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Ohio State 14, Texas 7: What We Learned From The Buckeyes' Win Over No. 1 · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Sunday August thirty. First,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio pretty darn good right now. Buckey's knock off the
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  Speaker 1: number one team in the nation, the Texas Longhorns fourteen
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  Speaker 1: to seven, not the most action packed games for stretches,
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  Speaker 1: but joined by Kevin neunibucka huddle dot com. Kevin, I
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  Speaker 1: think that this in terms of defensive performances, this rank's
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  Speaker 1: pretty high for me in terms of you came into
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  Speaker 1: the game thinking, what are you really going to hack you?
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  Speaker 1: You got a new coordinator, you got eight new starters
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  Speaker 1: on defense. That was a pretty high level outcome to
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  Speaker 1: get for all those new faces.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I think there was a lot of concern about
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  Speaker 3: no gim knowles. Now what map Patricia guy, He's pretty good.
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  Speaker 3: The people who were like, well I remember him in
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  Speaker 3: Detroit and it was just horrible. Well, you know, pump,
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  Speaker 3: you know, pump the brakes a little bit. An interesting factoid,
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  Speaker 3: Texas the last time it was held scoreless and a
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  Speaker 3: half was twenty fifteen against Iowa State.
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  Speaker 2: Wow.
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  Speaker 3: They ended up being shut out by game twenty four
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  Speaker 3: and nothing. Ohio State came within a couple minutes of
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  Speaker 3: pitching the shutout. Was unable to do it. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: it just was an incredible performance. I mean because so
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  Speaker 3: many you know, a lot of the players that were
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  Speaker 3: part of the twenty four team were in attendance. You know,
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  Speaker 3: Jack Sawyer, JT. Toe, Moloow, guys like Cody Simon. I
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  Speaker 3: saw all of them on the sideline are coming down
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  Speaker 3: to the field, but none of them had eligibility left,
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  Speaker 3: none of them were playing. It was a new set
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  Speaker 3: of guys and they were able to do something that
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  Speaker 3: you know, we don't see that often.
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  Speaker 1: No, you don't see a team with a quarterback as
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  Speaker 1: hyped as Arch Manning and a coach who's as respected
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  Speaker 1: as an offensive mind as Steve Sarkisian and the number
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  Speaker 1: one team in the country. I mean, this is it's
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  Speaker 1: week one, and we'll find out a lot more about
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  Speaker 1: all these teams a little later on. But to come
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  Speaker 1: at that, you know, this is this is not shutting
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  Speaker 1: out Akron for fifty seven minutes or fifty six minutes,
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  Speaker 1: whatever it was. This is not shutting out Miami of
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  Speaker 1: Ohio or Grambling. This is a This is a legitimate
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  Speaker 1: team with some very highly recruited players and a coach
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  Speaker 1: who's got a reputation for knowing what he's doing. So
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  Speaker 1: when you look at the numbers, it they're really impressive.
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  Speaker 1: And I start at the line of scrimmage where there
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  Speaker 1: was all off season. We spent the whole off season
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  Speaker 1: talking about, boy, the injury of the defense line, and
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  Speaker 1: the coaching staff talked about that very openly. Is the
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  Speaker 1: depth there is a little bit of a concern. You
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  Speaker 1: look at how well they held up. I mean Texas
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  Speaker 1: was Texas was able to run the ball to a
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  Speaker 1: certain degree, but not super consistently, and arch Manning had time,
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  Speaker 1: but he didn't have wide open running lines. It felt
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  Speaker 1: like the defensive line did a pretty solid job overall.
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  Speaker 3: And we talked so much in preparation of Texas about
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  Speaker 3: Sark and his scripting of the first fifteen plays or whatever,
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  Speaker 3: and they did move the ball, they did pick up
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  Speaker 3: a couple of first downs, and then it stopped and
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  Speaker 3: that's how they they turned got forced a turnover on downs,
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  Speaker 3: and course Ohio State then turned the favor and turned
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  Speaker 3: it over on downs. But I think that once Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State was able to get that stop on that first drive,
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  Speaker 3: I was like, hey, you know, they might be onto something.
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  Speaker 3: I did I expect Texas to score seven points. No.
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  Speaker 3: My prediction though was twenty one seventeen in the game,
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  Speaker 3: So I was, you know, I still was all over
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  Speaker 3: the under, or I would have if I would have
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  Speaker 3: bet it, which I didn't. But a game with very
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  Speaker 3: few drives, I mean, you know, you had, you know,
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  Speaker 3: some prolonged drives in terms of time and possession, but
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  Speaker 3: you know, really a masterful plan, and you know, I
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  Speaker 3: think it shows what this team is capable of. They're
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  Speaker 3: not going to have to go out and necessarily do
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  Speaker 3: this against their other two non conference opponents, even though
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  Speaker 3: Ohio put up what it was, thirty one points against Rutgers.
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  Speaker 3: They're not going to have to do it against many
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  Speaker 3: of the Big Ten opponents on the schedule. But if
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  Speaker 3: if this becomes SOP. If this becomes standard operating procedure
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  Speaker 3: this year, you know the offense is going to catch
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  Speaker 3: up at some point, and you know we're looking at
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  Speaker 3: what could be a pretty special season.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And I think what I look at was they had.
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  Speaker 1: This was not just absolutely locked them down. This was
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  Speaker 1: you made the plays you needed to make the plays.
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  Speaker 1: Four times they stopped Texas on fourth down. First drive
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  Speaker 1: thirty three yards stopped on down. Second drive, three plays, punt,
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  Speaker 1: then the third drive, three plays punt, fourth play, eight plays,
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  Speaker 1: twenty one yards punt, then three plays eight yards punt,
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  Speaker 1: then fifteen plays seventy yards. They hit all the way
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  Speaker 1: down to the one in Ohio state stuff, So go
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  Speaker 1: line stand. I would advise Texas to stop getting the ohiostate.
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  Speaker 1: One bad thing seems to happen after that for them,
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  Speaker 1: But the drive after that three plays and interception, another one,
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  Speaker 1: thirteen plays seventy six yards.
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  Speaker 2: They get all the way down to the Ohise date.
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  Speaker 2: Nine drive ends on downs.
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  Speaker 1: They finally score a touchdown with three twenty eight left
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  Speaker 1: in the game, get the ball back one more time
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  Speaker 1: after that, but end up six plays thirty eight yards,
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  Speaker 1: drive ends on downs.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of near midfield.
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  Speaker 1: The defense was not this was not the most shut
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  Speaker 1: down they have ever had and held an opponent. You know,
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  Speaker 1: this is not the single greatest defense performs in Ohio
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  Speaker 1: state history. But it was just really consistent. It wasn't
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  Speaker 1: this one guy made you know, it wasn't the Caleb
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  Speaker 1: Downs game. It was just when they needed to play
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  Speaker 1: from the interior the defensive line of the goal line,
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  Speaker 1: they got it. When they needed Davis Snagunosen to cover
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  Speaker 1: a receiver and have good coverage but not too good
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  Speaker 1: on fourth down in the end zone, they got it.
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  Speaker 1: It just they got what they needed from a lot
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  Speaker 1: of guys who you know, a lot you know, Ignosen's
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  Speaker 1: returning starter, but there were a lot of guys out
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  Speaker 1: there making their first starts.
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  Speaker 3: Right, And that's that's the thing, because you only get three,
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  Speaker 3: four or five years and you're probably I mean, if
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  Speaker 3: you're if you're starting, you're not you're not a four
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  Speaker 3: year starter or five year starter. J T. Barrett. You know,
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  Speaker 3: it was kind of the exception to the rule. And
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  Speaker 3: that's not you know, that's not how modern football has
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  Speaker 3: played these days. So you know, you need these young
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  Speaker 3: pups to step up and be able to bite and
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  Speaker 3: you know, and and these Ohio State defenders were able
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  Speaker 3: to do it, and I just felt that it was
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  Speaker 3: a really solid defensive plan. And you know, I know
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  Speaker 3: you're going to be doing some pieces with Ross Fulton
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  Speaker 3: moving forward, and I'm really looking forward to watching those,
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  Speaker 3: and you can of course see those here at YouTube
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  Speaker 3: dot com slash Buckey huddle, uh, you know of what
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  Speaker 3: happened there, and I and I assume that Michael Pettitt
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  Speaker 3: will probably do some defensively speaking pieces which I help
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  Speaker 3: will put together, you know, a lot, you know, a
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  Speaker 3: lot to go through.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Uh. And normally start on the offensive side of ball
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  Speaker 1: for Ohio State because that's just sort of how these
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  Speaker 1: shows are normally structured, and that's whatever one wants to
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  Speaker 1: talk about. But I feel like the conversation about the
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  Speaker 1: offense starts with the defense, because I think that they
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  Speaker 1: looked at how the defense was playing and thought, we
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  Speaker 1: don't need to do anything too crazy until Texas shows
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  Speaker 1: they can score. Ohio State was up seven to nothing
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  Speaker 1: in the first half righted early in the second quarter,
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  Speaker 1: and they didn't have to take any crazy chances. They
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  Speaker 1: scored on a long pass from Julian Say in to
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  Speaker 1: Carnell tape. But that was really about the only time
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  Speaker 1: they took a real downfield shot. It was a very
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  Speaker 1: sort of you know not it was a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a safe game plan. It felt like that was
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  Speaker 1: maybe as much predicated on just don't lose the game
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  Speaker 1: on offense, because we're probably not going to lose the
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  Speaker 1: game on defense.
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  Speaker 3: Their next longest play offensive play was sixteen yards of
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  Speaker 3: reception to Jeremiah Smith. And of course, you know, just
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  Speaker 3: the way things happened, I was on my way down
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  Speaker 3: from this postgame room down to the field when the
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  Speaker 3: Carnell tape touch down happened. So I saw a replay
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  Speaker 3: on one of the video monitors. I'm looking forward to
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  Speaker 3: seeing that after we're done and I can get home
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  Speaker 3: and see all of that. But yeah, you Ohio State
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  Speaker 3: was not playing from behind. Ohio State was not playing desperate.
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  Speaker 3: They was able to go out and do what needed
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  Speaker 3: to do. Now Texas had a chance, and you know,
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  Speaker 3: in theory to tie it up at fourteen, what happens
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  Speaker 3: at that point, You've you've sat there and you've not
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  Speaker 3: really had your foot on the accelerator for almost the
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  Speaker 3: entirety of the game. How do you you know, how
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  Speaker 3: do you find second gear, third gear, fourth gear, fifth
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  Speaker 3: gear at that point, so you know you're you're you're
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  Speaker 3: playing conservatively. I'm sure they had some more you know,
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  Speaker 3: ambitious play calls, but they didn't need to they didn't
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  Speaker 3: need to use them.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it was this was a very managed game plan
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  Speaker 2: for Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: It felt like where, you know, if you did have
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  Speaker 1: to sort of take the offense out back out of
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  Speaker 1: the bubble wrap, that would have certainly been a challenge
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  Speaker 1: late in that late in that game, but it did
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  Speaker 1: not come to that for Ohio State. The run game,
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  Speaker 1: they had moments where you thought, oh, they found something,
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  Speaker 1: but it was the long run of the day was
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  Speaker 1: eight yards and C. J. Donald's nineteen carries sixty seven yards.
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  Speaker 1: James People's ten carries twenty yards. This is one where
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  Speaker 1: I have a terrible view for this down on the field,
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  Speaker 1: So I have no sense for why that was like
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  Speaker 1: this was do you have any feel for was this
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  Speaker 1: you're just going up against good defense and you're having
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  Speaker 1: a trouble you know, creating holes or was there something
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  Speaker 1: else at play?
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  Speaker 2: From your vantage point?
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  Speaker 3: There were a couple of times they missed some cutback
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  Speaker 3: lanes and things like that. But you're going against Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State recruits against Texas for a lot of these kids.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, a lot of these kids are from Texas
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  Speaker 3: and it's kind of pretty obvious that they're going to
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  Speaker 3: go to the University of Texas. But you know, you're
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  Speaker 3: going against really good talent. I think though, that if
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  Speaker 3: we were able to be a fly on the wall
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  Speaker 3: of Carlos Loughlin's room, he probably will give some tough
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  Speaker 3: love about some missed opportunities out there. They did leave
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  Speaker 3: some yardage, but you know, hats off, Cowboy, hats off
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  Speaker 3: to Texas. You know, they they played well, they just
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  Speaker 3: didn't play a good enough game to beat Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: And I think that will kind of lean lean us
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  Speaker 1: towards our final point, which is the play of the quarterbacks,
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  Speaker 1: who both played okay but not phenomenally. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: Julian Sane played well enough, and the difference between well
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  Speaker 1: enough and not well enough is that his team won.
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  Speaker 2: So that's about it.
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  Speaker 1: Julian Sane thirteen for twenty one hundred and twenty six yards,
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  Speaker 1: a touchdown, no picks. He did have several passes dropped,
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  Speaker 1: which would have probably bump bumped his numbers up a
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  Speaker 1: little bit. Arch Manning seventeen for thirty FO one hundred
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  Speaker 1: and seventy yards, one touchdown, one pick.
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  Speaker 2: I look at both of these quarterbacks.
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  Speaker 1: And I think these two teams are very likely to
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  Speaker 1: play each other again later in the season, and when
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  Speaker 1: they do, I suspect that both of these quarterbacks are
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  Speaker 1: probably going to look a lot different than they did
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  Speaker 1: in Game one, and you're probably going to have a
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  Speaker 1: different type of game you had in Game one.
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  Speaker 3: I mean things change. I mean, obviously, you know, your
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  Speaker 3: offensive line solidifies, your receivers get a little bit more comfortable.
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  Speaker 3: I think certainly when you play a team a second time,
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  Speaker 3: there's already been kind of the feeling out process. I
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  Speaker 3: think that you're able to just swing a little freer
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  Speaker 3: at that point. It's kind of like when a pitcher
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  Speaker 3: you want to try and get a starting pitcher in
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  Speaker 3: baseball out after you've seen them twice, because that third time,
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  Speaker 3: batting averages go up and everything else. I think that
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  Speaker 3: it's going to be a little bit more like that.
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  Speaker 3: I would expect a much higher game, a higher scoring game.
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying that I'm necessarily going to hit the
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  Speaker 3: over on that one because I don't know what it
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  Speaker 3: would be. But you know it's not going to be
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  Speaker 3: twenty one total points.
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  Speaker 1: No, certainly not. And you know it's not a guarantee
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  Speaker 1: that they'll they'll play again. But we walked out of
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  Speaker 1: Austin Stadium last October saying, I bet.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see these two two teams play again.
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  Speaker 1: And I just I'm going to walk out of Ohio
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  Speaker 1: Stadium tonight thinking, I bet we're going to see these
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  Speaker 1: two teams play again.
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  Speaker 2: So we'll find that if I'm right.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of football to go but between here
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  Speaker 1: and there, but definitely a huge win for the Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State Buckeyes knocking off number one Texas. Ohio State will
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  Speaker 1: likely be the new number one team in the nation
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  Speaker 1: when the new polls come out. But there is a
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  Speaker 1: whole lot more football to enjoy this weekend. Get a
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  Speaker 1: couple of big games on Sunday, another one on Monday.
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  Speaker 1: Love a good Labor Day weekend.
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  Speaker 2: Full of college football. Good to have, Good to have
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  Speaker 2: college football back in our lives. I missed you so much,
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  Speaker 2: I know, and we had Oh you went to sport.
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  Speaker 3: Well, you know I miss you too.
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  Speaker 2: And Lee Corso got his got his you.
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  Speaker 3: Know, I got my picture taken with Lee. Oh, I know,
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  Speaker 3: I'm I'm very happy about that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that was That was a cool moment as well
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  Speaker 1: before the game. Good to see him get honored and
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  Speaker 1: and sort of get get to say goodbye to the
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  Speaker 1: college football world and and as you know, get his
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  Speaker 1: get his flowers. Is what Kirk kurk Street and Rhys
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  Speaker 1: Davis both said on the previous episode of the Morning Show.
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  Speaker 1: So there you go, Ohio State fourteen, Texas seven. Your
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  Speaker 1: final score, not the end of the first quarter, that
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  Speaker 1: is your final score. Buckeyes want to know on the season.
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  Speaker 1: Grambling come into town on Saturday. Should be a fun one,
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  Speaker 1: mostly a marching band concert, but there will be a
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  Speaker 1: football game both before and after, so we'll get a
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  Speaker 1: chance to cover that. We'll have coverage probably plenty of
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  Speaker 1: plenty more to talk about from this Texas game all
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  Speaker 1: week long at bucke huddle dot com as where we've
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  Speaker 1: got our whole team of insiders covering the Buckeyes, covering recruiting,
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  Speaker 1: covering x's and no's. We'll have plenty to talk about
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  Speaker 1: on all of those fronts this week at Buckeye Huddle
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  Speaker 1: dot com. We hope to see you there. That'll do
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  Speaker 1: it for today. Thank you guys all for joining us.
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  Speaker 2: Have a great day. We will talk to you tomorrow