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3 Things From Ohio State's Win Over Iowa That Could Impact The Oregon Game · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Sunday, October sixth.
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  Speaker 2: I'm your host, Tom Or.
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  Speaker 1: The Oregon game is in six days. Been waiting a
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  Speaker 1: while to say that the game against Michigan in fifty
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  Speaker 1: five days before we get to the Oregon game, which
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure is all anyone really wants to think or
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  Speaker 1: talk about in Columbus this week.
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  Speaker 2: We do need to wrap things up with the Iowa Hawkeyes.
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  Speaker 1: Buckeyes wasn't beautiful, it wasn't thrilling necessarily. It was just
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  Speaker 1: the job is done. Punch the clock, pull the tail
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  Speaker 1: of the the pelican or whatever. Go get in your
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  Speaker 1: car and your pedal your way home.
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  Speaker 2: The job is done.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State has beaten Iowa thirty five two seven, and Kevin,
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  Speaker 1: I feel like this was a game where it was
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  Speaker 1: very similar to what we were expecting. It was not
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  Speaker 1: going to be a game that everyone was going to
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  Speaker 1: watch and go, oh, this is what a thrill a minute,
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  Speaker 1: thrill ride, incredible, you know, tent pole movie kind of game.
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  Speaker 2: It was just it was nothing at the half.
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  Speaker 1: But Ohio State kind of checked a lot of the
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  Speaker 1: boxes you were looking to have them check.
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  Speaker 3: It was kind of a sleepy Saturday in a lot
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  Speaker 3: of ways. And you know, I'm not going to mention
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  Speaker 3: a ton of games Alabama lost because we're recording this
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  Speaker 3: initial games going on. But Ohio State scores on the
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  Speaker 3: first drive. I believe I saw stat saying it was
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  Speaker 3: the first time in twenty seven games that Iowa has
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  Speaker 3: given up a touchdown on the first drive of a game.
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  Speaker 3: So very impressive with that. Ohio State had a couple
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  Speaker 3: of turnovers that really kind of kept the first half
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  Speaker 3: in check and they go to the locker room only
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  Speaker 3: up seven to nothing, and you know, I think there
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  Speaker 3: were some people that were very concerned on social media
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  Speaker 3: Will Howard is having an off game. Oh by the way,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, his numbers were actually really good.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, twenty one to twenty five, two oh nine
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  Speaker 3: four touchdowns. Did throw a bad pick in my opinion,
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  Speaker 3: I mean, any wouldn't you say, oh I was a
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  Speaker 3: good pick? I think, right, yeah, I mean it's never,
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  Speaker 3: it's never really in the in the geometry there. But
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State, to its credit, kind of stuck to its
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  Speaker 3: guns and came out in the second half and puts
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  Speaker 3: up twenty one points in the third quarter in Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State's really becoming a third quarter team.
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  Speaker 1: I watched this game sort of through the lens of
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  Speaker 1: Oregon because this is a good win for Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: This is a borderline top twenty five team. I was
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  Speaker 1: gonna win nine games this year, maybe ten games this year,
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  Speaker 1: and Ohio State really dispatched them pretty efficiently thirty five
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  Speaker 1: nothing in the middle of.
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  Speaker 2: The fourth quarter.
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  Speaker 1: But you're kind of watching this game through the lens
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  Speaker 1: of Oregon because the Ducks played on Friday night against
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  Speaker 1: Michigan State, and you watched Oregon kind of run through
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  Speaker 1: the Michigan State defense and it was like, oh boy.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State coaching staff talked about the importance of getting
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  Speaker 1: guys to the ground and not having a three yard
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  Speaker 1: game turn into a five yard gain and a five
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  Speaker 1: yard game turn into.
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  Speaker 2: An eight yard gain.
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  Speaker 1: The Buckeyes facing Caleb Johnson, very very talented Iowa running back.
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  Speaker 2: He finished with fifteen carries.
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  Speaker 1: For eighty six yards, but a lot of that came
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  Speaker 1: again in kind of garbage time at the end. They
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  Speaker 1: really contained the Iowa run game. Looking ahead at Iowa
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  Speaker 1: at the Oregon game, Boy, that felt like that was
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  Speaker 1: one of the big questions that Ohio State maybe answered.
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  Speaker 2: A little bit on Saturday.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, we had the chance to see Oregon
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  Speaker 3: play on Friday, and I think everybody's got their list
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  Speaker 3: of concerns. But for what you want to say about
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  Speaker 3: Iowa's offense, Caleb Johnson is Caleb Johnson, and he's very talented.
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  Speaker 2: You know.
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  Speaker 3: With the eighty six yards kind of backloaded with some
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  Speaker 3: garbage time, if we're really being honest, kind of cost
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  Speaker 3: me on one of my three shots. I thought I
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  Speaker 3: was going to get I was going to land a
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  Speaker 3: big one on there with one of the Ohio State
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  Speaker 3: backs out pacing him, but that didn't happen. But everything
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  Speaker 3: is building. It's a crescendo for the Oregon game because honestly,
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  Speaker 3: as we look at the season and we look at
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  Speaker 3: everything and there they're gonna be your matchups that are
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  Speaker 3: historical and I kind of use air quotes or that
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  Speaker 3: with Penn State and then obviously against the team up
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  Speaker 3: north in Michigan, and you want to face some adversity
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  Speaker 3: in Ohio State, I think is going to face more
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  Speaker 3: adversity at Oregon. But having a couple of points of
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  Speaker 3: going on the road the first time to Michigan State
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  Speaker 3: and not everything going according to plan exactly. Coming back
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  Speaker 3: home and having kind of that as I said earlier
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  Speaker 3: in the show, that sleepy Saturday, that's something else that
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  Speaker 3: they can build on, because it's not going to be
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  Speaker 3: sleepy at Oddsen. It is going to be very loud,
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  Speaker 3: very hostile. I did kind of sit there and hear
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  Speaker 3: the end of a Mecca the Buka. Talking to the
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  Speaker 3: reporters here, he was asked about going to Oregon. He's like, oh,
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  Speaker 3: I hope it's chaotic and you.
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  Speaker 2: Know, and I have a good news friend, Yes it
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  Speaker 2: will be.
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  Speaker 3: It will be, But with him being from Washington State,
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure he knows plenty about Oregon.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So the buck Eyes first quarter allowed Iowa five carries
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  Speaker 1: two point eight yards, second quarter nine carries zero point
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  Speaker 1: five four yards on the ground. That is is in
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  Speaker 1: the first half. Check that box, Move on with life.
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  Speaker 1: The other side of the ball, I wondered how well
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State was gonna be able to run the ball
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  Speaker 1: against a good defensive front, because Oregon completely shut down
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  Speaker 1: Michigan State on Friday night, and I thought, oh boy,
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  Speaker 1: are the Black Eyes gonna be able to do this
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  Speaker 1: against a good defense? And it's not exactly the same defense,
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  Speaker 1: but it's a good defense against with the iowhaw Keys.
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  Speaker 2: You don't typically run all over the iowhaw Keys buck Eyes.
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  Speaker 1: First quarter eight carries five point three yards per carry.
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  Speaker 1: Second quarter seven carries nine point seven yards per carry.
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  Speaker 1: So they were able to kind of establish the run,
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  Speaker 1: and there was not the one big run. There wasn't
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  Speaker 1: the eighty six yard well skewed the numbers Quinchohn Judkins
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  Speaker 1: thirteen carries seventy eight yards, Travian Henderson eleven carries sixty
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  Speaker 1: one yards. Will Howard ten carries twenty eight yards. They
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  Speaker 1: averaged five point one yards per carry, and the long
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  Speaker 1: was twenty one. So it was just a lot of fours.
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  Speaker 2: You four is great. Four is great on the ground because.
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  Speaker 1: If you're picking up four yards on first down, it's
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  Speaker 1: second and six, you're still on schedule. You pick up
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  Speaker 1: four second down, now it's third and two. You can
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  Speaker 1: do whatever you want. You get the whole playbook open
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  Speaker 1: to you. I felt like I saw. It was not thrilling,
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  Speaker 1: it was not incredible. It was not a game that's
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  Speaker 1: gonna go down in Ohio state history. But it was
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  Speaker 1: a game where you watched and you thought I think
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  Speaker 1: you're seeing a lot of the stuff that Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: needs to do next week in Eugene. You're seeing that
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  Speaker 1: they can do it against a good defense.
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  Speaker 3: Right, there's gonna be a lot of talk that we're
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  Speaker 3: gonna have and hear everything about that Ohio State is
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  Speaker 3: only shown twenty five percent of its playbook or whatever.
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  Speaker 3: But Ohio State was able to show that it was
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  Speaker 3: I mean, in that first half that was very sleepy.
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  Speaker 3: That was one touchdown they were able to run. I
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  Speaker 3: really have questions about why on some of the stall
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  Speaker 3: drives they didn't keep running. We're running at a good
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  Speaker 3: clip at five point four or whatever, Let's throw it
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  Speaker 3: three times. Yes, I don't know about that, but I'll
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  Speaker 3: say this kind of looking if we're playing the transit
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  Speaker 3: of property, who would you rather have the Michigan State
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  Speaker 3: running backs or the Ohio State running backs.
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  Speaker 2: I don't feel like this is the most challenging question.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to get a whole week.
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  Speaker 1: No, you mentioned a Mecca Abuka earlier there, and yeah,
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  Speaker 1: the running backs were the running game was efficient. Mecca
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  Speaker 1: Abuka had three receiving touchdowns. He had a huge game,
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  Speaker 1: nine catches seventy one yards, again long of fifteen.
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  Speaker 2: This was not a huge explosive game.
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  Speaker 1: This was not a three hundred yard receiving game like
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  Speaker 1: you saw from Jackson Smith and Jigba and the Rose
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  Speaker 1: Bowl a couple of years ago. Nine catches, three touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: nine catches on ten targets. It was a game where
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  Speaker 1: they did not have Carnell Tait, and that sounds like
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  Speaker 1: that was purely a precautionary thing. And Jeremiah Smith, you
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  Speaker 1: could tell I alone knew.
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  Speaker 2: Where Jeremiah Smith was.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith got a lot of attention and even without
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  Speaker 1: Carnell Tait Ohio State, No, they just had another guy
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  Speaker 1: who just stepped up and caught three touchdowns.
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  Speaker 3: And did not hear Jeremiah Smith's name called for a
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  Speaker 3: while in the game, and then when we finally did,
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  Speaker 3: he had a fumble. Yeah, but you know, he it
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  Speaker 3: would have been very easy for a freshman to fold
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  Speaker 3: at that point, to sit there and be like, been
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  Speaker 3: very easy for the coaching staff to say, all right,
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  Speaker 3: you're gonna have a seat over there. Not Jeremiah Smith.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, he's just you know, he's a freak. And
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  Speaker 3: he had yet another one handed touchdown grab and everything else.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, Ohio State has waves upon waves upon
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  Speaker 3: waves of weapons. You know, I still hear from people, Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: well they don't have what do they have a tight end?
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  Speaker 3: I mean, who are you not going to throw to?
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  Speaker 3: To throw to the tight ends? And I do understand
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  Speaker 3: that they hit Casmeric once in there, and but honestly,
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  Speaker 3: this offense, as long as they're all kind of on
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  Speaker 3: the same page, is pretty damn difficult to slow down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you do have to kind of pick your poison there.
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  Speaker 1: And if they can run the ball against Oregon, that
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  Speaker 1: will probably help them in terms of pass protection, keeping
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  Speaker 1: the organ defensive line, because they've got a couple of
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  Speaker 1: real good defensive ends who made Michigan State's life deeply
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  Speaker 1: unpleasant on Friday night. But yeah, if ohios Ate can
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  Speaker 1: run the ball, and it looks like they probably can,
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  Speaker 1: that is going to go a long way, I think
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  Speaker 1: towards helping them potentially pull out a win in Eugene
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  Speaker 1: next Saturday. So, all right, we've talked enough about Iowa.
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  Speaker 2: No one wants to talk about it. This feels this
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  Speaker 2: feels a.
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  Speaker 1: Little like the game before the Michigan game, where it's
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  Speaker 1: you know, we do the postgame show and It's like,
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  Speaker 1: all right, we have to spend seventeen minutes talking about
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  Speaker 1: the fact that they beat Maryland before we can get
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  Speaker 1: to the thing that everyone actually wants to talk about,
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  Speaker 1: do we well, yeah to historically, Yes, it is finally
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  Speaker 1: time to turn the page to the Oregon game. This
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  Speaker 1: is going to be an enormous game nationally, top five
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  Speaker 1: probably matchup. I mean, we'll see how far Alabama drops
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  Speaker 1: in the polls, but it feels like this this is
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  Speaker 1: going to be probably a top five matchup, one of
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  Speaker 1: the most anticipated games of the year, and again in
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  Speaker 1: a spot worre Ohio State hasn't played like over the years.
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  Speaker 2: They've had a bunch of these non conference.
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  Speaker 1: Schedule games in Texas or Oklahoma.
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  Speaker 2: This is right up there.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean Notuxtin Stadium is known by many as
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  Speaker 3: the loudest stadium in the country. So I mean, you're
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  Speaker 3: going to have to have your stuff right. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: how many communications probably not going to be very helpful
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  Speaker 3: with if the vans are all louthered up. You've got
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  Speaker 3: to hit them fast, you got to hit them hard.
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  Speaker 3: They had to try and take them out of the game.
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  Speaker 3: And Oregon still is a team that you could be
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  Speaker 3: up three scores and still have seventeen minutes left on
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  Speaker 3: the block and be in deep duck to because I
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  Speaker 3: mean they are an explosive offense. Dylan Gabriel, their quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: had a couple of bad interceptions in the game against
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  Speaker 3: Michigan State. They try to slow it down a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: They ended up running the ball some to try and
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  Speaker 3: let him kind of reset. He was able to reset.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, this is going to go down as
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  Speaker 3: one of the biggest games of the season. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: obviously we've had Alabama Georgia. You know, now we can
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  Speaker 3: look back at that and be like maybe, but you know,
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  Speaker 3: there's still gonna be some big games the weekend of
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  Speaker 3: the twelfth, and there're gonna be some big games the
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  Speaker 3: weekend of the nineteenth. So buckle up.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, We're definitely we will definitely be buckling up.
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  Speaker 1: We will be buckling up because the stewardess on the
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  Speaker 1: plane will tell us we need to buckle up. We
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  Speaker 2: We have a ton of content planned for this week.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have our usual interviews and all that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Midweek we have Tony and I will be dropping on Sunday,
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  Speaker 2: Look, you know, looking at the Oregon.
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  Speaker 1: And their game against the Michigan State spartans what we
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  Speaker 1: at your watch like Kevin just did and wondering when is.
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  Speaker 2: The game soon? Yeah? How soon is this game gonna happen? Why?
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  Speaker 2: Why isn't the game happening sooner?
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  Speaker 1: it for today. Thank you guys all for joining us.
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  Speaker 1: Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.