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Ohio State vs. Oregon: Buckeye Team Arrival In Eugene LIVE · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: Yeah, Welcome everyone to Eugene, Oregon, home of the University
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Speaker 1: of Oregon and home of one of the biggest football
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Speaker 1: games of the entire twenty twenty four college football regular
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Speaker 1: season this very weekend. Number two Ohio State buck Eyes
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Speaker 1: here in Eugene to take a number free Oregon and
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Speaker 1: Tony Garderman. This is my first trip to Eugene. Seems
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Speaker 1: like a lovely town. Have already gone and had some
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Speaker 1: wonderful doughnuts from Hungry Hungry Donuts. I assume they have
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Speaker 1: other food, but we haven't gotten. We haven't gotten that
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Speaker 1: far in our experience. But so far it is Uh,
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Speaker 1: we've been a delightful wards.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, no complaints yet. Still early though, but we'll see.
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Speaker 3: I like it.
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Speaker 2: It's nice, nice college town, not too little, yeah, not
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Speaker 2: too big, A lot of nice buildings. Hotel is pretty awesome.
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Speaker 2: So I'm sure the game will match everything we've seen.
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Speaker 2: If the game exceeds the donuts, yeah then and then
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Speaker 2: that's pretty much a common rule. Yeah, as long as
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Speaker 2: the game is better than the donuts should be good.
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Speaker 2: A lot to talk about, a lot we've already talked about,
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Speaker 2: and stuff that we have not even talked about.
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Speaker 3: Deciding the game.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and just to sort of set the scene for you,
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Speaker 1: the Ohio State team is expected to arrive around three
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Speaker 1: fifteen Pacific time six fifteen Eastern time, almost at Atlantic time. Nope,
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Speaker 1: that's not what it's called. I've lived there my whole life.
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Speaker 1: I know what it's called Atlantic standard.
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Speaker 4: Yes, Atlantic standard.
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Speaker 1: Yet three fifteen Pacific time, six fifteen Eastern time. Buck, guys,
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Speaker 1: that's the ETA of the team they will be coming in.
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Speaker 1: I'll step aside here. There's a little uh side road
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Speaker 1: service drive kind of thing where the muscles will pull
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Speaker 1: right up there and we'll get a chance to talk
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Speaker 1: to Brian Day briefly and sort of get some updates picture.
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Speaker 1: Essentially make sure everyone has made the trip that was planned.
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Speaker 1: They actually have been on the ground in you tube
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Speaker 1: for a little while. This is a little different than
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Speaker 1: a Taple State road trip. Normally, they'll drive up from
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Speaker 1: you know, the air show up airport, drive up on
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Speaker 1: the buses, and boom they're done.
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Speaker 4: Because they leave a little earlier because a longer flight.
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Speaker 1: They spent about an hour after they got here doing
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Speaker 1: kind of the second half of their best fridays in
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Speaker 1: football here in Eugene.
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Speaker 4: So they've been on the ground for a little while.
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Speaker 4: We've actually seen someone who have.
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Speaker 1: To say, staffers here already, so they'll be here in
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Speaker 1: about fifteen minutes or so. While we've been here since yesterday,
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Speaker 1: take a chance to run over to the University of
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Speaker 1: Oregon campus earlier today. This is my first time in
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Speaker 1: the state of Oregon, that's first time in Eugene. As
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Speaker 1: the stadium, it's a cool little spot. It is a
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Speaker 1: It is a very cool, very unique spot. It's sort
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Speaker 1: of you can walk around one side of the stadium
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Speaker 1: and you lose the stadium because there's so many trees
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Speaker 1: and stuff there.
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Speaker 4: There's a waterfall on one side.
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Speaker 1: I posted a video set of walking around the stadium,
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Speaker 1: just outside and inside to.
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Speaker 4: Let people find that.
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Speaker 1: That's on our YouTube channel, YouTube dot COM's lunch buck
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Speaker 1: a Huddle fiftcause I was so interested in the in
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Speaker 1: the stadium because it looks it's very different. It's not
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Speaker 1: a huge place at fifty four thousand or so people.
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Speaker 1: It's very loud, but just it's a very different venue
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Speaker 1: from a lot of the other places we go to.
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Speaker 2: Ten expecting their largest crowd ever both in the stadium
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Speaker 2: and in and on top of the box. Over two
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Speaker 2: hundred credentials requested and approved, so I'm expecting a very
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Speaker 2: very loud and this will be a fantastic experience in
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Speaker 2: the press box because the windows were open to the
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Speaker 2: open press coots. So I'm very much looking forward to
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Speaker 2: that one. But yeah, just the interest in all of
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Speaker 2: the national medias here. I saw Ross Ellinger tweeting from
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Speaker 2: the stadium, Tom, So you are not the only one
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Speaker 2: who broke in.
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Speaker 3: Somebody else did ye.
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Speaker 4: Hey, that's a technical term.
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Speaker 2: Let's not walk through an open if you don't want
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Speaker 2: your locks picked, don't have pickable locks.
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Speaker 3: Is that what you're saying.
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Speaker 1: If you don't want people to walk into the stadium,
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Speaker 1: don't leave all the doors open with no sign that
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Speaker 1: you shouldn't go into the stadium.
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Speaker 2: Feels like a trapped that they let you in and
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Speaker 2: then you're shooting video and photos of it.
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Speaker 3: They're like, were you here? You have no proof?
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Speaker 4: One we're shooting video. I don't know what it was.
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Speaker 2: And they posted it on our YouTube account and tweeted
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Speaker 2: it from my phone.
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Speaker 1: Seems like probably a Kevin thing if you ask me, yes,
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Speaker 1: but you didn't ask me, So we'll just move on
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Speaker 1: the game itself. Buck I's favored by about three points
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Speaker 1: last I saw, which is interesting because three points obviously
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Speaker 1: suggest boy anyone's game very close. I have not seen
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Speaker 1: a whole heck of a lot of people picking Oregon
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Speaker 1: in this game to a degree that is either, you know,
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Speaker 1: depending on how the game comes out, that either means
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Speaker 1: that well, everyone knew something and the line was weird,
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Speaker 1: or everyone's missing something obvious and Vegas knows something. Because
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Speaker 1: sometimes you get one of those and sometimes you get
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Speaker 1: the other one and after the game everyone goes, well,
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Speaker 1: of course it was this.
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Speaker 4: Is this a trap?
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Speaker 3: What do we not know?
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Speaker 1: Well?
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Speaker 2: And you know, we were just asked a little bit
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Speaker 2: ago how we're feeling about it, and my thought was
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Speaker 2: every offense defense on the media is feeling like Ohio State.
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Speaker 2: And if everybody is feeling this way, a three point
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Speaker 2: line is not indicative of how people are feeling about this,
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Speaker 2: and so there might be some some sway back to
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Speaker 2: the other side when you see the majority and the
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Speaker 2: Oregon media people that I've talked to that I've heard
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Speaker 2: from have also been no different than people that that
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Speaker 2: cover Ohio State in terms of, yeah, Ohio State plays
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Speaker 2: their a game they're good win. Oregon needs to play
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Speaker 2: their A game in order to win, whereas does Ohio
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Speaker 2: State need to play their A game to win. A
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Speaker 2: B plus game would probably win it, assuming they're able
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Speaker 2: to lower the grades of the Ducks themselves.
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Speaker 3: But it is a little I can't say concerning because
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Speaker 3: I'm not playing.
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Speaker 2: But it's interesting that so much of what we're seeing
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Speaker 2: right now, and granted I haven't seen many like national
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Speaker 2: picks of you know, the game day will be tomorrow
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Speaker 2: and whatever, and once we know what leak courses doing,
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Speaker 2: we'll know who's gonna win. But like, I don't know
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Speaker 2: if the national media is reflecting what we're seeing from
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Speaker 2: these two beats.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and generally the folks on the beat are going
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Speaker 1: to have a pretty decent sense for and I'm saying
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Speaker 1: this sentence like it's not self complimentary, but you're gonna
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Speaker 1: have a decent sense for some of the minutia around
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Speaker 1: the game, some of the little factors around the game.
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Speaker 4: And in this game, it feels like it might be.
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Speaker 1: It's it's a little bit of a within a narrow
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Speaker 1: point spread game, a matchup games what Ohios did calls it.
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Speaker 1: In a game where the talent is relatively similar. A
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Speaker 1: lot of times, it's just the little stuff. And if
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Speaker 1: you look at hey, Ohio State has not had like
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Speaker 1: ways for color games boy when they have him looking
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Speaker 1: at different defense and where are the questions on Oregon's
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Speaker 1: offensive line, Well, they're in the middle of the offensive line.
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Speaker 1: That's where the sort of questions are. And it feels
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Speaker 1: like they took a big step when they made that
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Speaker 1: change where they kicked their guard over the center, and
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Speaker 1: that was kind of like the middle of the ways
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Speaker 1: He's take game. And they've looked much better since then,
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Speaker 1: but it's still it's not a completely settled thing. It
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Speaker 1: feels like when you're in a game that's potentially as
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Speaker 1: tight as this one could be, that's the kind of thing,
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Speaker 1: you know, that's the kind of magnitude of the things
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Speaker 1: that are going to decide it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I'm just wondering if you're talking about where
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Speaker 2: are the biggest mismatches in this game for either side?
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Speaker 2: As I see some police officer cars down there, which yeah,
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Speaker 2: it could be traffic or could mean.
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Speaker 1: Well, he's he's parked right now, so I'm going to
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Speaker 1: guess it is not impacting right now the officer.
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Speaker 3: Coming through the shot right now.
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Speaker 1: He's new here, first time numbering in Ohio State team arrival,
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Speaker 1: So yes, yes, well coach, the kids are big on
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Speaker 1: vibes nowadays, like it's one of the lives around.
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Speaker 3: This team is getting ready for the Pigs one.
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Speaker 1: So far.
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Speaker 3: Wow, we had a good trip out here and just
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Speaker 3: cut off.
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Speaker 1: The plane headed over to a local field because the
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Speaker 1: guy's moving around a little bit stretched out.
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Speaker 3: And having a lot of energy.
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Speaker 1: So we're staying on buck eye time, So having dinner
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Speaker 1: at seven o'clock and get him to bet around nine thirty.
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Speaker 1: Have you guys talked about the top three match at
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Speaker 1: the closer?
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Speaker 4: It's gotten just kind of embracing the challenge that's.
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Speaker 1: About to come to mid No, we've known this game
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Speaker 1: is coming for a long time, where guys are fired
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Speaker 1: up and we've had a great way of practice.
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Speaker 2: Run you personally, to do you get a little more
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Speaker 2: reduced for a game line is of course, yes, you're excited,
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Speaker 2: he explains, it's why you're at Ohio.
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Speaker 1: State to playing games like this, and you know, just
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Speaker 1: it's gonna be a great atmosphere and you know our
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Speaker 1: guys are fired up.
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Speaker 4: Playing this game. So my how did the walk through
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Speaker 4: go good?
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Speaker 2: Everybody's good, But he's locked in and so you know, we'll.
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Speaker 1: We'll wake up in normal time, So you know, we
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Speaker 1: will change our clocks to to buck eye time and
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Speaker 1: to wake up in our normal time.
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Speaker 3: Going through a routine and to get over there and
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Speaker 3: get rid of role is s Bill Howard.
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Speaker 4: Being through something like this give you a little bit
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Speaker 4: of comfort.
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Speaker 3: They's played in big games.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think you know Will's again had a good
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Speaker 1: way to practice.
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Speaker 3: He's excited to play in this game. And like you said,
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Speaker 3: he you know, he's.
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Speaker 1: An experienced guy, so ye're excited for him, but excited.
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Speaker 4: For all of our guys. Played a motan god he
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Speaker 4: goes to that.
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Speaker 3: Well, I've head coach Ryan Day. It's easier to do that.
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Speaker 3: You have a receivers, haveter quarterback.
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Speaker 2: They just need the tackles in the time, and not
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Speaker 2: just at tackles because there will be twists and all sorts.
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Speaker 3: Of things like that. But give him the time to
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Speaker 3: throw the ball.
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Speaker 2: And I know there are concerns on Oregon side about
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Speaker 2: their secondary holding up. If a Lohio State's offensive line
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Speaker 2: holds up, I think the expectation is that the Oregon
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Speaker 2: Secondary probably Wolves.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's We've talked a bunch about Jabar Mohammad,
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Speaker 1: who's an outside corner for Oregon. Very talented, veteran player,
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Speaker 1: proven he played, He's on.
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Speaker 4: His third school.
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Speaker 1: He started his career at Oklahoma State playing for Jim Knowles,
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Speaker 1: then went to Washington Oregon.
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Speaker 4: Very very talented player. But he's five tens. He's listed
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Speaker 4: at five tens.
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Speaker 1: So how well is he going to hold up against Smith?
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Speaker 1: How well is he gonna hold up against I mean,
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Speaker 1: oh does not.
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Speaker 4: Have short wide receivers.
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Speaker 1: He's not going to be in the slot against the
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Speaker 1: maca Buca, So he's gonna be out against Carnel Tate
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Speaker 1: or Jeremiah Smith. And then there's the other side where
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Speaker 1: you probably don't have someone quite as good as Muhamad.
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Speaker 4: So this is one.
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Speaker 1: Where if they're able to run the ball, and therefore
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Speaker 1: Oregon has to dedicate more resources to the run and
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Speaker 1: they can pass protect Will Howard, you could see some
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Speaker 1: big place for the air from that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think pretty much everybody expects Ohio State to
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Speaker 2: be able to run the ball.
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Speaker 3: It would be a surprise if they are shut down.
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Speaker 2: How to like, you know, three yards to carries, you know, right,
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Speaker 2: thirty carries for ninety yards. I don't think people expect that.
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Speaker 2: If they do, then this game is completely wide open. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: and not looking great for Ohio State. But I do
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Speaker 2: expect them to really focus on establishing the run. And
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Speaker 2: everything that we've seen to this point tells me that
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Speaker 2: they can run the ball on Oregon. It's stuff we've
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Speaker 2: seen from whether it's Boise State rushing for two hundred
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Speaker 2: and seven yards something like that against the twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: one yards rather against Oregon. So if Boise State could
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Speaker 2: do that with the best running back in the nation,
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Speaker 2: shouldn't Ohio State be able to do something similar with
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Speaker 2: a better passing attack and two of the best running backs.
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Speaker 4: In the nation, better offensive line.
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Speaker 2: Yes, for sure. So I think it's a better defense
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Speaker 2: now than it was then. But still I'm gonna be
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Speaker 2: very surprised if faire hell to you one hundred and
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Speaker 2: twenty hundred and thirty yards rushing.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I think it's possible, and Oregon winning the game.
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Speaker 1: That's probably a big chunk of you know, a big
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Speaker 1: pathway to how that happens. If ah a stick and
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Speaker 1: run the ball, that really narrows the road to a
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Speaker 1: potential win for Ohio. For Oregon, at that point it
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Speaker 1: becomes probably turnovers or hey, the Oregon offense has a
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Speaker 1: great game, and that's also a possibility. They've got some
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Speaker 1: very talented players there as well, But it feels like
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Speaker 1: Ohio State. If you just take the talent across the
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Speaker 1: field and you're sticking teams, you're picking more of the
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Speaker 1: Buckeyes than you are the Ducks.
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Speaker 4: For the first chunk of that draft.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I was.
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Speaker 2: I think it was Dane Brugler of the Athletic put
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Speaker 2: out a list of the top thirty draft eligible players
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Speaker 2: right now, and so of course you don't have Jeremiah
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Speaker 2: Smith or anything like that, but I think the first three.
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Speaker 3: Or four players were Ohio State. Bucket.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I think Tyler Williams may have been never
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Speaker 2: of that group. So that's where I'm taking the The
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Speaker 2: mismatch with Tyler Quims against the interior of the organ line,
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Speaker 2: it's probably the biggest mismatch.
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Speaker 3: I think the second one might be maybe.
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Speaker 2: Oregon's safeties against the rest of Ohio State's passing attack,
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Speaker 2: whether that's you know, not necessarily the tight ends, but
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Speaker 2: getting over top keeping things from going to taking tails
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Speaker 2: on the crossers and some things like that.
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Speaker 3: I think I feel like Will Howard likes what he's
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Speaker 3: going to.
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Speaker 1: See you, he should like assuming the offensive line holds up.
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Speaker 1: And I feel like prefacing a lot of this with
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Speaker 1: assuming that, but assuming that the offensive line and assuming
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Speaker 1: that they're able to all and assuming that they're able
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Speaker 1: to keep you know, keep the organ safeties pentally in
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Speaker 1: the box. Some of those throws down the field should
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Speaker 1: be should be open there for him, and we've seen
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Speaker 1: him be pretty solid in the short intermediate passing game.
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Speaker 1: You're not You don't necessarily this is not a game
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Speaker 1: where it feels like Will Howard needs to win the
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Speaker 1: game for you.
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Speaker 4: But if Bill Howard just plays.
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Speaker 1: Solidly and doesn't lose the game for you, that's probably
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Speaker 1: more or less what you need.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, sixty five completion and fifty yards two
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Speaker 2: touchdowns or whatever. That's kind of the low end of
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Speaker 2: the standard that he's done this here, and we know.
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Speaker 3: He can do more.
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Speaker 2: But yeah, and I know people we've talked about the
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Speaker 2: lack of a deep shot, a consistent deep shot, an
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Speaker 2: in stride deep shot. They're still going to take some shots.
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Speaker 2: I don't know that you necessarily need that in this game.
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Speaker 2: I think we needs it more than a longer state
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Speaker 2: to connect on.
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Speaker 3: Some of those.
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Speaker 4: Uh So, I guess we've we had some cutting out
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Speaker 4: a little bit. Brian.
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Speaker 1: They interview just sort of the basic summary of that
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Speaker 1: is that ryanstick out here. Trip was fine. They split
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Speaker 1: up their best fridays in football. They normally will do.
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Speaker 4: That in Columbus and then get on the plane and go.
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Speaker 1: Because they had it set across it's across country flight
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Speaker 1: and they wanted to stay on Eastern time, then they
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Speaker 1: had to kind of cut short their early thing. So
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Speaker 1: they landed in Eugen one one in the Pacific times
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Speaker 1: of four fifteen or so Eastern time, went to uh
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Speaker 1: you know, I think it was a park or some
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Speaker 1: kind of a sports facility, just kind of let the
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Speaker 1: guys then round a little bit, kind of get get
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Speaker 1: your legs shaken out after a long flight, and then
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Speaker 1: came back over here that they're staying on Eastern and
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Speaker 1: Eastern Eastern time all night. And now now I'm brilliant
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Speaker 1: my head on that they're staying in Eastern time this
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Speaker 1: whole trip. Mind did call it Buckeye Time. There's no
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Speaker 1: no reason no reason to pig standard yet. Yes, no,
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Speaker 1: we're still bluck eyed daily, yes, blucky daylight time. No
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Speaker 1: reason to mess with that right now, Just stay on,
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Speaker 1: stay on your schedule and move, you know, move, you know,
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Speaker 1: keep keep things exactly because this is a game that's
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Speaker 1: at seven thirty Eastern Eastern time, so I think it's
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Speaker 1: actually seven thirty six I think Eastern time, So there's
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Speaker 1: no reason.
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Speaker 4: Yeah it's four.
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Speaker 1: Thirty six out here. That doesn't matter, Like this is
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Speaker 1: this is a game where you can just stay on.
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Speaker 1: It's going to be the same schedule you add for
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Speaker 1: the Michigan State game.
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Speaker 4: A couple of ways to God lost them there on
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Speaker 4: the road. So that that was kind of a brief summary.
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Speaker 1: Nothing shocking in terms of, hey, we found out this
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Speaker 1: guy didn't make the trip or the boy there's concerns about.
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Speaker 4: This or that it was pretty pretty pro formed. Sometimes
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Speaker 4: those are really informative. This was kind of a.
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Speaker 3: I think I think the cell phone thing is interesting.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that they somehow allow the time change to take
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Speaker 2: a fact on the player's phones.
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Speaker 1: Is that.
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Speaker 4: I think that that's what he said. He didn't he
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Speaker 4: didn't specifically say, and we did that.
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Speaker 3: This was kind of it's it's interesting. I think it's
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Speaker 3: a very good idea.
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Speaker 4: Just yeah, to really, if you really.
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Speaker 2: Want to stay on buck eye time, then your phones
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Speaker 2: should reflect that because.
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Speaker 3: We're only staring at our phones.
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Speaker 4: Yea three hours of.
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Speaker 3: Total over the course of yeah, eight's been waking hours.
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Speaker 1: So now to I guess, let's take a look at
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Speaker 1: sort of the flip side of this.
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Speaker 4: How does the organ win this game?
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Speaker 1: And this is kind of that that's a ridiculous way
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Speaker 1: to frame this question because they're a three point underd
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Speaker 1: doll so it's not it's not like this is an
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Speaker 1: unthinkable thing. What what what do you look at from
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Speaker 1: an Ohio State perspective?
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Speaker 4: Lot better than that.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think the offense, handling the crowd is always
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Speaker 2: going to be a factor. Will Howard being consistently avoiding
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Speaker 2: the mistake. There's one or two factories that we always
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Speaker 2: talked about and if we can't avoid that, don't allow
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Speaker 2: organ to connect with those to capitalize on those.
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Speaker 3: I think that's two of the big things.
17:29
Speaker 2: The ability to for Oregon to run the ball, and
17:33
Speaker 2: it will make this a much more difficult game for
17:35
Speaker 2: Ohio State and s if they can establish the run,
17:38
Speaker 2: If they if that first drive that will probably be successful,
17:43
Speaker 2: can get some momentum and become a second drive and
17:46
Speaker 2: maybe that fourth drive, and just continue to build the amediment.
17:49
Speaker 2: I think what we also need to see or to
17:51
Speaker 2: do is change some things up. And when you have
17:55
Speaker 2: Ohio State, who has outscored opponents eight teen to ten
18:02
Speaker 2: second half this year, Ohio State has made some fantastic adjustments.
18:05
Speaker 2: Opponents have not a just well Oregon will they do
18:08
Speaker 2: as better than anybody else has to this point.
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Speaker 4: So how do you?
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Speaker 1: I mean, this is a renowned venue for follow you,
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Speaker 1: this is this is it's fifty four thousand, but it's
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Speaker 1: an unusual venue structurally. You've got a huge crowd on
18:24
Speaker 1: one side and not much.
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Speaker 4: Crowd on the other.
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Speaker 1: The crowd if you haven't been here, and I had
18:29
Speaker 1: not been here inside the stadium until just a couple
18:31
Speaker 1: of hours ago, there's a side that's really big, very tall,
18:36
Speaker 1: with a big wall behind.
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Speaker 4: That's the crowd that's right behind the visiting bench. So
18:42
Speaker 4: the on the other side is not so high.
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Speaker 1: The end zones are, especially the en zone on the
18:46
Speaker 1: left hand side, very low.
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Speaker 3: In spots, so the sound just bounced off.
18:50
Speaker 4: The sound well, the sound.
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Speaker 1: Everyone who's yelling is yelling right down at the field,
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Speaker 1: right down at the Opio State bench. So that's the
18:59
Speaker 1: loudest spot on the field is the visiting bench, Which
19:02
Speaker 1: makes sense. That's what you would want as a stadium designer.
19:05
Speaker 1: This is this is not the first time most of
19:08
Speaker 1: these guys have played any louder hostile bank you but
19:10
Speaker 1: it'll be the loudest and hot most hostile venue they've played.
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Speaker 4: In this year.
19:15
Speaker 1: Any concern about false starts, any of that kind of
19:20
Speaker 1: stuff that you sometimes see in those.
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Speaker 2: Level I mean you're gonna have those don't want to
19:24
Speaker 2: go there on silks, and they can do that in
19:26
Speaker 2: a number of different ways, but it's still I mean,
19:29
Speaker 2: there's a reason hopeful advantage in the crowd is important.
19:32
Speaker 2: They matter, they impact the game. That's why I will
19:36
Speaker 2: continue to be keeping Ohier States too well on first
19:38
Speaker 2: down and kind of quiet. Agree, if you get first down,
19:42
Speaker 2: then it ramps up for second down, up for third.
19:45
Speaker 3: You get a good seven yards on.
19:47
Speaker 2: First down, you have to the crowd has to regroup,
19:50
Speaker 2: but you can only get to you to regroup. I mean,
19:52
Speaker 2: been a student seeing the struggle here. Look, I'm gonna
19:57
Speaker 2: give you some of these after Hey, I can't, I
20:00
Speaker 2: can't just keep doing this. So I think that's why
20:03
Speaker 2: the offense first downs can take first downs and third
20:06
Speaker 2: down on second downs, first downs and third towns is.
20:08
Speaker 1: Where you go to kill crowd. Yeah, and and and
20:12
Speaker 1: the ends of yeah you can. You can kill the
20:13
Speaker 1: crowd with cold plays eighty five yards. You can kill
20:17
Speaker 1: the crowd with one play eighty five yards too. Both
20:19
Speaker 1: of those are different but very effective in their own way.
20:23
Speaker 1: So I think it's timed to sort of take a
20:26
Speaker 1: look at what we're expecting to happen. We both put
20:29
Speaker 1: it in our score predictions already doesn't have published at
20:31
Speaker 1: bucke huddle dot com.
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Speaker 3: What did you pick?
20:34
Speaker 2: I went to thirty one twenty four Ohio State, and
20:39
Speaker 2: the thing is, like we're talking about very very powerful
20:42
Speaker 2: Ohio State is forty one, but seven point game, like
20:45
Speaker 2: this is anybody's game, literally until they glowed the final
20:49
Speaker 2: wist't But I did go thirty one to twenty four.
20:51
Speaker 3: Wouldn't shock me if that last.
20:53
Speaker 2: Stepsdown is in the fourth quarter, wouldn't shock me if
20:58
Speaker 2: Flyer State added the room but maybe takes it towards
21:01
Speaker 2: the end. I feel like I have the confidence that
21:05
Speaker 2: there should be more than a seven point game, but
21:07
Speaker 2: also the experience, the intelligence not to go beyond seven points.
21:12
Speaker 3: Tough.
21:12
Speaker 2: I want not be silly enough, foolish enough to be
21:16
Speaker 2: puts or seven points.
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Speaker 3: Sorry, Tom, what is your score prediction?
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Speaker 1: I went with thirty one twenty and we'll have a
21:25
Speaker 1: state just thirty one twenty Ohio State. And this is
21:29
Speaker 1: a game where you can have one turnover and it
21:32
Speaker 1: could turn out to be thirty eight twenty, or you
21:34
Speaker 1: could have one turnover for an conductor not to be
21:37
Speaker 1: twenty four twenty, or it could be twenty seven twenty
21:39
Speaker 1: four the other way there. This is not a game
21:42
Speaker 1: where you've got a huge margin to work with you.
21:45
Speaker 4: I think this is a game. This is one of
21:46
Speaker 4: the first times this season then we've.
21:48
Speaker 1: Seen a game where legitimately the game could swing on
21:51
Speaker 1: one or two plays.
21:53
Speaker 4: The Typically you feel pretty good about the chances.
21:57
Speaker 1: If they're able to kind of contain organs wrong, you
22:00
Speaker 1: feel forget about their chances. Well, we haven't really talked
22:03
Speaker 1: about this, but the organ passing game is somewhat limited.
22:07
Speaker 1: You look at the Dylan Gabriel passing chart and boy
22:09
Speaker 1: he throws He's lefty, and he throws a lot of
22:11
Speaker 1: stuff on the left side the field in the middle
22:12
Speaker 1: of the field, not much ghost the right side of
22:14
Speaker 1: the field. Are they saving stuff? Are they gonna you know?
22:17
Speaker 1: Is that something that you know? I know that you
22:19
Speaker 1: know it feels like a tendency.
22:22
Speaker 4: That is based on that's what this guy is captable doing.
22:25
Speaker 4: So you don't necessarily want to pull him out of
22:27
Speaker 4: his comfort zone.
22:28
Speaker 2: But I don't believe he's thrown a single pass the
22:31
Speaker 2: right side of the field beyond twenty.
22:32
Speaker 3: Yards this season.
22:34
Speaker 4: Yeah, I don't think.
22:34
Speaker 3: I think he's only throwing eighteen tall beyond twenty yards.
22:37
Speaker 3: So you're talking pretty a game at this point. So
22:40
Speaker 3: you know, how comfortably will he be doing?
22:42
Speaker 2: Yeah, at this game, probably less control than ever before.
22:47
Speaker 2: If you scheme it up right, happened in a state expression,
22:51
Speaker 2: then do you have an opportunity.
22:53
Speaker 3: But I don't expect him to be throwing right just
22:56
Speaker 3: because that's not that's.
22:57
Speaker 2: Not his arm, that's not his arm strength, that's not
22:59
Speaker 2: his making keeps things ahead of him that way because
23:03
Speaker 2: he's a lefty, and don't.
23:05
Speaker 3: Don't sleep over there in the corner. Yeah, Also, you.
23:09
Speaker 4: Don't expect you know, the safety over there problem.
23:12
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I talked to Rossville about this week today,
23:15
Speaker 1: the third at Ross Fulton show this week.
23:17
Speaker 4: How crazy is this week?
23:18
Speaker 1: We're doing not to but three Rossfolton shows specifically to
23:21
Speaker 1: talk about the Morgan offense, the Org defense, some of
23:24
Speaker 1: the specific stuff to watch for there. That is already
23:28
Speaker 1: on the huddleboard end by Jeffrey by Seakhouse at Buckyheble
23:30
Speaker 1: dot com. We will have that posted publicly a little
23:32
Speaker 1: later on this evening. But we've got a lot of stuff.
23:35
Speaker 4: So it's Friday night.
23:36
Speaker 1: Normally Friday night to arrival, it's like, all right, dust
23:39
Speaker 1: your hands, go to dinner.
23:40
Speaker 4: And we're done.
23:40
Speaker 1: And we still have the Bold Prediction Show that's going
23:43
Speaker 1: to get posted on Friday evening. We have the Ross
23:47
Speaker 1: Fulton third Breakdown that's going to get posted on Thursday
23:50
Speaker 1: evening or Friday evening. We have I just saw a
23:55
Speaker 1: suggestion that we post care Sea Rights positional breakdown.
23:59
Speaker 4: Uh, so that's gonna still get probably posted on Friday evening.
24:03
Speaker 4: We get it.
24:03
Speaker 1: It's gonna be a long Saturday as you're sitting around
24:06
Speaker 1: waiting for this game to start and you're looking for
24:08
Speaker 1: stuff to do.
24:09
Speaker 4: We get it, so we'll have that stuff for you.
24:11
Speaker 1: We will probably be going to be back down in
24:13
Speaker 1: Eugene relatively early tomorrow as well. We'll have plenty more
24:16
Speaker 1: live coverage from here as we count down to the
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24:33
Speaker 4: It's been a busy week. More to com game well.
24:46
Speaker 1: Anyway, thank you guys all for joining us. I hope
24:49
Speaker 1: you guys enjoyed the team arrival.
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Speaker 4: We'll have much more coverage for you later.
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