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Is Ohio State Part Of Half Of College Football's 10 Best Games In 2026? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Friday, May twenty second.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tom or the ball State game in
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and sixteen days, the game against Michigan in
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  Speaker 1: on today's show, we're going to be talking about one
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  Speaker 1: of the two games that we mentioned in that intro.
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  Speaker 1: Here's a hint it is not the ball State game,
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  Speaker 1: because we were talking about some of the biggest matchups
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  Speaker 1: on the college football calendar. Our friend Tony Gerderman from
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  Speaker 1: the Buckeye Weekly podcast went through figured out the top
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  Speaker 1: matchups based on CBS Sports combined preseason rankings in the
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  Speaker 1: entire college football world, and it will probably not be
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  Speaker 1: a huge shock to people who have looked at Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State scheduled that the buck Eyes feature in the top
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  Speaker 1: three games on that ranking list, four of the top
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  Speaker 1: six and five of the top twelve. Tony, first of all,
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  Speaker 1: how did you get the idea of doing this? This
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  Speaker 1: kind of a creative way to do this sort of
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  Speaker 1: objectively and not just sort of like, well look at
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  Speaker 1: the helmets.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Well, every year I put together like the fifty
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  Speaker 2: best games of the Year list that I you know,
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  Speaker 2: as I piece them out, do a series over the
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  Speaker 2: course of fifty days before the big ten media days,
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  Speaker 2: and I was trying to figure out, okay, what are
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  Speaker 2: the bottom fifty or so like, what are the from
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  Speaker 2: trying to pare it down to fifty. I wanted to actually, like,
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  Speaker 2: I can no longer just go with my own opinion,
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  Speaker 2: so let's let's use math, which is something I rarely say,
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  Speaker 2: but I put the math to I'm like, well, let's
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  Speaker 2: just use the CBS rankings. I know they had all
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  Speaker 2: one hundred and thirty eight ranks, so I thought, let's
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  Speaker 2: just do it that way, make it fair. That way,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not angering somebody from you know, Starkville or something,
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  Speaker 2: because don't ever anger anybody from Starkville. But so that
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  Speaker 2: that's all it was. And then you just thanks to
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  Speaker 2: a higher state being ranked one, you know they're going
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  Speaker 2: to be popping up. But it's not just because they're
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  Speaker 2: ranked one, because they could be you know, last year
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  Speaker 2: I don't know how many times you know number one
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  Speaker 2: or you know top twenty matchups they would have had
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  Speaker 2: ranked number one. But that was the gist of it.
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  Speaker 2: I just want to put some math to it and
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  Speaker 2: then take more analytical approach.
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  Speaker 1: Well, the level of analytics here is that you've got
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  Speaker 1: the number one team, so the the second ranked team.
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  Speaker 1: The best number, the lowest number you could come up
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  Speaker 1: with is three as a potential matchup. Just a theoretical
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  Speaker 1: matchup of three would be the highest. Uh, the highest
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  Speaker 1: a number could be. If the lowest number could be
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  Speaker 1: the highest, this would be on a list. And by golly,
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  Speaker 1: tony three is the number four Ohio State and Texas.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm almost right away of the season week two
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  Speaker 2: one versus two, which people say, is that's what you
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  Speaker 2: need to call something game of the century. We'll see
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  Speaker 2: if they can hold those rankings going into that game,
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  Speaker 2: but it's certainly the game of the year of the
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  Speaker 2: week as we say, yeah, this is.
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  Speaker 1: This was one versus two last year I think by
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  Speaker 1: one of the met one of the ranking systems. I
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  Speaker 1: think it was maybe the coaches had them one two
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  Speaker 1: and the media had them won three, something like that,
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  Speaker 1: and it was a game. It wasn't the most brilliantly
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  Speaker 1: played football game in the history of college football, but
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  Speaker 1: it was an you know, it was an interesting game.
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  Speaker 1: It went down to the final minute. So yeah, that
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  Speaker 1: was that was a good one. Expecting another good one
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  Speaker 1: this year in Austin. Probably a little higher scoring, but
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  Speaker 1: we will see. So, okay, three is the lowest possible
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  Speaker 1: number you could have. Well look after that, what's the
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  Speaker 1: lowest possible number four? Well, could there possibly be a
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  Speaker 1: game that is one that it has a total ranking
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  Speaker 1: of four?
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Yes, tony number three Oregon at number one Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and this is I think we're going to call
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  Speaker 2: it a free thirty game, maybe as a guest here,
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  Speaker 2: but one versus three not long after playing one versus two.
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  Speaker 2: This is what we've been talking about with the highest
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  Speaker 2: state schedule where there's only a couple of off weeks
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  Speaker 2: and there aren't really two off weeks in a row
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  Speaker 2: with this schedule. And you know right away, boom three
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  Speaker 2: four points for Oregon at Ohio State, and I one
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  Speaker 2: of those ones that makes the season ticket worth it,
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  Speaker 2: I think, along with something else we'll talk about.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, we'll get to that other one a little
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  Speaker 1: later on, But the first couple, it's teams that have been,
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  Speaker 1: you know, at or near the top of the sport
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  Speaker 1: for decades. Ohio State, Texas, Oregon. These are teams that
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  Speaker 1: are used to being, you know, playing in these kind
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  Speaker 1: of marquee games. The next one a total of seven
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  Speaker 1: here for number one Ohio State at number six Indiana.
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  Speaker 1: That would have sounded extremely weird a couple of years ago,
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  Speaker 1: but not quite as weird as number one Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: at defending national champion number six Indiana.
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  Speaker 2: Really drive the plate home on the Indiana stuff. I
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  Speaker 2: think it's very interesting that these will be and I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to spoil on anything. The only single digit
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  Speaker 2: game gas using both combined rankings. To me, that says
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  Speaker 2: a lot about Ohio State schedule. And I know we're
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  Speaker 2: all looking forward to it's going to be the biggest
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  Speaker 2: game in Indiana football history. We'll see what the record
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  Speaker 2: is getting there. In terms of home game, I should
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  Speaker 2: I guess I should say the biggest home game.
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  Speaker 1: Did you not hear how I set this whole thing up?
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  Speaker 1: Because they played.
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  Speaker 2: Some This one's bigger. Trust me, it's the media. It's
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  Speaker 2: the media guide game, Tom, It's bigger. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So those are the top three games nationally by this metric,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State at Texas, Oregon at Ohio State, and Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State at Indiana. The next two do not involve Ohio State,
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  Speaker 1: but they are a couple really traditional college football matchups,
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  Speaker 1: rivalries that have gone away. Well, sorry, don't tell Texas
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  Speaker 1: that Texas A and M's a rivalry. They don't care, Tony,
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  Speaker 1: they don't they They just another team in the state.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't matter at all. But yes, Texas at Texas
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  Speaker 1: A and M. That combines for ten. Miami at Notre Dame.
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  Speaker 1: That's a another good one that you have probably heard
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  Speaker 1: about a little bit about over the years. That is eleven,
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  Speaker 1: So that would be the fifth highest ranked thing in
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  Speaker 1: this system, number fifteen. This is another helmet game, Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State at USC number six on the list, four out
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  Speaker 1: of the top six for Ohio State and two enormous brands.
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  Speaker 1: It's gonna be a little weird to have Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: in USC playing in Los Angeles but not in the
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  Speaker 1: Rose Bowl. That's where they've met more often than they
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  Speaker 1: have at the Coliseum. But still, this is a series
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  Speaker 1: that has a ton of history and should be a
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  Speaker 1: really really good game this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I can't wait for this one. This is another
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  Speaker 2: one where Ohio State's walking into a situation where this
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  Speaker 2: is like the biggest game in a long time. I
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  Speaker 2: think this is USC's biggest Big ten game ever, and
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  Speaker 2: to have Ohio State coming in certainly biggest big big
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  Speaker 2: ten home game, Like when was the last time they
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  Speaker 2: had a game like this? I know they've competed for
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  Speaker 2: PAC twelve championships here and there. I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: say you have to go back all the way to
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  Speaker 2: Pete Carroll's time, but you might in terms of the
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  Speaker 2: biggest thing that has come through USC, maybe a Notre
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  Speaker 2: Dame Caleb Williams type of situation with those. But it's
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  Speaker 2: going to be very, very big, and it's a game
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  Speaker 2: that Ohio State absolutely cannot overlook.
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  Speaker 1: No, that definitely, it is not the biggest game in
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State schedule, but as is often the case, the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State game is frequently the biggest game on the
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  Speaker 1: opponent's schedule, and that will probably be the case here,
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  Speaker 1: especially with USC not playing Notre Dame this year, so
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  Speaker 1: this is probably going to be the biggest game for
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  Speaker 1: the Trojans at least on the regular season schedule. That
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  Speaker 1: game is tied with Oklahoma at Georgia and Texas at LSU,
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  Speaker 1: so that is tied for sixth place, and then Georgia
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  Speaker 1: at Alabama that would be in ninth place, and then
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  Speaker 1: the Michigan Ohio State game is one of three that
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  Speaker 1: is tied with seventeen. So really it is technically this
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  Speaker 1: is five of the top ten for Ohio State, so
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  Speaker 1: that it is tied with Georgia Ole, Miss Oregon at
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  Speaker 1: USC and then of course Tony Michigan at Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: only the fifth most consequential game on this year's schedule,
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  Speaker 1: according Tony Gerdaman, which you know, I don't know, Tody.
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  Speaker 1: You may want to check your.
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  Speaker 2: Math on that one. Well exactly, Actually, Tom, we're going
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  Speaker 2: to blame the math, which I do a lot. It
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  Speaker 2: is the math's fault on this one. That's just how
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  Speaker 2: it came out. That's not where I would put it,
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  Speaker 2: That's where math would put it. So all of you
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  Speaker 2: people who are always siding with math and science, this
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  Speaker 2: one's on you take responsibility for a change. But let
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  Speaker 2: me ask you, Tom, do you think Michigan in this
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  Speaker 2: ranking is sixteen If that's if that's the over under
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  Speaker 2: on their ranking by the time they get there to
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  Speaker 2: this game, you're going over or under sixteen for Michigan's
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  Speaker 2: ranking at the time of the game.
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  Speaker 1: Well, let me pull up Michigan's schedule, which is always
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  Speaker 1: the most exciting thing you can do on a podcast
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  Speaker 1: your show. Their schedule this year they play Oklahoma at home,
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  Speaker 1: Iowa at home at Minnesota home for Penn State, Indiana
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  Speaker 1: at home, Michigan State at home at Oregon at Ohio State.
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  Speaker 1: We'll say Oklahoma's losable. You get Iowa at home, you
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  Speaker 1: should be okay. Penn State at home probably okay. In
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  Speaker 1: year one for Matt Campbell, Indiana at home will give
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  Speaker 1: them a loss there, Oregon at Oregon they could come
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  Speaker 1: in with three losses, which that's probably and you know,
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  Speaker 1: could it be too sure, it could be two. They're
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  Speaker 1: not coming in undefeated with that schedule, especially in year
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  Speaker 1: one for Kyle Weddingham. I think they're going to be
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  Speaker 1: probably a little lower than sixteen. Like say that's Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State at number mumble mumble whatever it is, number six
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  Speaker 1: or seven, because I don't think Ohio State's coming in
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  Speaker 1: undefeated either. With the schedule that they have but I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to say Michigan comes in at like number nineteen
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  Speaker 1: or something like that as a like an eight to
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  Speaker 1: three kind of team, which at that point, if Michigan
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  Speaker 1: beats Ohio State, that might be enough to vault them
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  Speaker 1: into the college football playoff picture.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, very much though.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, So there you go, Ohio State. Five of
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  Speaker 1: the ten biggest games in college football this year, four
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  Speaker 1: of the top six and the top three. We are
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  Speaker 1: going to be covering all of those games looking forward
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  Speaker 1: to that. Man, you see the schedule and it's like, man,
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  Speaker 1: there's some really good games on this year's schedule. It's like, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we get to go to those games. That's really exciting
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  Speaker 1: that there's gonna be some great, great football games this year.
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  Speaker 1: We'll be covering them all for you on the Bluckist
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