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2025 Cotton Bowl: Will Texas Have To Turn To Arch Manning To Move The Ball? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning for Thursday, January ninth. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, Tom Moore. The Cotton Bowl game against Texas
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  Speaker 1: so we put out a call for listener questions on
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  Speaker 1: the Buckeye Weekly podcast feed and got an absolutely overwhelming
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  Speaker 1: tide of questions. We did two shows on Wednesday for
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  Speaker 1: you already, and we have many more questions still to go,
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  Speaker 1: and frankly, there's just not that time much time before
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  Speaker 1: the game, so you got to me be answering a
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  Speaker 1: few of those here on the Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning feed
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  Speaker 1: as well. So let's start with this one from at
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  Speaker 1: VW CHADW. What are your thoughts on the possible ability
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  Speaker 1: of Manning arch Manning getting extended minutes if youwers struggles
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  Speaker 1: completing passes. So this is something we've talked about a
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  Speaker 1: little bit as we've been watching through Texas's three most
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  Speaker 1: recent games. There's certainly been some times in those three games,
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  Speaker 1: especially against Georgia in the SEC Championship game and against
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  Speaker 1: Arizona State in the Peach Bowl, where Texas has really
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  Speaker 1: struggled to run the ball, and I think that might
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  Speaker 1: be more of a deciding factor in terms of if
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  Speaker 1: and when arch Manning might play in this game, rather
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  Speaker 1: than quin yours not completing passes. Throwing the ball is
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  Speaker 1: generally not Quinn you weres big issue. It's if they
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  Speaker 1: are if they need some additional oomph in the run game,
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  Speaker 1: if the running backs are not able to generate a
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  Speaker 1: lot of yardage, and I think that is a possibility
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  Speaker 1: that they won't be able to do that against Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State because the Buck guys rank number two in the
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  Speaker 1: nation in yards per carry against and yards per carry against,
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  Speaker 1: and Zona State and Georgia we're both kind of in
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  Speaker 1: the twenties. Texas around the ball great against Clemson. Clemson
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  Speaker 1: was right ninety ninth in that stat So it figures
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  Speaker 1: that they are probably not going to be able to
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  Speaker 1: run the ball super well against the Ohio State defense,
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  Speaker 1: and that's when you might need to bring in arch Manning.
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  Speaker 1: Arch Manning, they have really been using him mostly in
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  Speaker 1: short yardage, in goal line situation, goal to go kind
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  Speaker 1: of situations where you remember the old Tate Martel package
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  Speaker 1: for Ohio State when Tate Martell was on the team
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  Speaker 1: back in twenty eighteen, and they would sort of bring
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  Speaker 1: him in in goal line situations. Did something similar with
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  Speaker 1: Devin Brown last year, sort of having him come in
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  Speaker 1: goal line situations and spell Kyle McCord at times during
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty three season. That's kind of what they've
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  Speaker 1: been doing with arch Manning. I think it's possible that
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  Speaker 1: they might bring him in, but having watched those last
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  Speaker 1: three games now against against Clemson, he he had a
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  Speaker 1: couple chances to do things and had a ball go
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  Speaker 1: through his legs, a snap go through his legs, he
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  Speaker 1: had a couple times when they got stopped. The package
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  Speaker 1: just didn't work as well as you might think or
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  Speaker 1: as well as you might hope, and then he really
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  Speaker 1: did not play at all against Arizona State in the
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  Speaker 1: Peach Bowl. So I think it's possible that you might
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  Speaker 1: see some arch manning and they might just need a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a change up at some point. I
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  Speaker 1: think Texas is probably not going to be able to
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  Speaker 1: just march the ball up and down the field against
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State all day and all night long, so they
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  Speaker 1: may just be looking for a change up at some point.
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  Speaker 1: But in terms of the actual question, the possibility of
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  Speaker 1: arch manning getting extended minutes that I think is a
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  Speaker 1: little less likely. But of course, this is a do
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  Speaker 1: or die game. This is Game seven of the World
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  Speaker 1: Series if you want to or I guess the LCS,
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  Speaker 1: since there's one more game to come after that. So
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  Speaker 1: if your pitcher gets bombed in the first hitting, sure,
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  Speaker 1: maybe you're pulling him and trying something else, but that's
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  Speaker 1: a little bit more of a desperation situation. I don't
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  Speaker 1: think that the game plan is necessarily going to be
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  Speaker 1: to bring in arch Manning to run the ball a lot.
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  Speaker 1: It's a thought that I had earlier in the week
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  Speaker 1: as well, But then more we've sort of watched the
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  Speaker 1: last couple of games, the more talked through things, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't seem like that's super likely to be at least
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  Speaker 1: a Plan A or Plan B kind of thing for Texas.
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  Speaker 1: It may be a little bit more of a break
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  Speaker 1: glass in case of emergency kind of thing for Texas.
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  Speaker 1: Next question from at Old Peat nineteen twenty six is
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  Speaker 1: the weather messing up team preparations for the game? And
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  Speaker 1: the short answer for that is no, at least not yet. Now.
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  Speaker 1: The weather's supposed to roll in around lunchtime on Thursday
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  Speaker 1: at Central time, and it's supposed to be starting with
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  Speaker 1: rain and maybe some ice coming down on Thursday, and
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  Speaker 1: then it's going to turn into snow. Sounds like the
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  Speaker 1: forecast is three to four ish inches of snow. Could
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  Speaker 1: be a little less, could be a little more. There's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of this stuff that's going to be happening
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  Speaker 1: with the temperature right above or right below the freezing mark,
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  Speaker 1: so there's still a little bit of wiggle room and
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  Speaker 1: all this stuff. But the Cotton Bowl has come out
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  Speaker 1: and said they're playing the game. There was a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of question earlier in the week in terms of
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  Speaker 1: when the forecast was for twelve inches of snow ten
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  Speaker 1: inches of snow. There was a little more wiggle room
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  Speaker 1: in terms of you know, hey, you might not be
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  Speaker 1: able to hold the game. Now. Once we got here,
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  Speaker 1: once we landed, the forecast had been updated. It is
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  Speaker 1: now to more in that three inches of snow range.
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  Speaker 1: It's not going to be great traffic wise around the
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  Speaker 1: DFW Metroplex, unquestionably, but it's probably not going to be
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  Speaker 1: something that's super, super disruptive. I am expecting on Thursday,
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  Speaker 1: most offices in Dallas and Fort Worth probably going to
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  Speaker 1: be closed. If you have the option of working remotely,
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  Speaker 1: if you have the option of not going to school,
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of schools are going to be closed.
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of offices are going to be
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  Speaker 1: closed just to avoid having people on the road when
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  Speaker 1: there's a bunch of ice, because that doesn't tend to
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  Speaker 1: go well anywhere, least of all somewhere like this, where
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  Speaker 1: doesn't happen a whole heck of a lot. But in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the actual impact on the team and its preparation,
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  Speaker 1: the Buck guys had their last like real serious practice
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  Speaker 1: in Columbus before they got an airplane and came down
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  Speaker 1: to Dallas, so they have they had their last serious practice.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna have a walk through at the stadium on Thursday.
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  Speaker 1: That'll be either right before or right after. I think
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  Speaker 1: Texas has the first one, and then Ohio State has
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  Speaker 1: the one right after the head coaches press conference. But
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  Speaker 1: either way they'll they'll get their walk through done before
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  Speaker 1: the before the weather really truly hits, and then all
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  Speaker 1: then all they have they have to have to do
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  Speaker 1: is just get on the bus and go back to
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  Speaker 1: the hotel and that's it. And then the worst of
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  Speaker 1: the weather is supposed to be done by Friday morning,
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  Speaker 1: you know, early early morning, kind of like before rush
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  Speaker 1: hour probably, so then you have all day to get
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  Speaker 1: the roads all cleaned up, have all day to get
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  Speaker 1: you know, the sun out and hopefully warm up and
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  Speaker 1: melt some of the snow, melt some of the ice.
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  Speaker 1: So it does not sound like now that it is
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  Speaker 1: going to be something that impacts team preparation, impacts the
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  Speaker 1: game in any meaningful way. Traffic might be a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a pain getting there, but when is that
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  Speaker 1: not true with Jerry World? So well, you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you're going to the game, leave a little early, leave
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  Speaker 1: yourself some extra time. But it does not seem like
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  Speaker 1: that's something that's going to make a material difference in
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  Speaker 1: terms of impacting the game or the team's preparation for
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  Speaker 1: either team for the game, both teams already in Dallas.
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  Speaker 1: We got a chance to talk to both of them
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday night, so you can find that all on
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  Speaker 1: our YouTube channel at YouTube dot com slash bucka huddle.
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  Speaker 1: All right, last question from Ebosini. He says, why does
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  Speaker 1: the Big AD? Why is the AD or Big Ten
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  Speaker 1: commissioner not ask the NCAA to not appoint acc refs
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  Speaker 1: or sec refs for OSU games? Did we forget the
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  Speaker 1: Clemson game? Nonsense? These two officials are affiliated with ESPN
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  Speaker 1: by virtue of conference contracts and should not be officiating
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  Speaker 1: any OSU or Big Ten playoffs. So you know, we'll
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  Speaker 1: set aside the conspiracy theory end of that and let
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  Speaker 1: you know, here's how the refs get decided. They get designed,
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  Speaker 1: and that is entirely a college football playoff, college football
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  Speaker 1: playoff selection or committee decision. That's not the NC DOUBLEA.
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  Speaker 1: The NCUBLEA actually has nothing to do with the college
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  Speaker 1: football playoff. They just it is run by the College
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  Speaker 1: Football Playoff folks, It is not an NC DOUBLEA issue
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  Speaker 1: at all. And why does Ohio State not go to
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  Speaker 1: the College Football Playoff Committee and say that, well, because
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  Speaker 1: then the College Football Playoff Committee would say, well, if
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  Speaker 1: you'd like to forfeit, you can let us know. But
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State is not really interested in forfeiting. So therefore
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  Speaker 1: that's that's kind of a non starter in terms of
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  Speaker 1: a conversation to have around the game, around the officiating,
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  Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff. You know, there are bad
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  Speaker 1: calls that happen all the time. You know, I think
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  Speaker 1: we all remember the Jordan Fuller interception slash incomplete pass
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  Speaker 1: from the twenty nineteens, which I think is sort of
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  Speaker 1: the genesis of this whole conversation. There have been bad
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  Speaker 1: believe it or not. If you have watched Big Ten games,
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  Speaker 1: if you have watched Big twelve games, their officials miscalls
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  Speaker 1: sometimes too. It happens. So, yeah, that is not something
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  Speaker 1: that's that's gonna be a pretty big non starter with
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State. That's gonna be a pretty big non starter
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  Speaker 1: with the Big Ten, and that's certainly gonna be a
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  Speaker 1: big non starter with the College Football Playoff folks. So
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  Speaker 1: there you go, So three questions. Wanted to run through
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  Speaker 1: those for you. We're going to have many, many more
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  Speaker 1: questions coming for you on shows on the Buckeye Weekly
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  Speaker 1: podcast feed coming up on Thursday and then Friday as well.
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  Speaker 1: We have a couple days of full of coverage for
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  Speaker 1: you leading up to Friday night's game seven thirty at
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  Speaker 1: Jerry World. We will be there. We'll have all sorts
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  Speaker 1: of coverage for you on Thursday, including the head coaches
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  Speaker 1: press conference. Gets a chance to talk to Steve Sarkisian
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  Speaker 1: and Ryan Day. They'll have to do the typical photo
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  Speaker 1: shaking hands standing next to the trophy that all the
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  Speaker 1: good stuff you've come to know and love from these
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  Speaker 1: Bowl games will be there covering all that for you.
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  Speaker 1: We'll try and get you all live show while we're
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  Speaker 1: over at the stadium as well. A little behind the scenes.
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  Speaker 1: The internet at the hotel that we the media hotel
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  Speaker 1: is not great. We've had a lot of trouble getting
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  Speaker 1: live shows up, so we've been doing a lot of
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  Speaker 1: recorded stuff. We're gonna try and do a live show
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  Speaker 1: while we're over at the stadium and have hopefully some
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  Speaker 1: better internet connection, and then we'll have a bunch of
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  Speaker 1: live stuff for your Friday as we count down the
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  Speaker 1: hours to the Ohio State Texas College Football Playoffs semi
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  Speaker 1: final in the twenty twenty five Cotton Bowl. I can't wait,
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  Speaker 1: guessing you can't either. It should be a great game.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to be a lot to talk about before
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  Speaker 1: and a lot to talk about after, and a great
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  Speaker 1: place to talk about all of it. We'll be at
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  Speaker 1: the team, Mark covers recruiting. We got our whole team
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  Speaker 1: of X's who Knows gurus there as well to make
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  Speaker 1: you a smarter football fan. All at buckey Huddle dot com.
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  Speaker 1: We hope to see you there. That'll do it for today.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk je tomorrow