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4 Things We Just Learned About Ohio State's 2024 Football Schedule · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buck Guys tomorrow morning for Friday May thirty. First time your host
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  Tom Moore, the Akron game in ninety two days, the game against Michigan
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  in one hundred and eighty three days, and now we know what time that
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  Akron game is going to kickoff, as promised on the show with Bat Sars.
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  Earlier in the week, some of the networks dropped their early season kickoff
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  times, some of the network assignments on Thursday, So we're gonna be talking
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  about some of those. Learn some stuff about some of the games later on
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  in the season, not everything, but we know more about. For example,
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  when Ohio State's going to play Northwestern at Wrigley Fields. We'll be talking
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  about all of that today with our buddy Kevin Noon Buckeyehuddle dot Com. Kevin,
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  Let's start with the season opener Ohios Did and Akron. It was announced
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  earlier in the week that Ohios Did is a favorite by more than fifty points
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  in that game, fifty and a half points in that game. So of
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  course we're going to get the CBS on SEC Music. It's going to be
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  a three to thirty kickoff on National TV. I'm sure people saw that and
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  went, huh, so, can you explain to the wonderful listeners at home
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  why CBS would want to televise Ohio State and Akron at three thirty pm.
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  Well, obviously so they can cut in with Young Sheldon at halftime because this
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  game is going to get out of hand quickly. Fifty and a half points,
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  a lot of points. But all of that there. I mean,
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  you want to go out and start off the season if you can. If
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  it's a if it's kind of a meh week and you don't necessarily have a
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  lot of options, why not grab the program that turns on TV sets unlike
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  any other program in the country, and that is Ohio State. Yeah.
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  When I saw it at first, I was like, God, it must
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  really be a thin week. But when you sit there and see maybe who
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  gets first pick, I'm I guarantee you CBS did not waste a lot of
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  capital grabbing this game. It was just sitting right there and it's like,
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  oh, why not. Ohio State's supposed to be really good this year.
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  Why not get in there when you can and televise the buck guys and set
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  things off. Because we are now in a sec less world for CBS.
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  It was kind of one foot in and one foot out of the pool last
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  year. Now it's completely in the Big Ten pool. So why not go
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  with the team that is the Vegas betting favorite to win the Big Ten Conference
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  and make college football Playoff the Ohio State Buck. Thinking back to last year,
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  I think the season opener at Indiana that might have also been a three
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  thirty CBS game. And you know, if I'm remembering that correctly, and
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  this is one of these things I could have looked up before we started recording,
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  but it just occurred to me as you were talking. There was CBS
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  for sure, but I don't remember the remember kick time? Yeah, but
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  yeah, this is a chance too. There are a lot of mismatches Week
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  one. This is a chance to get you know, one of these fan
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  bases is going to be tuned in. Don't lie to yourself. You're going
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  to be watching this game. It'll be fine. One piece of good news
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  because this is a little bit of a weird time for this game, the
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  Georgia Clemson game. You got to remember that it was announced as a noon
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  kicks. You will be able to watch the Georgia Clemson game, which is
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  probably the best game of week one before you switch channels to the Ohios Date
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  Acron game, or you'll be able to watch it in the tail getting lots
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  at Ohio Stadium wherever you are, you will be able to watch it without
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  having to split screen with the Buckeye. So that is some good news.
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  Week two, this is one where I think this is probably where you would
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  have guessed this one was going to be Ohio State. Every team in the
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  Big Ten has to be on the Big Ten Network twice generally including one conference
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  game. But they're going to try and put a lot of times. How
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  many times have we seen Heaven the primetime Big ten Network game that everyone kind
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  of rolls their eyes, why is, why are we watching Ohio State play
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  a MAC team in primetime? Well, as they want to put it on
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  the Big ten network, and this is one of the times slots. Big
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  Ten Network has Ohio State Western Michigan seven thirty pm on September seventh on Big
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  ten Network. Yeah, you have a better chance of not competing against yourself
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  when you are in largely your non conference schedule and now you are a conference
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  of eighteen teams, and now they do try to put conference games every week.
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  But let's say, for arguments, say fourteen teams are playing non conference,
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  BTN has to multiplex some games and put multiple games against itself. You
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  have this property in Ohio State that obviously turns on eyeballs and everything else.
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  Put it in the night window, give yourself an opportunity to You're you're certainly
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  not competing against much as much Big ten product, but you're not competing against
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  as much product in general because they're going to be more day games and they're
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  going to be night games. So I think all things being equal, putting
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  this as a night game makes a lot of sense. It is, you
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  know, Ohio State will have the opportunity to bring in recruits from far and
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  wide, but with high school football going on at that point, you know,
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  the recruiting calendar has certainly changed a lot, with official visits already getting
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  underway here on Friday. But you want to be able to have some of
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  those types of scenes, and and I'm sure you know, I'm honestly that
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  Western Michigan isn't that upset about having a game where it is maybe being spotlight
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  a little bit more in terms of that window. Not that the Broncos really
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  have any say in the matter. When you're announcing games at this point.
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  But I like both of these these times. You know, I think as
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  as writers, we like noon games because that means that our total day is
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  not shot. Stay tuned for the for the Buckey Huddle postgame show following the
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  Western Michigan game at I don't know, three in the morning or something like
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  that. But it's nice to see some some some dates and times announced.
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  Yeah, it is nice to be able to sort of start to put your
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  your fall together. And if you are coming in from out of town,
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  obviously you want to know do I need to book a hotel Friday night or
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  do I need to book a hotel Saturday night. Now you have a little
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  bit of structure to your week. So that is the Western Michigan game.
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  The only other game that we know a firm kickoff time, and now this
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  is one we knew about a couple weeks ago. But just to sort of
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  continue filling out your calendar, Ohio State Michigan of course a noon game on
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  Fox so Ohios State nacron August thirty first, three thirty pm on CBS.
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  Ohio State Western Michigan September seventh, seven thirty pm on btn Ohio State Michigan
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  November thirtieth, twelve pm Eastern on Fox. So those are the three we
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  know for sure. Now there's two others where I think we kind of would
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  have probably put these games in these windows, broadly speaking, basically eliminating primetime.
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  There's two games that we know, we don't know when they're going to
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  air, we don't know where they're going to air, but we know they're
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  not going to be primetime games. The first of those is Homecoming. That
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  is October twenty sixth against Nebraska. Homecoming just for whatever reason, annually that
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  is never a night game. It will not be a night game this year.
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  But we don't yet know Kevin exactly when or where the Ohio State Nebraska
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  game is going to kick off on October twenty sixth, Right, Yeah,
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  so the twelve o'clock window, the three thirty window network wise, we're just
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  going to have to see what's going on. It would be still pretty early
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  for the networks to use a six day exemption that week. I mean,
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  I can't believe we're already talking about that right here at the very end of
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  May, but here we are. If Dylan Rayola ends up being something in
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  Nebraska is not the same Nebraska that we've seen the last several years. I
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  mean, maybe there's going to be more demand for that game and we could
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  see it move up the hierarchy. This is certainly not going to be a
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  game that's going to slide down to BT in in my opinion, It's going
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  to be on one of the it's gonna be on one of the over the
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  air networks in my opinion, maybe sliding down to FS one, depending on
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  what else is out there. Wouldn't it be a kick in the chops of
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  this one was a peacock game because remember we haven't even necessarily talked about the
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  whole streaming arm of all of this stuff as well. But yeah, it's
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  not going to be a night game, so we know that. Get your
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  hotel room if you are coming in from out of town for Friday night.
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  Now, hell, get one for Saturday night too. Make a weekend of
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  it and enjoy yourself in Columbus and buy me a beer while you're at it.
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  Well, I think people are hearing you talk about Nebraska and this could
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  be a really big game. I'm just going to read through the schedule that
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  Nebraska has before they get to that Ohio State game on October twenty six.
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  This is reasonably far into the season. Home against UTEP, home against Colorado,
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  home against Northern Iowa, home against Illinois at Purdue, home against Rutgers
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  at Indiana. It is not inconceivable that that could be a matchup of two
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  unbeaten teams. Ohio State has much more a much more challenging schedule before that
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  game than Nebraska does, so it is not entirely inconceivable that could be undefeated
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  Nebraska coming in and playing you know whatever. It would be six and one,
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  seven and one Ohio State. That's a possibility. So we'll see where
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  that is, but it will not be a primetime game wherever it is.
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  The other one that we know is not going to be a primetime game,
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  the Ohio State game against Northwestern that set for Wrigley Field. This one.
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  Someone just asked about this on our board a couple days ago, and I
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  said, I don't think it's going to be a primetime game, just based
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  on the Wrigleyville neighborhood and their agreement with the Cubs, and they only have
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  so many night games because it's such a pain in the butt to have people
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  around that neighborhood at night. Plus it's a November game in Chicago. They
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  generally are probably not going to try to do too many games that close to
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  Lake Michigan in mid November. So that's another one Kevin where we don't know
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  when and we don't know where it's gonna be televised, But we know that's
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  also not gonna be a primetime game. All of the jokes are in play
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  here. Took them one hundred plus years to put lights at Wrigley, Why
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  would they play a night football game there. We could talk about the fact
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  of November night games and is there a big tin agreement? Is there not
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  a big tin agreement? How does that necessarily work? Game's not going to
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  be on WGN, so it's not truly going to be a game from Wrigley.
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  It makes a lot of sense. I mean, hopefully it just is
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  not a game where the wind is blowing out or in or sideways or swirling
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  or whatever like the last game that we got to cover at Northwestern where Tom's
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  hat went a fly in. But you know it'll be if it will be
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  fun to go out there for whether or not it is a noon or three
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  thirty game. A noon game would be great because that means maybe we could
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  catch a couple of games with some beers at the Cubby Bear. So just
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  book it right now, three thirty. Why would anything ever work out for
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  revenue? Yeah, that's gonna be quite a scene there. That's gonna be
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  a quite a non traditional tailgating and postgames set up there for a college football
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  game. But should be a really memorable, fun weekend. I'm really looking
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  forward to that one. There are a bunch of games this year on the
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  schedule. I'm really looking forward to it. I'm sure you are, and
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  the listeners at home are as well. Should be a really fun season.
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  So we have that coming in a little under one hundred days, starting with
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  that Akron game and ending with that Michigan game, and then whatever happens after
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  that, we'll see, but it is going to be a heck of a
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  season. And we also had someone speaking of speaking of posts on our board.
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  Someone was just saying, boy, it's really in the quiet time of
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  year. Is like, Nope, not anymore. As you said earlier,
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  official visits start on Friday. We're going to have coverage of all sorts of
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  that whole sorts of recruiting coverage coming up for you at Buckeye Huddle dot com.
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  We're heading into the busy season for recruiting official visits. Summer camps start
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  next week, so we're gonna get a chance to see a bunch of these
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  guys in person, a bunch of guys potentially having a chance to earn offers,
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  and at Ohio State camp, Ohio State having a chance to make a
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  big impression on some guys who are visiting. So this is going to be
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  a very busy, a very busy June, as always, May is done
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  onto June, onto a very busy recruiting month, and then we head into
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  the preseason month where you get big ten media days, all the other conference
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  media days, and then summer camp and then the seasons here bing bang boom.
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  all for joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.