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Is Ohio State's Offense Going To Run Wild On Oregon? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buck Guyes tomorrow morning for Tuesday, July ninth, I'm your host,
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  tom Or the Akron game in fifty three days, the game against Michigan
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  in one hundred and forty four days. We're back today with Tony Gerderbinefuckeyhuddle dot
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  Com. His fifty four to fifty series continues today as he counts down the
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  days to the start of Big Ten Media Days, which is exactly two weeks
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  from today, the unofficial start of the season. Tony, just fourteen days
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  away. A little peak behind the curtain. We had a little staff meeting
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  on Monday talking about all the fun stuff we have planned for this year.
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  I am genuinely truly excited even to go sit in Lucas Oil Stadium with the
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  bad WiFi and listen to football players and coaches talk about football for a couple
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  of days. You mentioned a bad WiFi, and I don't know that people
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  really understand we are. The whole thing is set up on the field of
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  Lucas Oil Stadium. All of the desks and tables and interviews and everything is
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  there. That's where everybody is trying to work. And the Wi Fi there
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  is dial up quality when it's working at times, and so last year I'm
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  just trying to we're I think we all went through this. We would have
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  to take a laptop or our phone into the lunch area because the Wi Fi
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  was better there. For some reason, I don't maybe just switch some wires
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  around, switch some routers around, and take the lunch scream Wi Fi,
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  bring it to the on field Wi Fi, and then maybe we were cooking
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  with gas. All right, Well, I'm looking forward to spending three days
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  with Tony in Indianapolis, listening to him playing them on the Wi Fi and
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  also listening to football coaches and players talk. Again. Fourteen days away,
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  we'll be there. Cannot wait. The unofficial start of the college football season
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  really truly very close around the corner, and only fifty three days till the
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  Akron game, which means forty six days till week zero. So yes,
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  college football getting here pretty pretty soon. And when college football does get here,
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  you know, this is a very veteran Ohio State team that's going to
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  be taking the field against Akron in fifty three days. But there are also
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  some younger players who are potentially going to be taking on a bigger role.
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  There's spots where the Buckeyes are still trying to figure out some of the depth
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  pieces. One of the spots is that the defensive tackle position, and Tony
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  in his fifty for fifty series wrote about a couple young defensive tackles who we've
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  kind of been waiting on a couple of years, and now you get a
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  chance to potentially see them take on a bigger role. Tony, let's hear
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  it all about Jason Moore and Will Smith junior. Yeah, the two red
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  shirt freshman defensive tackles from last year's class. We got to see Kate McDonald
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  play here and there, and then we expect him to play quite a bit
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  this year. Got to see Hero Canoe as a red shirt freshman last year
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  play some he's now I can't believe a third year player. And so they're
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  going to be counted on this year but also next year when ty Hamilton and
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  Tyler Williams are gone. But there also needs to be more than just those
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  two. And Will Smith and Jason Moore are two guys that they I think
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  really need to see something from this year. We got to see Jason Moore
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  in the spring. He was Larry Johnson kept talking about him, kept bringing
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  him up, so you know that's an encouraging one. Will Will Smith,
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  You're not going to find anybody say anything bad about him. He's dealt with
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  injuries, So can he stay healthy? Can he be healthy? And what
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  can these guys do? How much can they be involved? Will they be
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  involved as much as Hero Canoe? Last year as a red shirt freshman where
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  sometimes you played, sometimes he didn't, But as the season went on,
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  he got better, got more playing time. We know they want to play
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  a bunch of guys. Here are two guys that if we're seeing them out
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  there, that's a very good sign for the Buckeyes this year. Yeah,
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  that's a spot where they feel you know, I think they feel very good
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  about the kind of top line of the defense. And then it's kind of
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  okay where you know who are going to be the guys who are sort of
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  the next guys up, And you expect Hero Canoe to be in that mix.
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  And I won Malone the transfer from Ole Miss you'd expect him to be
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  in that mix. So a lot of guys there. McDonald, as you
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  mentioned, played more last year. I am really intrigued by him. He
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  just the fact that they use him on offense as well. Just tells me
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  they really like the explosiveness and the athleticism that he has. He does not
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  look like he should be, you know, a quick quitch explosive guy,
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  but he does have does have some of those traits that you've seen in other
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  guys like Tyler Williams over the years. So yeah, that's definitely going to
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  be an interesting spot to watch on the field. You also in your series
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  are talking about other games to watch, other players to watch in the Big
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  Ten. You have this one. This is a classic Rose Bowl matchup,
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  the old Bo Schimbeckler and John Robinson Rose Bowls from way back when USC and
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  Michigan. Now, of course a conference game, What a time to be
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  alive. And you have a name that Ohio State fans will probably recognize from
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  the recruiting days, Zachariah Branch And you think he might have a very big
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  day against the Wolverines this fall. Yeah, I think you're talking about a
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  slot receiver who needs to get the football. He's going to be one of
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  the guys that is probably most involved in the offense, but is also involved
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  in special teams. And when you think of playing against Michigan, they no
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  longer have Mike Sayner still at nickel, So that makes me think zach Ryan
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  Branch could be very could be very effective in the slot against Michigan. But
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  he's a guy that needs the ball. I think he had maybe I don't
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  even know if he had one, maybe one game last year where he touched
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  touched the ball on offense more than five or six times, And in this
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  one, I think he needs upwards of ten touches just even you know,
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  even if it's just a small game, it might lead to something bigger later
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  on, or the the decoy aspect of him might lead to something just gonna
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  reminds me of that the Ted Gen thing. Just get him involved as much
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  as possible, and there were never enough touches, and we both remember the
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  Curtis Samuel season of twenty sixteen. Never enough touches there. I almost feel
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  like there can't be enough touches for Zacharia Branch, who he blew up in
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  the first game last year, went for two hundred and thirty two all purpose
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  yards, like almost half of those were our kickoff returns. I don't know
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  how many kickoff returns he's gonna have against Michigan. Maybe just one. You
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  know, if Michigan doesn't score, we'll see big expectations for Lincoln Rally his
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  defense. What do you think about that, Tom only one touchdown given up
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  by or no touchdowns maybe given up by that USC defense now that Alex Grinch
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  is no longer there. Yeah, boy, the USC defense has been a
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  movable object. But I think this year's Michigan offense might be a pretty resistible
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  force. So this might be the opposite of the classic matchups of football days
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  long gone. Yeah, an important distinction there. I do want to make
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  sure one hundred and seventy five all purpose yards because yes he was Zacharia branch
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  I forget who they played in the season open, was it San Jose State
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  or Presno State or someone like that, And he had he had a kick
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  return that it was one of the fastest you have seen a football player run.
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  It was absolutely just incredibly fast. It was ted ginnesque. And so
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  yeah, he is definitely someone to someone to keep an eye on later this
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  year when they play Michigan. Now on to the last piece of today's show,
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  and this is a little bit of the opposite of the resistible force meets
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  the movable object. This is the Ohio State offense going up against the Oregon
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  defense. And this is game that I think we have already been talking about
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  as certainly almost a top five matchup between the Buckeyes and the Ducks when they
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  square off in mid October out in Eugene. Could easily be number one versus
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  number two. Of Georgia's slips up in one of their early season games.
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  And this is one that I kind of went huh when I read through these.
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  Sometimes it's like, Okay, yeah, I can see that happen.
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  This was kind of a huh. All right. When Shawn Judkins and Trevion
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  Henderson, you think they are going to have a very big day for the
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  Buckeyes on the ground out in Autin Stadium, Tony, how big of a
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  day? And I'm going to need you to sort show your work on this
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  one. Yeah. I am predicting boldly, Tom that they will combine for
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  two hundred yards rushing. And the thing about it is that could come in
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  so many different forms and fashions. Because I could tell you Travon Henderson had
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  won sixty and quinch On Jetkins had forty, I could tell you the other
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  way around. I can tell you they both had like one hundred and five.
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  I think the biggest factor, obviously is the offensive line in creating the
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  room and quarterback play being good enough that you can't just focus on the running
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  game. I also think patience is going to be important as well, just
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  sticking with the running game, knowing that as long as you continue to just
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  pound it and we can and wear down the defense, good things will happen
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  with either one of these guys. With quinch on jets of Trevion Henderson.
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  The problem is only one team is rushed for over two hundred yards against Dan
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  Lanning's defense and Oregon and that was Oregon State in twenty twenty two. Now,
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  Ohio State could run for under two hundred, but those two could still
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  go over two hundred, as we know, if you get after the quarterback
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  or whatever. But you know, last year the high for them was one
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  hundred and seventy four yards rushing aloud to Texas Tech in Week two. And
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  other than that, they they they only gave up over one hundred yards six
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  times last year and they they were pretty good. And so Tom, this
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  is about as bald as you're going to get. Those two going over two
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  hundred, But would it shock you if one of them went for like one
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  fifty? And if one of them goes for like one fifty, would it
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  shock you if the other is like, you know, forty five fifty yards.
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  I think the thing I would be most surprised about out of all of
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  that would be one of them going for one to fifty. It's certainly possible,
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  But that Oregon defense has been pretty stout over Dan lanning tenure up in
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  Eugene. There's they're loading up with some pretty good players and he is a
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  pretty good defensive mind. So we'll see how that We'll see how that all
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  shakes out. I'm guessing this will not be the last time we talk about
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  the Ohigh State Oregon game on this show, or on Buckeye Weekly, or
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  on any of the other spots that you hear us talk about football, including
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  the huddle board at bucke huddle dot com. Before that game kicks off in
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  October, Boy, there's a lot to be excited about this year with college
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  football, with Buckeye football. With all that, we are really looking forward
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  to it, and we hope you guys are as well, and we hope
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  you guys will join us at bucke huddle dot com to talk about this year's
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  team, to talk about this year's college football season, and much much more.
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  That's where Tony, Kevin and I cover the team, we get Mark
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  cover and recruiting. Had our whole team with Exus and Ose Guruz there to
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  make you a smarter football fan. All at Buckeye huddle dot com. We
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  hope to see you there. That'll do it for today. Thank you guys
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  all for joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.