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Total Eclipse in Ohio: Will The Buckeyes Eclipse Previous Records In 2024? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Monday Aprilates, I'm your host, tom or
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  the Akron game in one hundred and forty five days the game against Michigan in
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  two hundred and thirty six days. Monday is a rather remarkable day in the
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  state of Ohio. For the first time since eighteen o six, three years
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  after the founding of the state and Tony Gerdaman sophomore year at Ohio State,
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  for the first time since eighteen oh six, the state of Ohio is going
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  to be seeing a total solar eclipse on Monday. Pretty big deal. People
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  are going all over the place and going a little nuts. That's okay.
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  We're going to try and keep it a little more topical here, but still
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  kind of on topic with the eclipse. We are you talking about Ohio State
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  players who have a chance to eclipse, get it? Get it? The
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  marks records, et cetera that have been set as sort of the standard Buckeys
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  who have a chance to eclipse those marks coming up later this year. Let's
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  bring in Tony Gerdaman of buckey Huddle dot com to answer some questions. Tony,
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  let's start with this one. Well, first of all, you get
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  it clips get it? Yes, because of the sun thing, Tony,
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  Yes, Yes, okay good. I was worried you weren't gonna have to
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  get it, and I was gonna have to spell it out further. But
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  here we go, Tony. Over the last ten years, the most times
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  the Buck Guys have had two running backs each run for one hundred yards or
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  more in the same game. Two running backs in the same game running for
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  one hundred yards each was two back in twenty twenty two, Cravan Henderson and
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  Mine and Williams Still did it against Wisconsin, Mine Williams and Dell and Hayden
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  did it against Indiana. Tony Well, Ohio State eclipse that mark this year
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  by having running backs two running backs run for one hundred yards each in a
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  game three times or more. I will accept total eclipse as an answer if
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  they're going to do it three times or more, or partial eclipse if they're
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  going to do it exactly two times. For this jeopardy, I have to
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  like phrase the answer correctly, Tom, I will say, begrudgingly, a
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  little hatefully. Total eclipse, I too, seems pretty low. I was
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  a little surprised when you just mentioned it. It's only two again, get
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  more games this season. I think the running, the running attack will be
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  better. If you go back to the last time Ohio State had a quarterback
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  that could run or would run, twenty nineteen and twenty twenty, they led
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  the Big ten and rushing by a wide margin. So I think they'll get
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  back to some of that and maybe tom maybe we'll even get the Travan Henderson
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  Dallan Hayden connection that we have not did not get in twenty twenty two.
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  But this seems pretty safe to me. I feel not that eclipses are safe.
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  We know they're dangerous, very very a lot of superstition there, and
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  who knows what's going on behind the sun. We don't know, But this
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  feels like a safe total eclipse for me. So yeah, it does feel
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  like they're gonna at least at least match that this year. Just because you
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  got Trevian Henderson, you get quinch On Judkins, They're gonna split the carries.
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  They're both guys who can pop off a big run that gets you a
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  lot of the way there. Yeah, I'm with you. Feel it feels
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  like they're at least gonna match and possibly exceed that now if you include quarterbacks.
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  Had they did it three times in twenty fifteen, that was each time
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  was JT. Barrett and Ezekiel Elliott. And they did it four times in
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  twenty thirteen, that was Carlos Hyde and Braxton Miller each time. But to
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  do it with two running backs and not with a quarterback being one of those
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  guys, that's a little more difficult for them to do historically speaking. But
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  having a running quarterback might open up some things in the run game for the
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  running backs as well, So we will see. I forgot to look.
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  I think the last time they had three running three players run for one hundred
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  yards. I think they might have done that in twenty eleven. That was
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  one of those things that I probably should have looked up and then didn't.
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  But yeah, all right, so we're we're betting the over there if we
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  will on that one, all right, Tony Chris Carter as a true freshman
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  in nineteen eighty four forty one catches six hundred and forty eight yards eight touchdowns.
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  By the way, if you go and look this up on like Sports
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  Reference, those are not going to be the numbers that actually show up because
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  back then Bowl game stats did not count towards your actual you know, did
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  not count towards your season totals. So you're gonna look and you're gonna say,
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  those idiots, why do they have bigger numbers than it says here?
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  That's why. So Chris Carter forty one catches six and forty eight yards eight
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  touchdowns is a true freshman? Tony Jeremiah J. J. Smith will he
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  fully or partially eclipse each of those three numbers this year? Tom, I
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  feel like Columbus, Ohio is in the path of totality on this one.
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  And it's again, it's not safe to say this. It is not it's
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  not cool to be throwing this kind of these kind of expectations on a true
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  freshman. But as we've said before, this is his fault, this is
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  not our fault. We're just reacting to what has been happening and what we're
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  seeing and what we're being told. And feels like the forty one catches that
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  to me, that to me, strangely, feels like the most difficult target
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  in this But I until until I see otherwise in the little that I've seen,
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  I'm gonna have to go with outrageous expectations until I am proven the otherwise.
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  I am going to stick with the total eclipse on this one, and
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  you can try to talk me out of it. Maybe after a maybe,
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  after a drop in the spring game, I will back off. We're gonna
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  get to see him and the rest of the team at practice on Friday and
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  then at the spring game on Saturday, So we're gonna have a lot more
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  information a week from now than we do at the moment. But yeah,
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  between what we've been hearing and what we've seen in our limited opportunities this spring,
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  I am kind of grudgingly going along there with you. I think the
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  odds that he hits all three of those and exceeds all three of those,
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  that feels not too likely to meet. I don't know which one I feel
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  like is. I can kind of talk myself into any individual one of those,
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  being like, well, that's probably gonna be the one that he doesn't
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  hit. You know, to exceed eight touchdowns as a true freshman, that's
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  a lot to exceed forty one catches a true freshman, that's a lot,
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  you know, six hundred and forty eight. It's obviously the record for a
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  true freshman at Ohio State. That strangely, I think to me feels like
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  the one that's most likely to fall the yardage total, then maybe the touchdowns,
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  and then the catches. But I don't know that I'm comfortable betting against
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  him on any of those. And you know, maybe the touchdowns push and
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  that makes it makes it not quite as you know, not a completely totally
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  one record breaking through freshman year. But you know, if if he breaks
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  forty one catches and breaks six hundred and forty eight yards and only Tony gets
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  eight touchdowns, that's ye know, that's that's not bad, I guess.
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  I mean at the at the level of you know, that expectations continue to
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  be increasing for him, at the rate at which they continue to be increasing,
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  that might be considered a you know, disappointing season by some people.
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  That would be a pretty good season. We will see. All right,
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  let's switch sides to the ball to the defense. Now, Tony Ohio State
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  had seven interceptions in twenty twenty three, tied for one hundred and twelfth in
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  the country. They had eleven interceptions in twenty twenty two, tied for fifty
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  first in the country. Those are the two years of the Jim Noles defense.
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  I'm going to ask you, seven is incredibly low, eleven is really
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  average. Funny. I'm going to ask you to put those two together.
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  Eighteen interceptions the first two years of the Jim Knowles defense. Will they eclipse
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  eighteen interceptions this year? Bearing in mind number one, they get everyone back
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  on defense, and number two, they are probably playing several more games than
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  they have the previous couple of years. Yeah, with the idea that all
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  of these numbers all came from twelve, thirteen, fourteen game schedules, some
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  eleven game schedules. This being a sixteen possibly sixteen game schedule, seventeen game
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  schedule, you feel like you just kind of shoot for the moon. Tom,
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  I don't get it. Don't notice tell me on this eclipse stuff now,
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  after what you've been asking me to do here. So the in eighteen
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  interceptions, they've done that before, and I think twenty sixteen. They were
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  in the twenties, I think. And of course it helps when you've got
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  Molie Cooker to be able to do something like that eighteen interceptions. These things
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  also come in waves. And I don't know that I don't know if the
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  big ten quarterbacks are all that great, so maybe maybe they'll get some there,
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  and certainly they're not playing anything on the in the non conference, so
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  oh eighteen, Well, I'm sure you're not going to hit this exactly.
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  So it's either no eclipse or total eclipse, because I don't expect you to
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  be right on it. But I also don't like just saying oh, oh
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  oh, total eclips, total eclipse, total eclipse, and now Tom the
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  word has lost all meeting and your show sticks m I. Eighteen does not
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  seem like a lot. That's barely one a game, But I will say
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  I'm gonna say no eclipse. Turns out the weathermen were wrong. Take that
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  astronomers. Yeah, it is the last time Ohio State got even close to
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  that was fifteen back in twenty nineteen, and in twenty sixteen they did have
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  twenty one, so that's the last time they did eclipse that mark. So
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  yeah, I think that's going to be challenging to get there. Tony as
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  a hater again only thinking they're going to play thirteen games. I mean,
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  listen, I didn't say it, he did rewind it. Go ahead,
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  download the show again and make sure I was telling the truth there. Yeah,
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  I think that's going to be challenging to get there. Would probably say
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  less than fifty percent that they that they match or exceed that mark. Here's
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  another one that's challenging Tony. Last year, the defense allowed eleven point two
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  points per game. That was second in the nation, but would have been
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  good for first in the nation in a lot of recent years. Will Ohio
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  State's defense eclipse that, allowing fewer than a left point two points per game
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  this year. That's that's a tough one because the schedule, again the non
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  conference is not very good. But it's not like Notre Dame lit them up
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  last year. That's just a very low number, and I don't know that
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  you can expect to be lower than that. Again, I don't expect them
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  to be right at it either. That would be even more odd. But
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  the defense, by everybody's account, should be better. I mean, you've
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  got Caleb Downs coming in the defensive line. Everybody is very very motivated.
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  Everybody's a year older, year better. There is talent everywhere. Brian Day
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  is expecting a better defense, Jim Knowles is expecting a better defense. So
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  if this is a better defense but they give up fewer points per game,
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  I mean that math doesn't make sense to me. So I guess based on
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  that, And I don't know the last time they were lower than this,
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  maybe two thousand and seven they had like the nation's tops scoring defense. But
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  you sew what happened in the end the BCS title game that year. So
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  eleven point two? Is that what you said? Tom? Eleven point two?
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  Yes, man, And I will remind you you are under oath.
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  I know, I know, And Uh, I'm gonna say no eclipse because
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  you know why, Tom, at least uh, they'll probably get there.
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  They're going to give up a touchdown or so every game I think from the
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  second team defense, and in terms of not every game, but the second
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  team defense is going to give up some points because I think they're going to
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  be out there quite a bit in the fourth quarter. So I will say
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  no eclipse again, will not happen? All right? So last year,
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  do you know there was only one team that gave up fewer points than them?
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  They gave up ten point four points per game. Do you know who
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  which team that was? That would be the Michigan Wolverines. It was the
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  Mission and Wolverine's ten point four that was good for number one in the nation
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  last year, Tony, do you know the last time a team in the
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  United States of America in Football Bowl Subdivision gave up fewer than ten points per
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  game? I do not would have been a knick Staban defense. It would
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  have been a knick Staban defense eight point two points in two thousand and eleven.
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  That was the year that they played the nine to six game against LSU
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  in the regular season and then didn't let LSU get across the fifty yard line
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  in the National Championship. So I was going to ask you if they were
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  going to eclipse that. Unfortunately, you disappointed me and said that no,
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  they weren't going to do these other earlier one So that's fine. Let's see
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  if you can end on a positive note here, Tony currnt record in Ohio
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  State football history is three postseason games in one season, Tony, Do the
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  Ohio State Buckeyes eclipse their previous record by playing four or more season games including
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  the Big Ten championship game and College Football playoffs? Yeah? I do.
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  I keep calling this a sixteen game season, so I sorry, totally clips,
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  Tom. I believe that the moon will move in front of the sun
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  completely in direct eyesight and a line of sight with us. So I do
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  expect more than three playoff games postseason games, and I'm not expecting that to
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  be a first round game somewhere, like I'm expecting the buy in there.
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  So yes, Tom, I think I think four is the target. That's
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  what I've been operating on. That's why I'm going over on all of these
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  things. Where that's right, I'm going totally clips on so many of these
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  numbers. Is because I believe that they will play sixteen games this year.
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  Well you heard it here. First, save the those eclipse glasses. You
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  may need them for this fall. Ohio State football going to be eclipsing a
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  lot of previous marks unless Tony's wrong, which I mean that probably also hasn't
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  happened since eighteen oh six, So you have that to look forward to this
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  fall. We appreciate you sticking with us through you know, Tony's commitment to
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  the BIT. We appreciate your commitment to us and to this show. We
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  appreciate your commitment to us at Buckeye Huddle dot com, where we have many
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  of our wonderful listeners and viewers. Here are also members there. We would
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  love to see you there, if you're not already a member. It is
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  a fantastic place to tac Ohio State football and what should be a very very
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  special and memorable season certainly shaping up that way. We're gonna have plenty of
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  coverage of the Buckeyes down the home stretch of spring football this week, heading
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  into Saturday spring game at Ohio Stadium take off at noon on Fox. We
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  will be there. We'll have all sorts of coverage, plenty of stuff to
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  talk about, plenty of stuff to discuss and learn, and then we'll have
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  a whole fun summer of anticipation as a head into this to the football season
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  twenty twenty four cannot wait. So make sure you wear your glasses today,
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  don't get don't go blind. There's going to be a very exciting football season
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  coming up that you're going to want to watch. So make sure. We
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  will be back tomorrow with a whole new look at I don't know, probably
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  probably less of a hacked hack need kind of gimmick a show. Tomorrow,
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  Hopefully maybe we'll see Hopefully, hopefully you guys enjoyed that one. We will
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  talk to you guys tomorrow