Stewart being healthy. Some other guys like to carry more returning. But the defense, I feel like the defense has so many guys back that you kind of know what you're getting the production from.
Why should people believe that Oregon, in a big game in the playoffs, things will go differently for them this time around?

**Ralph Russo** (4:35)
Yeah, it's so interesting. We were just talking about this as a staff.