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Ohio State Getting A Surprise Visit From 5-Star Lineman Jordan Seaton · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, December second. I'm your host,
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  tom Or the game to gets me shiget in three hundred and sixty four days.
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  And if we remember back when you were a kid and you'd ask your
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  mom what's for dinner? And every once in a while she'd get a look
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  on her face like, ah, that's a good question, and then you'd
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  sort of rummage to the pantries. There's always something you can always put you
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  us, throw us something together. Why am I talking about this, Well,
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  we got a whole bunch of stuff to talk about on today's morning show.
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  Nothing exactly worth a whole morning show. But you know, sometimes dinner
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  is sometimes you get a little breakfast for dinner with you know, a side
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  of leftover hamburgers, and you know that's fine. You know what, It
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  all tasted great. So we're going to bring in I was about to say
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  speaking of things, it tastes great, and thought, no, that's not
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  the transition I want here. We're just going to bring in Tony Gertaman,
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  who never seems to know what's for dinner. Tony, We're going to talk
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  about three different things. The first thing, the first piece of news for
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  Ohio State that I wanted to talk about. News that broke late Friday afternoon.
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  The top overall tackle in the class of twenty twenty four, Jordan Seaton
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  from IMG He is going to be visiting Ohio State this weekend. According to
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  the tweet that he put out, it's going to be his final visit before
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  the signing date early signing day on December twentieth. Boy, oh boy.
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  You know, there has not been universally positive news for Ohio State the last
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  week, but boy, oh boy, if they could add Jordan Seaton to
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  their twenty twenty four recruiting class, that would really be a very, very
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  very big piece of good news for the Buckeyes. Yeah, it would,
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  and it would give them probably another definite tackle in the class. In terms
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  of offensive line. You know, are you a tackle? Are you a
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  guard? And they've got guys that can play tackle, but maybe more guards
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  than tackle though I think Deontay Armstrong is legitimately a tackle in college football.
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  But it would be nice for Ohio State to get some good news at this
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  point given everything that is going on. I did like the way Seaton announced
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  it on Twitter that he was making a visit to Ohio State where he quote
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  tweets one of the terrible rumor accounts. You know, whether the NFL has
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  them, college football has them, And basically it's like sources say that George
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  Seaton is committing to Colorado and then seton quote tweets that with the did your
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  sources tell you I'm visiting Ohio State this weekend? That sort of thing.
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  So I like the I like the play there, I like the the attitude
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  and the awareness, I guess, but yeah, I mean this would be
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  just getting him to Ohio State is I think that's been something that you've talked
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  about. I have talked about Mark Giveler has talked about like this has to
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  happen before he's actually in play, and so now you're getting this to happen
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  with three weeks until signing day, essentially last chance to make the best impression
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  that you've got. So, whether whether it happens or a does in terms
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  of the commitment, this is a good step forward for the buck Eyes and
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  if they can make it happen, then this this is what they've needed for
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  a while. Actually, this is at least a very necessary first step to
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  potentially having him end up in the class, and I know there are people
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  who are probably wondering, wouldn't you rather have him on campus during a game
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  weekend? And that's true to a certain degree. There's a reason you typically
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  do visits during a game weekend, as you do get the atmosphere and all
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  that kind of stuff. But when you don't have a game weekend, then
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  the coaches can spend the whole weekend just focused on the visit and not having
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  to worry about you know, hey, there's a football game to be played,
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  and there are also thirty other people here who are also visiting this weekend.
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  You can kind of make you know, one or two people really the
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  full focus of that weekend. So that is certainly something that would be you
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  know, potentially working in Ohio states favor here, something else working in their
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  favor. You know, everyone loves to throw out rumors and oh, I'm
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  hearing you know, I have sources within the YadA YadA, YadA. No
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  one has put in a crystal ball yet on Jordan Seaton. So he is
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  one of the most sought after prospects in the nation. Every single program,
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  you know, all these programs want I mean the Alabama wants them and you
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  know, you go down his offer us a list and it's like, yes,
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  that is all of major programs in America. No one feels so confident
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  that they have put their name on a prediction yet other than the sort of
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  random Twitter account. So yeah, that is definitely a story to watch.
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  I'm going to guess this will not be the last time we talk about Jordan
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  Seaton on this on this show in the next three to four days or so.
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  So there's there is a piece of news number one, not a fully
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  formed, fully baked story there yet, but you know, certainly something that
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  is worth keeping an eye on for sure for the next few days. Something
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  else. Tony was on yesterday show, we previewed the whole weekend of games
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  at Ohio State fans need to kind of keep an eye on and who they
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  need to be rooting for. The last piece of the puzzle was Florida State
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  has to lose on Saturday night, and then on Friday afternoon, news broke
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  that Tate Roadamaker Jordan Travis of course already out for the season, their starting
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  quarterback, their number two quarterback, Tate Roademaker. He is now a game
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  day decision for the ACC championship game against Louisville and Tony. What's really interesting
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  is if Tate Roadamaker can't go and they're down to their third string quarterback.
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  Their third string quarterback is a true freshman whose name is probably going to sound
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  pretty familiar to Ohio State fans. Yeah. Brock Glenn, a former Ohio
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  State commitment decommitted from Ohio State November twenty one of last year, so about
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  three hundred and seventy four days ago or something like that. Decommitted from Ohio
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  State, committed to Florida State, and I believe was getting some action in
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  late of late because of the injuries. And let's talk with somebody else about
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  this, and they mentioned what was it when when maybe Charlie Ward went down
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  and they went to the Florida Florida State had to play in the playoffs with
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  or playing the bowl game with Marcus Outson Remember those days. I don't know
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  if it was Charlie Ward or who it was at that point, but still
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  playing for a national championship with a quarterback that was playing because of an injury
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  to the starter, and this would be I mean, there's several connections here.
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  Obviously, the Brock Glenn being a d commitment from Ohio State. Ohio
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  State having won a national championship and a playoff with a third string quarterback,
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  they showed that it can be done. But also Ohio State fans needing Brock
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  Glenn to not win this game for Florida State so that if all goes right,
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  and boy, it would be something if this is the last domino that
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  needs to fall and the guy who was formerly an Ohio State commitment goes and
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  leads his team to an ACC championship, looks good doing it and maybe eliminates
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  the Ohio State Buckeyes from the playoffs. And Brooklyn has played very sparingly this
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  year. Three games of action, two carries for thirty six yards against Southern
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  Miss that was on September ninth, and then just a couple of weeks ago
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  against North Alabama the game where Jordan Travis got hurt, he was two for
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  three for thirty five yards, four rushes, five yards, one touchdown on
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  the ground, and then oh for one against Florida last week. That's it.
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  That is the extent of Brooklyn's college career. So well, he's well
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  rested. They have that going for them if he is the one who is
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  called upon on Saturday night. But yeah, boy, oh boy, you
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  know, fourteen months ago, if I had told you Ohio State's playoff hit,
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  chances will hinge on what brocklen does on championship weekend in twenty twenty three,
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  you probably would have thought, boy, I guess some guys got hurt,
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  but you know, I could see it, and that may be where
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  we are. And it was because some guys got hurt, but probably not
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  in the way you would have expected thirteen or fourteen months ago. So that
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  is story number two, and then story number three. Tony is okay.
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  So let's say brock Glenn does win, or Texas wins, or the Washington
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  Oregon game is very very close and goes double overtime, and both of those
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  teams are still ranked ahead of Ohio State. Whatever it is, one of
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  the pieces of the puzzle does not fall into place, and Ohio State misses
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  the college football playoff. Where is Ohio State potentially looking at going on when
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  the bowls are announced on Sunday afternoon? Where is the most likely destination and
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  who is the most likely playoff opponent or non playoff opponent? And then what
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  else is at least theoretically on the table. Yeah, it seems. And
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  if you look at all of the projections, you will see Ohio State and
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  Louisville in the Capital One Orange Bowl, which is you know, would I
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  don't think it would excite Ohio State fans too much. I am personally I
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  am hoping force them. Finagling to where you can get Ohio State and perhaps
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  Alabama in the Peach Bowl would be a more interesting game, but it would
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  need to probably have some some back office wheeling and dealing that sometimes happens to
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  make more entertaining matchups. But yeah, the Capitol One the Orange Bowl is
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  generally like acc SEC, but with the SEC as as it is at this
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  point and the Notre Dame not being in the picture, it leads to everybody
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  projecting the Orange Bowl for Ohio State. Now I've seen other people say maybe
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  possibly the Cotton Bowl, but the Cotton Bowl is at large versus at large.
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  The Chick fil A Peach Bowl right now is at large at large because
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  because of everybody who's involved in the playoffs, you've got the SEC in there.
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  Obviously, you've got the big tens of the Rose Ball. The rose
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  Ball itself is in a playoffs, so that's not an option. So it
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  looks like it's it's those three, with the heavy favorite right now being the
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  Orange Bowl. But the concern there I would have for Io State tom is
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  obviously a bunch of people not playing, but also there's some there's some flashbacks
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  to the bowl game against air Force, where like just the complete lack of
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  interest might lead to Ohio State not not really wanting to be there and then
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  losing because of it. Well, I think what might help mitigate the lack
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  of interest or the perception of a lack of interest is if you do have
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  a bunch of starters and veterans who've played a bunch sit that game out,
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  so you know, you're missing an offensive lineman, or you're missing a running
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  back, or you're missing wide receiver or two, or you're missing a couple
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  guys off the defensive front. That does open things up for a bunch of
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  guys to have first career starts and sort of get a little bit of a
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  head start on spring football. So I don't know that you know, if
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  if this is your first career start, you know, let's say hypothetically,
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  Travan Henderson decides Okay, I'm going to set out the Orange Bowl, and
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  this could be a you know, a start for Dalan Hayden, for example.
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  I don't think Dalan Hayden is too disinterested or you know, and you
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  can, you know, sub in whoever you want to in terms of who
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  would potentially sit out or who might fill in, And there's obviously a long
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  way to go before you know, we'll find out on Sunday which ball they're
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  going to, and then after that we'll find out who's going to play,
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  and then after that we'll find out how interested they are. But it does
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  feel like that could be sort of spring football version one point zero for Ohio
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  State, which honestly it you know that that's not the way that you want
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  to end the twenty twenty three season. That also could be a beneficial thing
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  for the twenty twenty four Buck guys to have a whole you know, basically
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  fifteen bowl practices plus a game of a game worth of film and then you
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  have fifteen spring practices and the spring game, and so you know, you
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  basically kind of double up on spring football. You generally want to get those
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  young guys some reps during the bowl and we hear about that every year,
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  even when they're going to the playoff. You know how beneficial lab extra Bowl
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  practices for the young guys. That would probably only be more true in this
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  case, So we'll keep an eye on that. We'll know a lot more.
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  We'll know a little more on Friday night when the Washington Oregon game goes
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  final, and then we will know a lot more throughout the day on Saturday
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  as the championship Saturday plays out and we find out how that might impact the
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  bowl destination and the postseason future for Ohio State. This year, they're going
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  somewhere. They're going to a big name Grand Bowl game, wherever it is,
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  and we will find out where that is and who they will be playing
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  on Sunday afternoon, and we'll have an interview we'll be streaming in live interview
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  with Day Sunday afternoon at three o'clock. We're with more information on the bowl,
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  where they're playing, all that kind of stuff. But we will have
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  plenty more coming for you over the weekend as well at Buckey Huddle dot com,
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  at YouTube dot com slash Buckeyehuddle. So make sure if you're watching this
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  coach interviews and all that kind of good stuff. We'll probably do a live
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  show at some point in the next few days. I'm sure there's gonna be
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  a lot to talk about. Hey, there's a big recruit on campus this
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  weekend, for example, just one thing to kind of keep an eye on.
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  But we'll have many, much more on all of that at Buckeye huddle
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  dot com. That will do it for today. Thank you guys all for
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  joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.