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Cotton Bowl Preview: Improving Forecast Means Weather Unlikely To Delay The Game · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Wednesday, January eighth. I'm
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  Speaker 1: your host, tom Or. The Cotton Bowl game against Texas
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  Speaker 1: is in two days. The game against Michigan in three
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five days. If you were watching us
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  Speaker 1: on YouTube, you see, Hey, they're in a hotel. Why
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  Speaker 1: are they in a hotel? Well, we are in Texas
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  Speaker 1: for the Cotton Bowl. Just landed on Tuesday night, joined
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  Speaker 1: by Tony Gerderman ifuck Huddle dot com. Tony, the first
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  Speaker 1: thing we asked the driver we got in the car was, uh,
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  Speaker 1: what's going on with the weather, because everyone's been very
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  Speaker 1: very nervous about the weather. So what is going on
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  Speaker 1: with the weather and what might it mean for the
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  Speaker 1: Cotton Bowl.
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  Speaker 2: Well, the latest from our lift driver and also from
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  Speaker 2: the weather apps has been greatly downgraded from the twelve
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  Speaker 2: to fifteen inches that was being talked about. And of
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  Speaker 2: course any situations you always glom onto like the worst
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  Speaker 2: possible outcome. But now it's looking like a much much
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  Speaker 2: lesser amount of snow, maybe somewhere between tom to six,
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  Speaker 2: one to four, one to six somewhere in that area,
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  Speaker 2: and ended up some rain as well. And if it's
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  Speaker 2: warm enough to rain, then you figure the accumulation of
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  Speaker 2: the snow won't be as great as they had originally thought.
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  Speaker 2: And so, yeah, it was getting pretty dicey there for
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  Speaker 2: a little while, and now it's looking better. But I'm
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  Speaker 2: asked tomorrow.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we'll see what the forecast looks like tomorrow. And
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  Speaker 1: there is potentially some ice as well, which could complicate things. So,
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  Speaker 1: you know, not out of the woods necessarily weatherwise, but
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  Speaker 1: not nearly as dicey as it was looking a day
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  Speaker 1: or so back. Ross Dellinger of Yahoo had a report
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  Speaker 1: where he talked to some folks with the Cotton Bowl
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  Speaker 1: and his tweet was that Bowl officials met with Emergency Management,
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  Speaker 1: law enforcement, CFP leaders and meteorologists today as they continue
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  Speaker 1: to monitor the winter storm approaching Dallas. Teams are still
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  Speaker 1: scheduled to arrive on Wednesday. We'll get to that in
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  Speaker 1: a minute.
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  Speaker 3: He says.
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  Speaker 1: There's been little to know series discussion about postponing the
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  Speaker 1: game as of now. According to those with knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: the discussions, the forecast is th three to six and
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  Speaker 1: just snow Thursday and no ice now, so there are
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  Speaker 1: no plans as of now to cancel any fan events
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  Speaker 1: or other game day events.
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  Speaker 2: So that's all.
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  Speaker 3: Trending in a very positive direction. Plus we must credit
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  Speaker 3: our lift drivers. Our lift driver who's been out on
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  Speaker 3: the highways all day saying that he's seeing them prep
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  Speaker 3: four whether whether it's salt treatment or whatever they're doing there,
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  Speaker 3: they are preparing for it.
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  Speaker 2: So that is that was good to hear.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that definitely good to hear, because I know there's
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  Speaker 1: always a little bit of a concern when you go
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  Speaker 1: to a southern city, like exactly how ready are they
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  Speaker 1: for winter weather? And you know, you hear the story
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  Speaker 1: about Tom Herman when he was an Ohio State assistant
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  Speaker 1: abandoning his car on the side of the highway on
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  Speaker 1: a recruiting trip and I think Atlanta right because of
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  Speaker 1: ice dorm and it was just kind of like, well,
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  Speaker 1: I can either leave the car here and tell the
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  Speaker 1: rental car company to figure it out, or I can
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  Speaker 1: miss my flight. And he chose to make the rental
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  Speaker 1: car company figure it out. So hey, do you say
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  Speaker 1: they'll pick you up, Well, make them work for it.
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  Speaker 1: So chers don't it well struck? Well struck. So from
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  Speaker 1: that to now, okay, so now that it looks like
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  Speaker 1: the game should be going on, as planned. Okay, so
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  Speaker 1: the one of the teams getting here, we're here already,
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  Speaker 1: one of the teams getting here. The answer to that
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  Speaker 1: is Wednesday evening for both teams. We're planning to have
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  Speaker 1: live coverage of both team arrivals as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Texas will get here first, it's a shorter trip
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  Speaker 2: for them, and then Ohio State will be here a
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  Speaker 2: little bit but after. But Texas arrives around what five
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  Speaker 2: thirty eastern and then Ohio State around seven thirty eastern,
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  Speaker 2: and so we will we'll be running from one hotel
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  Speaker 2: to the next, I suppose in order to get everything
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  Speaker 2: for you guys.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have not looked yet how far away those
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  Speaker 1: hotels are.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm sure Texas is a pretty Dallas is
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  Speaker 2: a confined place. I'm sure we could walk to it. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure. It's right next to the Sun Bowl, I
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  Speaker 2: think so. Yes, that's very very close to here. I'm sure.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it'll it'll be a little bit of a fire drill,
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  Speaker 1: but it was a little bit of a fire drill
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  Speaker 1: at the Rose Bowl and that worked out okay in
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  Speaker 1: the end. So we'll be keeping an eye on that.
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  Speaker 1: And the arrivals are a little more elaborate than they
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  Speaker 1: were at the Rose Bowl, where the Rose Bowl was
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  Speaker 1: kind of you showed up and you got a couple
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  Speaker 1: of players for just a few minutes. This is you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be talking to offensive coordinator're gonna be talking to
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  Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, can be talking to a couple of stars
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  Speaker 1: from the offense, a couple of stars from the defense.
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  Speaker 1: So we will get a chance to talk to Quinn
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  Speaker 1: Ewers on Wednesday evening as well as Texas offensive coordinator
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  Speaker 1: Kyle Flood and defensive coordinator Pete Quitkowski. And then we
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  Speaker 1: get a chance to talk to Jim Kelly, Jim Knowles,
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  Speaker 1: several Buckeyes as well. So it should be a really
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  Speaker 1: eventful first day at the Cotton Bowl. And then we'll
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  Speaker 1: have coverage kind of earlier in the day as well.
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  Speaker 2: We'll have plenty to talk about, but let's just.
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  Speaker 1: Hit a couple kind of big themes that we're expecting
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  Speaker 1: to be talking about this week. I think it would
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  Speaker 1: be hard to have a conversation about this year's Cotton
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  Speaker 1: Bowl without having the quin viewers conversation. Obviously, he's going
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  Speaker 1: to be a pretty big, pretty big story just in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the on field, but then the off field
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  Speaker 1: story is going to be a pretty interesting one to
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  Speaker 1: think as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you know, for those that don't know, he
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  Speaker 2: originally signed with Ohio State and then he transferred. That's right.
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  Speaker 2: He signed with Ohio State and then he transferred to
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  Speaker 2: Texas and of course graduated a year early in order
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  Speaker 2: to do so. And from the moment that he graduated
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  Speaker 2: a year early, that was pretty much the death now
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  Speaker 2: for his time at Ohio State, even though he may
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  Speaker 2: not have admitted it then, but I saw somebody ask
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  Speaker 2: is this like a revenge game for Quinn years? And
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that there's any kind of vengeance needed here.
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  Speaker 2: It's just the quarterbacks. The average quarterback plays at more
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  Speaker 2: than one place. Now, you know that's so I don't
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  Speaker 2: think you can like, oh, I'm going to show those
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  Speaker 2: guys like that was That was what two weeks of
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  Speaker 2: his college life basically was at Ohio State. Place that
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  Speaker 2: he wanted to go. I originally wanted to go to Texas,
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  Speaker 2: but there was just crap happening at Texas. So he's like, well,
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  Speaker 2: you go to your next place. And then once Texas solidified,
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  Speaker 2: you're like, you know what, I like to go back there. Plus,
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  Speaker 2: I'm never playing in front of c J.
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  Speaker 1: Stroud, Right, yeah, he got to He got to Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State at a time when it was like, well, I
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  Speaker 1: guess they're at least in theory could be an open
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  Speaker 1: quarterback competition. And you didn't have to watch CJ. Stroud
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  Speaker 1: very long to figure out like, hey, this guy's pretty
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  Speaker 1: good at playing quarterback, and a true freshman early enrollie
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  Speaker 1: who should be in his senior year of high school
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  Speaker 1: is going to have trouble matching up with a future
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  Speaker 1: number two overall pick who's already been in the offense.
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  Speaker 2: For a couple of years. And he wasn't an early
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  Speaker 2: en roly.
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  Speaker 1: He was in August, and right, well yeah, so sorry
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  Speaker 1: ye early, yeah, a year early, but also a late
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  Speaker 1: arriving early enroly.
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  Speaker 3: It was timing all around.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it was just it was a situation that ended
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  Speaker 1: up not being set up for success. But you know,
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  Speaker 1: he has had nothing but positive things to say about
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  Speaker 1: Ryan Day and his time at Ohio State. And Ryan
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  Speaker 1: Day has had nothing but positive thing to say book
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  Speaker 1: when you were in his time at Ohio State. So yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I think you're going to be people who are trying
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  Speaker 1: to make this a more adversarial thing than it could be.
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  Speaker 1: One other thing that I know that we're gonna end
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  Speaker 1: up talking a bunch about this week is the Texas
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  Speaker 1: running game. Because we have watched three Texas games, and
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  Speaker 1: they ran the ball really well in one of them,
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  Speaker 1: like amazingly well in one of them, Tony, what about
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  Speaker 1: the other two?
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  Speaker 2: Well, finnally enough, they did not run it well in
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  Speaker 2: the other two. What Georgia and Arizona State both held
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  Speaker 2: them to under fifty or so yards, And there are
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  Speaker 2: two games against Georgia, I think fifty five carries for
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  Speaker 2: sixty yards this year, and in Arizona State stoned them
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  Speaker 2: as well. So like to me, the two and eighty
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  Speaker 2: yards they went for against Clemson is the complete outlier
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  Speaker 2: here because I wouldn't expect that to happen against Ohio State.
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  Speaker 2: So just a really bizarre fluctuation. And so I think
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  Speaker 2: you look at what Arizona State was able to do,
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  Speaker 2: you look what Georgia was able to do, you'd figure
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State would be able to do something similar to that.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Well, if you look at the run defenses statistically,
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  Speaker 1: Arizona State and Georgia, we're both in the kind of
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  Speaker 1: like high twenties, low thirties. Clemson was I think ninety
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  Speaker 1: ninth in the nation in terms of yards per carry allowed.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State is something like second in the nation in
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  Speaker 1: terms of yards carried allowed, So you would figure they would,
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  Speaker 1: you know, they should be able to hold Texas more
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  Speaker 1: in the Georgia Arizona State range than the Clemson range.
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  Speaker 1: But we will all find out together on Friday night
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  Speaker 1: at Jerry World seven p thirty Eastern kickoff for that game.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna have all sorts of coverage for you this week,
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  Speaker 1: starting on Wednesday with those team arrivals and starting and
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  Speaker 1: then we'll have a head coach presser on Thursday. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have a lot of stuff to talk about. We'll
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  Speaker 1: see how much stuff we can do around town. We
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  Speaker 1: have grand plans for all of this stuff, and it's like, well,
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  Speaker 1: but if it's snowing, we might just sort of be
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  Speaker 1: stuck at the hotel, so we might have to get
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  Speaker 1: an extended live show at some point, maybe do some
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  Speaker 1: you know, that may be something we try and do
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  Speaker 1: on Wednesday during the day if everyone's voice is holding
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  Speaker 1: up okay after weeks of bowl travel, and then we'll
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