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What Ohio State and Notre Dame Should Worry About Before the Championship Game · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, January eighteenth, I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, tom Or the National Championship game against Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame in two days, the game against Michigan in three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and fifteen days. Our Buckeye Huddle team is in
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  Speaker 1: Atlanta right now. We put together a three hour live
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  Speaker 1: show starting with the Buckeyes departing from Columbus, including Notre
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  Speaker 1: Dame's team arrival, a short press conference with head coach
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  Speaker 1: Marcus Freeman, and then Ohio State's team arrival, and a
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  Speaker 1: short press conference with Ohio State head coach Ryan Day.
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  Speaker 1: That is all going to be in the Buckeye Weekly
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  Speaker 1: I pontificating about this game and answering viewer questions and
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  Speaker 2: All that there.
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  Speaker 1: I also wanted to share in this feed a really
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  Speaker 1: interesting episode from Garrett Seawright on the Daily Huddle College
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  Speaker 1: Football podcast feed. Garrett took a look at the one
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  Speaker 1: thing that Ohio State and Notre Dame should each be
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  Speaker 1: worried about before the championship game. Garrett does a great
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  Speaker 1: job on that show. Always enjoy listening to his stuff
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  Speaker 3: We are in chin closer and closer to the National
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  Speaker 3: Championship game, and I think both Notre Dame and Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State should feel really confident and good about their chances
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  Speaker 3: of taking home the Gold Trophy because each I think,
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  Speaker 3: have multiple pathways to victory in this game. But on
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  Speaker 3: the other side of that, I think both teams have
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  Speaker 3: to be worried about one really.
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  Speaker 2: Big specific thing.
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  Speaker 3: For Ohio State, I think they have to be concerned
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  Speaker 3: about the style that Notre Dame plays, because when you
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  Speaker 3: go back and look at the teams that Ryan Day
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  Speaker 3: has lost to as Ohio States head coach, and especially
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  Speaker 3: maybe the more high pro file losses like against Michigan,
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  Speaker 3: their losses come to teams who are very physical, control
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  Speaker 3: the lot of scrimmage, control the football, and try to
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  Speaker 3: make Ohio States offense sit on the bench. And that
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  Speaker 3: is kind of what Notre Dame excels at this year.
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  Speaker 3: It's a lot, for lack of a better term, ball
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  Speaker 3: control offense. Their defense forces turnovers, which at times Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State has been susceptible to commit, but they win the
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  Speaker 3: point of attack. That is how they have been successful
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  Speaker 3: since they lost in Northern Illinois. They play a physical
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  Speaker 3: brand of football. They run the football, throw when they
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  Speaker 3: have to, and then defensively stiffen their backs, rush the passer,
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  Speaker 3: force turnovers to set their offense up with short fields.
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  Speaker 3: That's the name of their game. And if you were
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  Speaker 3: to draw a blueprint of how to beat Ohio State,
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  Speaker 3: I think that's it. I think it's we're gonna run
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  Speaker 3: the ball. We're not going to put ourselves in a
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  Speaker 3: situation where Jack Sawyer and J. T. Twey mooloou come
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  Speaker 3: off the edge in obvious third down passing situations, and
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  Speaker 3: our defense puts our offense in really good positions. Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State's biggest loss this year outside of the lost to
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  Speaker 3: Oregon where you lose by one point on the road,
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  Speaker 3: they lost to a Michigan squad who was good on
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  Speaker 3: the defensive interior, set their offense up for short fields.
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  Speaker 2: And won the point of attack.
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  Speaker 3: And so Notre Dame has kind of been a Michigan
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  Speaker 3: light in that category where they're not as bully ball
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  Speaker 3: also to speak, like the Wolverines were last year. But
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  Speaker 3: it's not far away from that. It's not far off
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  Speaker 3: from Hey, this is what we want to do. This
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  Speaker 3: is our identity, this is who we are, and we
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  Speaker 3: know that our opponent knows that about us. And yet
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  Speaker 3: we're still going to show up and that's the brand
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  Speaker 3: of football we're gonna play. And so I think there
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  Speaker 3: has to be some concern for Ohio State that if
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  Speaker 3: you get into a low scoring ball control Notre Dame
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  Speaker 3: doesn't snap the ball until there's five seconds on the
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  Speaker 3: play clock type of game. In my opinion, I think
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  Speaker 3: that's gonna favor Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 2: Now.
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  Speaker 3: On the flip side, for the Irish, I don't think
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  Speaker 3: they've been tested on the outside. In the College Football Playoff,
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  Speaker 3: Indiana tries to get the football to the outside, but
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  Speaker 3: it's not down the field. Curtis Rourke was hindered in
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  Speaker 3: that game for Indiana against the flyting Irish, so they
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  Speaker 3: didn't really have the ability to.
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  Speaker 2: Get the football to the outside.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't have the football to they didn't have the
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  Speaker 3: ability to drive the football downfield, and that'll put Notre
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  Speaker 3: Dame in a position defensively to play to its strengths.
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  Speaker 3: It's pretty similar for Georgia with their backup quarterback getting
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  Speaker 3: his first career start, and they don't have the ability
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  Speaker 3: to drive.
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  Speaker 2: The football down the field.
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  Speaker 3: They don't have the ability to get the football to
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  Speaker 3: their playmakers outside funnels everything in the middle of the field,
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  Speaker 3: which is where Notre Dame is at their best.
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  Speaker 2: And then you get to Penn State.
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  Speaker 3: Their wide receivers did not catch a ball, did not
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  Speaker 3: catch the football. Drew Aller threw the ball to backs
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  Speaker 3: out of the backfield and their tight end. They did
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  Speaker 3: not get tested on the outside in their three games
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  Speaker 3: coming into the National Championship game.
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  Speaker 2: They just didn't. Now that's not to knock Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 3: It's not to say that their path was simple to
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  Speaker 3: get here or anything like that. They've won three games
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  Speaker 3: to get to the National Championship geting just like Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State did. They had challenges, they had adversity they had
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  Speaker 3: to fight through. They had their backs pushed up against
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  Speaker 3: the wall. But they didn't face somebody like Jeremiah Smith.
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  Speaker 3: They didn't face somebody like a Mechagg Buca. They didn't
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  Speaker 3: face really a quarterback who can get the ball to
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  Speaker 3: the outside down the field like Will Howard has Cannon does,
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  Speaker 3: and so that has to, I think, be a concern
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  Speaker 3: for a Notre Dame going into Monday's game.
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  Speaker 2: They have to be concerned about one.
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  Speaker 3: Their secondary has been somewhat decimated by injury throughout the
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  Speaker 3: course of the season. Now their replacements have played at
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  Speaker 3: a really high level, and they should be really really
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  Speaker 3: thrilled with that that they have depth at a really
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  Speaker 3: important position. But at some point, I guess, I just
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  Speaker 3: think if you are are your reliant on enforcing turnovers,
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  Speaker 3: at some point that's just not gonna be there for you.
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  Speaker 3: At some point you're gonna play somebody who knows coming
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  Speaker 3: into the game, I can't put the ball in danger,
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  Speaker 3: I can't play into Notre Dame's hand, and it's gonna
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  Speaker 3: be talented enough, smart enough and equipped enough to say,
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  Speaker 3: I'm just not going to give Notre Dame the ball.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not going to be the reason we lose the game.
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  Speaker 3: It's somewhat similar, I think to teams that you know
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  Speaker 3: you live by the three, you die by the three
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  Speaker 3: in basketball, you shoot a bunch of threes, sometimes it's
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  Speaker 3: just not going to be there for you. And I
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  Speaker 3: think it's somewhat similar to that in football, when you're
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  Speaker 3: so reliant on set your offense up with short fields
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  Speaker 3: by turning the ball over, and if you don't have
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  Speaker 3: the playmakers outside to combat Ohio State's playmakers, because it's
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  Speaker 3: going to be a somewhat whole different level than what
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  Speaker 3: Penn State brought to the table, than what Indiana brought
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  Speaker 3: to the table, than what Georgia brought to the table.
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  Speaker 3: Notre Dame was I'm hesitant to say this. Notre Dame
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  Speaker 3: was lucky that they played the teams that they did.
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  Speaker 3: When they did that, they got an Indiana team. Now
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  Speaker 3: I'm not saying because I would have picked Notre Dame
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  Speaker 3: to beat Georgia if Carson Beck played. They played in Indiana
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  Speaker 3: with a hampered quarterback, They played Georgia with their backup quarterback,
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  Speaker 3: and then they played in the semi final. A quarterback
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  Speaker 3: who can't get the ball outside, who throws the ball
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  Speaker 3: inside the numbers and inside the hashes. It just doesn't
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  Speaker 3: throw the ball downfield, doesn't throw the ball outside the numbers.
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  Speaker 2: Higher State isn't that.
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  Speaker 3: And so I think when you're playing at some positions,
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  Speaker 3: backups or maybe guys that you didn't expect to play
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  Speaker 3: as big of a role as they have this year,
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  Speaker 3: coupled with really talented players and an offense who is
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  Speaker 3: not afraid to throw the ball downfield or not afraid
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  Speaker 3: to throw the ball outside outside the numbers fifteen to
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  Speaker 3: twenty yards down the field, it might be a bad combo.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a bad combo for Ohio State too. Hey,
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  Speaker 3: Notre Dame plays a style that we maybe don't match
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  Speaker 3: up with well, you know, the old styles make fights.
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  Speaker 3: It's not a style I think Ohio State wants to play.
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  Speaker 3: On the flip side, Ohio State doesn't play a style
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  Speaker 3: Notre Dame is going to match up really well with either,
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  Speaker 3: And maybe they will. Maybe they they just haven't matched
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  Speaker 3: up well or haven't been forced to match up with
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  Speaker 3: a style like Ohio State on the outside. So it's
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  Speaker 3: one concern on each side that I think has to
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  Speaker 3: keep Ryan Day up at night and has to keep
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  Speaker 3: Marcus Freeman up at night to go, how in the
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  Speaker 3: hell do we make sure that this isn't the one thing.
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  Speaker 2: That beats us?
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  Speaker 3: And I think it's something to watch for on Monday night.
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  Speaker 3: That'll do it for today's episode of The Daily Huddle.
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