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Everything Ryan Day Said About The Ohio State vs. Michigan Game · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to another of these special bonus episodes we're doing this week on the Buckeyes.
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  Tomorrow morning, feed can be letting you hear directly from the Buckeyes.
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  You heard from a bunch of Wolverines already this week. Now you're gonna be
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  hearing from Ryan Day, Ohio State's head coach. You had a lot to
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  say earlier in the week as we talked to him previewing this Ohio State Michigan
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  game. Let's start with just the importance of composure. There's going to be
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  a lot of emotion in that stadium on both sides of the field. There
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  always is for the Ohio State Michigan game. This year, all those knobs
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  are turned up to eleven or beyond. So how how much have they talked
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  to the guys on the team about keeping your composure, not responding when someone
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  else maybe takes a swing at you or shoves you, and you know,
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  maybe even being the second guy in who always is the one who gets caught.
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  Yeah, I think it's important. You have to play with emotion.
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  You can't let a motion play with you. I think that's important. You
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  have to have your emotions in check, which is an easy in a game
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  like this because as we all know, the magnitude of it all. But
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  it's something that you know, we identified in the offseason, so then we'll
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  talk about this week. College football teams will change a bunch over the course
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  of the season. Just think back to the Indiana game where the Buckeyes opened
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  the season and could barely get out of their own way in a twenty three
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  to three win over the Hoosiers. The offense has evolved quite a bit over
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  the course of the season, and that's especially true on the ground. That
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  run game has really changed for the better over the course of the year.
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  So when you're when you're figuring out what you what you want to do,
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  what, how how things work best for your offense? How do you figure
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  out what works best for you? Yeah, I'm gonna keep getting tested and
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  you know, but I feel like we've made some progress in different areas.
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  I think certainly Treya coming back has made a big impact on that. But
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  you know, everybody is involved with it, you know, and it's balanced.
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  But I think, you know, identifying each week what's uh worked for
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  us and what hasn't, you know, and fixing those things just over time,
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  getting better and I think the infusion of Trey has certainly helped. Kyle
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  McCord and JJ McCarthy, the two starting quarterbacks for Saturday's game, were both
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  members of the twenty twenty one recruiting class, and they both wanted to go
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  to Ohio State. Ultimately, Ryan Day decided that Kyle McCord is a better
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  fit for what the Pockkeeyes wanted and JJ McCarthy decided to go to Michigan.
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  That has worked out just fine for him since he left. So with this
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  being a little bit of a battle, a little bit of a head to
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  head thing where this was a major storyline while those guys are being recruited,
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  how do you keep Kyle McCord from trying to do too much to prove Ryan
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  Day right that he chose the right guy when the teams when the guy's face
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  off on Saturday. Oh. I think there's a lot going on here,
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  And I think what we've done all season is in preparation for this game.
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  The way that we've prepared, the way we've evaluated each game, the way
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  we've talked about each game, our focus in the off season, our focus
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  in the preseason, and our focused during the season. So you know,
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  like I told the guys on Sunday, we've been preparing for this moment all
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  year and so now we just need to continue on the routines that we've been
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  on and you know, be the best team we've been all season, but
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  at the same time, focusing on those things and it'll be the same for
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  Kyle. Ryan Day has been a part of the Ohio State coaching staff dating
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  back to twenty seventeen, but he did not grow up an Ohio State fan.
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  He grew up in New Hampshire and then lived a bunch of different places
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  around the country, but never lived in Ohio or Michigan until twenty seventeen,
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  when he took a job as an assistant under Ryan under Urban Meyer. So
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  when did Day finally really start to grasp the magnitude of this game and what
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  it means to the states of Ohio and Michigan for the first time. I
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  think every year you just learn more and more. I guess that this will
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  be my sixth time in the game, So you learn quickly when you're here,
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  but each year, you know, you learn more and it has more
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  of a significant impact on you as a as a person. And and I
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  think all of our guys when they come here, whether it's a coach or
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  a player, you know, they're here for one reason to win that game.
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  And so you know, and I guess you know, every year that
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  you're here, you learn, you learn about that more and more. But
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  you know, shoot, my youngest daughter doesn't know any other place out in
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  Ohio. So this this world means the world to me and my family.
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  Mentioned earlier the potential quarterback duel between McCarthy and McCord, which is happening on
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  the field on Saturday, but happened on the recruiting grounds back before the twenty
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  twenty one class signed. So when Ryan Day is recruiting quarterbacks, are there
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  certain things that he's looking for that separate guys? Yeah, oh yeah,
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  yeah. I mean it's not just one thing, but there's a lot that
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  you look at, you know, leadership, competitiveness, toughness, you know,
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  there's just so many things that you do and and you know, the
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  difficult thing now is recruiting starting recruiting at at younger ages, and you know,
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  certain guys are being evaluated as you know, freshman and sophomores, and
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  then you continue to evaluate. Then you have guys like Lincoln who you know,
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  we evaluated a senior year so and and then you try to compare the
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  best you can and but but there's not you know, one thing other than
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  you know, competitiveness is one that for sure is high on the list.
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  Brand has obviously spent a bunch of time with JJ McCarthy and his family over
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  the years as that recruiting process sort of shook out. So what does Dave
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  remember about recruiting JJ McCarthy and what led him to finally decide on Kyle McCord.
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  Ultimately, there's all kinds of things that lead lead into recruiting. And
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  now, I mean, you know, JJ was always great. He was
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  very respectful, He was a very competitive player, and you got a lot
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  of respect for him as a player and as a person. And you know,
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  and you know, during the recruiting you know cycle, you know,
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  you just you spend time with different people and different folks and you learn about
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  people. And again, all my interactions with he and his family were very
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  classy. You heard Day talking earlier about playing with emotion and not letting emotion
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  play with you. This is undoubtedly going to be a pretty emotional game for
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  Ryan Day as well. You were undoubtedly familiar with some of the things going
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  on around the Michigan program and how they may have impacted previous Ohio State Michigan
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  games. So you know, is this not a kind of a personal game
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  for Ryan Day this year? And if it is, how do you try
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  and set that aside? Yeah, because I think not that it's easy.
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  But the only thing that matters is this game, is this team is preparing.
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  The rest of it doesn't matter. So that's what we have to do.
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  We have got to stay disciplined enough to focus on that. And it
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  goes back to the conversation about emotion, you know, letting you know,
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  emotion of the game and everything get in the way. We can't do that.
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  And every year you learn more and more about this game and the preparation
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  for it. So we're not going to let any of that stuff getting our
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  way in terms of distractions. We're just going to focus on this team this
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  season and preparing the best we possibly can. We've been around Ryan Day at
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  press conferences and just in the facility often enough over the years. We kind
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  of have a sense for when he's in a good mood, when he's in
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  a bad mood, when he's maybe a little more uptight when he's a little
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  loose and relaxed going into the game. Last year, there were people who
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  thought maybe Ryan Day was a little more uptight before that Michigan game, and
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  then before the Peach Bowl against Georgia, it might have been a little loose.
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  So does Ryan Day feel like that might have been the case last year?
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  I think every year you evaluate what's going on and you try to do
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  the best you can to make sure that you fix the things that don't go
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  well and enhance the things that do go well. I think there was a
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  lot of things that went on, you know, in the game, looking
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  back on it, and so you learn from it and you move on.
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  This will be Kyle McCord's first start at Michigan Stadium and in the Ohio State
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  Michigan game, but it will not be the first time he makes us start
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  in a venue, historic, storied venue with a whole lot of very angry,
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  very loud, opposing fans filling it. He did play on the road
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  at Notre Dame in a tight, close game, picked up a win in
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  a really big environment. So how much does that having that in h you
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  know, under his belt and in his memory. How much does that help
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  for what he's going to face on Saturday in n Arbor. And you can
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  hear a quick follow up here as well. Yeah, anytime you have experience
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  and then a game like this, it makes a big difference. And it's
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  something a goal back upon, which is good. He's a very smart player
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  who you know, understands situations and when you've been in type those type of
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  situations before, you have something to grab onto and refer to, when you
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  have a reference point, And I think that all helps in preparation go through
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  that. Yeah, just just watching him play and and and you know doing
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  it and learning about you know, the things that he you know, excel
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  at the Ohio State Michigan rivalry has always been built on respect. Would he
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  and Bow They may not have liked each other one Saturday in November, but
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  they were close friends. They were former colleagues, They got along just fine.
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  And after what he was out of his job, Bo did some off
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  field events with Woody. They were really truly good friends. So in a
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  rivalry with has historically been built on respect, that might not really be the
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  case anymore. If you listen to the coaches talk about each other or not
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  talk about each other this week. You know, does that make Ryan Day
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  sad? Does it make him energize? What does he think about that?
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  I think, you know, I was taught that, you know, the
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  way you expect their rivalries to work it every day, and whether it's in
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  the you know, the weight room, whether it's you know, game planning,
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  you know, talking to your players, you know, periods in practice
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  in the you know, during the spring, periods in practice in the preseason.
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  And and that's it. And so you know, we do we respect
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  the rivalry and and you know, certainly excited to play here on Saturday.
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  This Ohio State team is undefeated. They're eleven to zero. They've won every
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  game at home, but they've also won every game on the road, and
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  they've been challenged on the road and overcome that. And Day has called this
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  team road warriors in the past. So is this a team that plays well
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  away from home? And if it is, what does that mean for Saturday?
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  Well? Yeah, and you know, we have the schedule right over
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  there, and I point to you know, all those white you know blocks
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  right there. The teams we knew we had to go on the road this
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  season more than we had in the past, and certainly knew we had to
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  go on the road for this one. So like I said before, it's
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  all on preparation for the for the last game of the year, and so
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  it's been great to get tested, to get battle tested. So again you
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  talk about like, you know, reference point, You know, our team
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  does have a reference point. It'll be loud, it'll be you know,
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  hostile, great environment, but we've been in those before and so again a
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  reference point going into the game is important. There are a million different things
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  that could decide this game between the Duck Eyes and Wolverines. Could be turnovers,
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  could be special teams, could be red zone execution. The Buck Eye
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  have not always been great in the red zone on offense. They know they're
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  going to need sevens and not threes on Saturday. So what does it take
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  to execute in the red zone against the defense as good as Michigan has been
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  down there, Well, first off, they haven't had very many snaps down
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  there, so you know, there's not a ton to go off of.
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  But you know you got to you know, every yard is worth two or
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  three down there, and you know you got to do a great job execution.
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  You know, the field gets smaller. You know, we call it
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  the twelve defenders at end line, and so you just got to operate in
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  a smaller area and so you got to be efficient. But that'll be another
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  situation that'll be huge in the game, you know, those four point plays
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  where you're the kicking field goals of scoring touchdowns on both sides of the ball.
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  This was an interesting follow up to one of the questions mentioned earlier,
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  how about how the rivalry has always been heated, but there's always been a
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  respect between the players. This was Rob Baller asked Brian day Real directly.
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  Do you have respect for Jim Harbaugh and his staff? I think, you
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  know, with everything going on and the things you know that are out there,
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  we just kind of stayed away from all the distractions we have, you
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  know, and just focused on our team. And I think our guys have
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  done a good job of it. You know. I think you know,
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  when you talk to our guys, you know, I've talked to them a
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  couple of times about you know, what's going on this season and going into
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  the game, but you know, they're they're focused on this this game,
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  They're focused on the season, they're focused on their preparation and and we're just
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  going to continue on that. The Buck guys and Wolverines can practice as much
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  as they want, they can watch as much film as they want. And
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  it sounds like they are practicing and watching a ton of film. So that's
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  great. That's all well and good. You work the game plan all week
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  long. But how important is it when when all the work is done,
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  for the guys to go out there and just play fast and lose and not
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  be overthinking and playing tight. Yeah, that's it. You know, it's
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  our job to give them a good plan, let them go play and and
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  you know, then they can go out there and you know, compete at
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  the high level, and that that's what you want as a coach. So
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  you know, we got to have a good scheme. We've got to do
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  a great job with that. But at the same time, you know,
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  we got to allow them to go play and and that's that's what it comes
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  down to. Him big games and it's going to be four quarters, it's
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  gonna be a battle. And you know, the good news is, again
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  this is something we've been preparing for all year. You have seen Ryan Day
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  really let loose on the sideline a few times over the course of the year.
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  You saw it during the postgame interview against Notre Dame. You've seen it
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  on the sideline from time to time. How does Day sort of pick and
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  choose his spots, let loose a little bit or does that sort of does
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  does his brain just sort of make those decisions for Yeah, I think you
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  know, you have to know your team, You have to know what you're
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  you know what's going on each week. You know, sometimes it just pours
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  out. Other times, you know, you feel like you got to give
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  it your guys a little something, but you also want consistency. But you
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  know, the guys in the locker room know how competitive we all are and
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  how competitive I am. So but like you said, you have to keep
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  your emotions in check, and that's going to be you know, starting from
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  the head down. It's going to start from me. You know, we
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  have to go in there and execute at a high level and handle the environment.
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  If you watch the Michigan State Michigan game last year, you are aware
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  of the issues involving Michigan's Stadium. Michigan Stadium's tunnel, there's only one tunnel
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  there. Both teams share the same tunnel as they go to take the field,
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  and it is a pretty narrow one. In spots you're going to have
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  people passing in pretty close quarters, if not passing, basically brushing past each
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  other at spots in that tunnel. So how do you handle things to avoid
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  issues and not have fights, pushing, punching, whatever in that tunnel before
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  the game, at halftime or after the game. Yeah, we've had conversations
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  already. They've been you know, folks have been talking about it here for
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  a couple of weeks and put some good plans together again to make sure that
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  we can focus on what matters, and that's getting on the field and playing
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  football. This will be the fourth Ohio State Michigan game that Ryan Day has
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  coached. Of course, there was not one in twenty twenty. He won
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  in twenty nineteen, he lost in twenty twenty one, he lost in twenty
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  twenty two. Now twenty twenty three will be his fourth game as Ohio said
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  ted coach facing the Wolverines, as he spent any time reflecting on how the
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  Buckeyes have prepared for those previous games and if there are lessons to be learned
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  from that, Yeah, I think you look at that in the off season,
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  for sure, you just dive in and you try to identify. Okay,
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  let's talk about everything. Let's talk about the scheme, let's talk about
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  the preparation, let's talk about you know, leading up to the game.
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  Let's talk about all of those things. And then you try to identify,
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  so what exactly happened in the game, and then you learn from there and
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  you grow from there and you make adjustments from there, and then that's kind
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  of how you shape your season, you know, that's how you shape your
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  off season. And then you learn about your team. You know, you
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  learn about you know, there's a lot of information that comes in during the
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  season, and you grow from there and you build from there, you know,
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  on preparation for this one. So yeah, you certainly look at all
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  those things. But at this point, you know, a lot of those
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  decisions have been made. This is kind of the last year of college football
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  as we know it. Lots of conference realignment, the expansion from four teams
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  to twelve teams for the College Football Playoff. There's gonna be a lot changing
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  next year. So is it possible that the game might not have quite as
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  much on the line this time next year? Yeah? I don't know if
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  if that'll be the case. I'm sure there will always be just as much
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  on the line when when these two teams play, and you know, certainly
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  it'll be different, but you know, I don't think it'll change anything just
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  on the format. You know it's always going to be this way, and
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  you know the format certainly will change next year, But I don't think the
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  rival will ever be anything less than it is right now. The Ohio State
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  Michigan game is pretty much always one in the trenches. If you're old enough,
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  you can probably remember Whitody and Bow talking about that. If you're a
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  little younger, you might remember Earl Bruce and Bow talking about that, or
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  John Cooper and Lloyd Carr talking about that, or Jim Tressel and also Lloyd
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  Carr talking about that. Urban Meyer Brady Hoag. Year after year, coaches
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  changed, decades change. The game is one in the trenches. It is
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  the ultimate test of the offensive line. So what is Ryan Day's level of
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  confidence in the Buckeye's offensive line and their growth and progression throughout the year.
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  You're seeing improvement every week. You're seeing the group that works together, You're
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  seeing progressions. You know, individually and as a unit, and so you
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  know they're going to do a great job today. I'm getting out there on
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  a Tuesday practice and working at their craft and preparing to go play at a
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  high level and then go compete for four quarters. But like you said,
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  you know, week in a week out, you know, we come in,
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  we talk about the progress in different areas. I think you've seen it
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  in that area. So I think they're confidence is how as it's been all
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  season. There is not much question that when Ohio State has fallen short in
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  the last couple of years, it has generally been the defense that has been
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  to blame. That was true in the twenty twenty season, That was true
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  in the twenty twenty one season, it was true in the twenty twenty two
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  season. This year, though, this year, the defense has been holding
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  up its end of the bargain and then some. The Buckeyes ranked among the
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  top teams in the nation in virtually every major statistical category on defense. So
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  how excited is Ryan Day to see this defense on the field after the last
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  couple of years, to see what it looks like in this game, which
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  is really the ultimate measuring stick for an Ohio State team. Yeah, No,
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  it's again same thing, you know, just adjustments need to be made,
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  you know, not just this year, the year before as well,
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  and so you know, here we are got to go put on the field.
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  But again, I think you're going to see a confident group going out
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  there. There's been a lot of growth and development development from this Ohio State
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  team over the course of the season. Talked about the offensive line earlier,
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  talked about the defense earlier. What about Kyle McCord he what has his development
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  been over the course of the year. What has Ryan Day seen from him
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  and his growth even going back to the start of the quarterback competition at the
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  beginning of the year. Yeah, Now you see him excuting plays. You
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  see it in practice and then it carries over to the field and that's what
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  you want. Now, ultimately, we got to take care of football,
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  win a game. That's the bottom line here. And you know, good
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  news is he's got a great group around him and he's been in these environments
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  before, so a lot of things in his favor going into the game.
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  But now he's got to go put on the field. Ohio stayed in Michigan.
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  Both entered this game at eleven and Oher, and neither of them have
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  played a whole lot of close games. The Buckuys have certainly had a couple
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  that were interesting into the fourth quarter, Notre Dame obviously being the one that
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  was truly interesting. Michigan has really only had a little kind of pen stayed
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  into the second half, and Marylyn last week was kind of close into the
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  second half. But neither team has had a lot of those games this year.
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  So how much of this weekend's game is going to be figuring out who
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  you truly are in a close game? Ah? I mean, I feel
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  like we've you know, we've been tested at different times this year. You
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  know, with the growth of the quarterback. We've been in you know,
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  games at halftime where we were winning. We've been you know, in games
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  where you know, it's been close. We've been games we've been losing so
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  we had to win game in the fourth quarter. We've had games where we've
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  you know, pulled away from teams. So, I mean, I think
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  I think we've learned a lot about this team. I think they're again a
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  more mature and veteran team than in the past they've played. Many of these
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  guys have played in this game before, So you know, I feel like
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  I have a good feel for who we are and who our identity is.
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  Coaches always talk about wanting to play their best football in November. November is
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  for contenders, as Jim Tressel used to say when he was the head coach
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  of the Buck Eye. So what do you actually have to do to get
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  that to happen? To be playing your best football when you really can?
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  And does that is that up to the coaches? Is that up to the
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  players? How does how does that actually happen? I think you look at
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  the routine. I think that's that's something you grab onto in big weeks,
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  and that's why you set routines. That's why we talk to our team about
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  routines and and that's you know, in big games, that's what you grab
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  on to to make sure you you stay on that routine, you know,
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  And it's it's a productive process to make sure you're covering everything you need to
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  cover in terms of preparation. And again, you know, we've had great
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  opportunities to take a look and see how things have gone down, why they've
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  gone down, and regroup every season and try to identify the things that we
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  got to improve at So you know, it's been This has been a great
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  group to build with. They're a great group to coach, and you know,
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  we're going to have another great week of practice right now, and I
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  can't wait to see these guys plan on Saturday. For almost two decades,
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  it was taken as just about a given that an Ohio State senior would leave
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  Ohio State with at least four and maybe five pairs of gold pants for beating
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  Michigan. Well, only a handful of guys on this year's team have any
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  gold pants at all. They have the buck. Guys have not beaten Michigan
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  since twenty nineteen. Twenty twenty, of course, there was no game and
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  then two losses in a row. So now how different is the feel around
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  this program this week with very few guys having beaten the Wolverines before as compared
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  to before where it was taken as almost a guarantee that Ohio State was going
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  to be Michigan. I don't know. I mean, I think it's a
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  good question, but you know, we take every year as it is and
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  go from there. But no, there's there's guys with with scars, you
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  know, and you know on one of them and and so it just drives
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  you every day to work harder and to make sure you do everything you possibly
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  can to win the game. There is a lot on the line this weekend.
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  I'm sure we don't need to go through all of it, but the
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  Big Ten East title, the chance to playing the Big Ten Championship game,
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  a chance to remaining the top four of the college football playoff rankings, a
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  chance to continue put fighting for the national championship, and all the off field
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  stuff, the general bragging rights, all of that and much much more.
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  There is so much on the line, but is it is it also kind
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  of freeing for Jim, for Jim Harbaugh and Ryan Day to know this is
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  just this is a just win baby game. All you got to do is
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  win and that's it. No style points necessary. Yeah, we say in
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  those matchup games it could come down to one play, and we have to
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  play those games that way. We've been a couple of those this season that
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  we talk about those games, not that any game is any different, but
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  you just you know, it could come down to one play and you've got
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  to be on your game and you got to win the situations. Well,
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  we will be back with another episode of Buckeyes tomorrow morning. Coming up tomorrow,
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  and of course we'll have more of these bonus episodes sort of sprinkled throughout
• 23:23
  the day. Let you hear from some of the Buckeyes, get a little
• 23:26
  more detail on this, because we know you're traveling a lot of time in
• 23:29
  the car, a lot of time sitting around with relatives and all that fun
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  stuff, and of course you're kind of watching the clock as well, waiting
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  for the game to show up start at noon on Saturday, televised on Fox.
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  We will be there. Make sure you're subscribed to our YouTube channel at
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  YouTube dot com slash Buckeye Huddle. I have a bunch of coverage from up
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  in Michigan starting on Friday, and then of course you usual postgame coverage.
• 23:52
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  To be a lot of coverage, have plenty of stuff to talk about
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  all week long at dot com slash bucke Huddle and of course 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 every good day. We'll talk to you tomorrow. M