Doug Lesmerises

All right, let's finish up with this.

We'll start back with Audrey again.

Pick a player.

Pick one player.

Who's going to be really important to how this Big Ten season unfolds in 2026, Audrey?

Matt, what's your answer?

Interesting.

Interesting.

Matt, as you noted, like it is it is it is it's actually a pretty interesting crop of veteran returning quarterbacks across college football.

But the Big Ten certainly qualifies in there.

There's like a lot of answers.

There's like there's not a ton of Big Ten top Big Ten programs that are sort of searching for their quarterback.

I'm going to wind up saying two guys, but I'll start with something that we've talked about a lot already, which is USC and USC schedule, especially in the middle of the year.

Jaden Maiava quarterback for USC is that it threw for 285 yards per game last year.

That was sixth in the country.

He's the number one power for returner at his own school.

in terms of quarterback yardage, right?

Like he was the most productive quarterback and you look at Audrey, kind of what you were saying, not only is it what you might do, but what you might do to other teams, they have like a kind of easy September, but at the end, starting with Oregon, this is USC's middle six, Oregon, Washington at Penn state off at Wisconsin, Ohio state off at Indiana.

And so you think about, you're playing, like, again, talk about this USC schedule.

They're playing Oregon, Ohio State, Indiana, the top three playoff contenders in the Big Ten.