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Why the Ohio State vs. Miami Cotton Bowl Matchup Could Get UGLY · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Wednesday, December thirty. First,
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host Tom Moore. The Cotton Bowl game against
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  Speaker 1: Miami later on today the game against Michigan in three
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be a show with our buddy ex'es and
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  Speaker 1: o's guru Ross Fulton, and then the schedules just didn't work.
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  Speaker 1: There's a lot of stuff going on here at the
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  Speaker 1: Cotton Bowl, so just didn't line up. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: try and get him on in the morning of the
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  Speaker 1: thirty first and try and get you a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of a pregame show with him. But in the meantime,
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  Speaker 1: I want to give you a little bit of a
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  Speaker 1: bonus episode. This is Garrett Seawright from the Daily Huddle
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  Speaker 1: College football podcast. His show is entitled why the Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State versus Miami cotton Ball matchup could get ugly? Think
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  Speaker 1: you guys will enjoy this one. Garrett does a great
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  Speaker 1: job with those shows. If you enjoy it, make sure
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  Speaker 2: In the first year the expanted college football played off,
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  Speaker 2: every team that got a buy lost in their first game.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's an anomaly and I don't think that
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  Speaker 2: you should expect that to continue in the future. And
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  Speaker 2: there are two games that I feel pretty strongly excuse me,
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  Speaker 2: the teams that got buys will be moving on, and
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  Speaker 2: the first is Ohio State Miami. I don't think this
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  Speaker 2: is a great matchup for the Hurricanes really at all.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that their offense against the Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: defense is a spectacular matchup. And Carson Beck, to his credit,
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  Speaker 2: has played significantly better than I thought he could slash would.
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  Speaker 3: As the Miami quarterback coming into the season.
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  Speaker 2: I was not shy about the fact that I kind
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  Speaker 2: of viewed Carson Beck is the most overrated quarterback prospect and.
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  Speaker 3: Player in the country because.
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  Speaker 2: What had he done that made you think like you
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  Speaker 2: had to have that guy to lead.
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  Speaker 3: Your program going forward. It just wasn't there.
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  Speaker 2: Now he has thrown ten picks, but in the grand
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  Speaker 2: scheme of things, it's not.
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  Speaker 3: That big of a deal.
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  Speaker 2: Furthermore, he's not been sacked all that often about one
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  Speaker 2: a game, and you know what, I don't think that's
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  Speaker 2: a big deal. I don't think one sack a game
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  Speaker 2: is something that you're like, well, that's the difference between
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  Speaker 2: winning and losing, because it's just generally not that's not
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  Speaker 2: the end all be all of a game. Now it
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  Speaker 2: can be, sure, but more often than not, it's just
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  Speaker 2: a play rather than the play. With that being said,
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  Speaker 2: there are two things that I think are working against
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  Speaker 2: Miami's offense to be successful. Against the Ohio State defense,
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  Speaker 2: there is, bar none the best in the country. That
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  Speaker 2: even in the game they lost, it wasn't like they
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  Speaker 2: got blown out or gave up a bunch of points. Sure,
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  Speaker 2: it was the last time out, but Ohio State's defense
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  Speaker 2: is the best defense in the country. And Miami doesn't
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  Speaker 2: run the ball all that well. They're not stupid effective
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  Speaker 2: in running the football. And I'm interested to see if
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  Speaker 2: there is a commitment to that against Ohio State because
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  Speaker 2: I've always had an appreciation for coaches who will go
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  Speaker 2: into a game and know like, hey, we're not gonna
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  Speaker 2: be able to do xyz against this team, So we're
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  Speaker 2: gonna have to figure out something else, because it's real
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  Speaker 2: easy to be just a mead and go, all right,
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  Speaker 2: I know that we don't run the ball that well,
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  Speaker 2: and they're not like Alabama bad run the ball, but
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  Speaker 2: Miami's run game not outstanding.
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  Speaker 3: In a high states.
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  Speaker 2: Run defense is the fifth best in the country, which
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  Speaker 2: is their worst statistical category. They give up eighty four
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  Speaker 2: and a half yards a game on the ground. My goodness,
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  Speaker 2: but it's real meat heady to just be like, my god,
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  Speaker 2: we're gonna sew them. We can run the football, and
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  Speaker 2: then you lose, and you're like, man, maybe we shouldn't
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  Speaker 2: have just tried to show it down their throat excuse we.
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  Speaker 3: Can't do it.
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  Speaker 2: But Miami doesn't run the football all that effectively. One
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty yards a game, which in today's college
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  Speaker 2: football with the clock rules is still all right, but.
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  Speaker 3: It ain't it ain't great.
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  Speaker 2: And so when you don't have the ability, and this
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  Speaker 2: is obviously jumping to conclusions, but when you don't have
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  Speaker 2: the ability to even remotely throw off the opposing defense,
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  Speaker 2: you're in for.
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  Speaker 3: A rough day.
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  Speaker 2: When you don't have the ability to throw off the
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  Speaker 2: best defense in the country, it's an even worse day.
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  Speaker 2: So when you have a situation where Carson Beck has
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  Speaker 2: been pretty accurate seventy five percent completion percentage, Now some
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  Speaker 2: of that ists because they don't always or aren't frequent
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  Speaker 2: huckers of the football. They don't chuck the ball down
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  Speaker 2: the field all that frequently. There's a lot of short passes,
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  Speaker 2: a lot of quick game that works to his advantages
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  Speaker 2: and strengths. Which I'm not knocking Miami by any stretch
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  Speaker 2: of the imagination. They have put him in a situation
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  Speaker 2: to succeed. When if you're in third and long or
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  Speaker 2: you're in second at long and the defense knows that
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  Speaker 2: you're about to throw football, that's tough to overcome. Coupled
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  Speaker 2: with the fact that Miami's not great on third down offensively,
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  Speaker 2: they're not great on third down. They're not bad, but
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  Speaker 2: they're not great. They convert less than fifty percent of
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  Speaker 2: their third down conversions. On the flip side of Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State's offense is second in the country in third down conversions.
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  Speaker 2: And if you ask, and I am annoyed by the answers,
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  Speaker 2: if you ask the questions to college football coaches, what
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  Speaker 2: do you need to do to win any given game,
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  Speaker 2: They'll tell you three things. Gotta win the turnover battle,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta win the line of scrimmage, and gotta win
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  Speaker 2: third down. And on third down, nobody in America is
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  Speaker 2: better than getting off the field in Ohio States defense
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  Speaker 2: in Miami's offense is not outstanding at keeping their drives going.
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  Speaker 2: So when you get a situation where the quarterback is
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  Speaker 2: slightly turnover prone has thrown ten interceptions, you don't have
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  Speaker 2: the ability really to run the football and you have
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  Speaker 2: a history of not being great on continuing drives on
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  Speaker 2: third down against the best defense in the country and
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  Speaker 2: the most efficient offense in the country. I think that
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  Speaker 2: that spells disaster for Miami. And I don't even think
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  Speaker 2: the coming to that realization is after watching their game
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  Speaker 2: against Texas A and M where it was a futile
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  Speaker 2: fest to see who could or wanted to win less
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  Speaker 2: because neither team looked great. And I don't think that
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  Speaker 2: that's really talk about Ohio State's last performance where they
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  Speaker 2: didn't look out standing against Indiana and some of their
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  Speaker 2: problems that had been problems throughout the entire season of
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  Speaker 2: short yardage situations.
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  Speaker 3: They are not good.
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State is not good in short yardage situations, in
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  Speaker 2: goal to goal situations, and we need to line up
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  Speaker 2: and out physical your ass situations. They are not good
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  Speaker 2: and it came back to haunt them. And so you
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  Speaker 2: can look at that one of two ways of that's
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  Speaker 2: an issue that you it's gonna persist that you're not
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  Speaker 2: gonna fix over the course of having a couple of
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  Speaker 2: weeks off, or it's the reigning national champions who obviously
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  Speaker 2: have very good coaches and maybe they'll figure it out.
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  Speaker 2: But if you hadn't figured it out through the first
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  Speaker 2: twelve weeks of the season, I had to struggle to
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  Speaker 2: think that it. Having it blow up in your face
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  Speaker 2: is the thing that makes you go, the hell, we
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  Speaker 2: should have fixed it here.
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  Speaker 3: I know how to fix this.
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  Speaker 2: So there's a different it's a different way to look
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  Speaker 2: at it, I guess. But all things considered, and I
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  Speaker 2: know I spoke about this in the podcast last week,
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  Speaker 2: I think that you're looking at an Ohio State ass
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  Speaker 2: Kicken of Miami. I just don't think the Hurricanes match
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  Speaker 2: up very well because the things that they do really well,
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  Speaker 2: the areas that they have been able to exploit other
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  Speaker 2: teams is especially Malachi Tony. There aren't a bunch of
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  Speaker 2: secondaries in America who are going to be able to
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  Speaker 2: line up and account for and say, Okay, we need
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  Speaker 2: to know where Malachi Tony is at every snap and
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  Speaker 2: be able to then handle what he's going to do
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  Speaker 2: or what they're going to try to do.
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  Speaker 3: To get him the football.
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  Speaker 2: Ohio States defense I think is equipped to handle and
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  Speaker 2: deal with that. And when that has been believe me,
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  Speaker 2: Malachite Tony is absolutely somebody that you should just be like,
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  Speaker 2: screw it, We're gonna find a way to get him
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  Speaker 2: the football because he is an absolute stud, freak of nature,
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  Speaker 2: absolutely deserves every touch he has gotten. But when that's
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  Speaker 2: what been what you've relied on, it's also you're now
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  Speaker 2: playing a team that has the ability and the capability
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  Speaker 2: to take that away. And when that's all you've known,
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  Speaker 2: I think that's a hard thing to go, Okay, now
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  Speaker 2: what because that ain't working at halftime?
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  Speaker 3: Like I just don't. I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I don't think that that bodes well for the Hurricanes.
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to hear your thoughts on the matchup. Who
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  Speaker 2: do you think wigs? Do you think that all four
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  Speaker 2: teams that got to buy like last year, go down.
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  Speaker 2: I'd love to hear your thoughts in the comments below
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  Speaker 2: about why you think Miami or Ohio State wins the
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  Speaker 2: Cotton Bowl on New Year's Eve. We'd love to read
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  Speaker 2: your thoughts drop them in the convents below. That'll do
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