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2025 Ohio State Football Schedule Revealed · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Thursday, December twelfth, th
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Speaker 1: Im'm your host, tom Or. The Tennessee game is in
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Speaker 1: nine days, the game against Michigan in three hundred and
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Speaker 1: fifty two days. Today, we're going to be talking about
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Speaker 1: all of the games that happened between the Tennessee game
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Speaker 1: and the game against Michigan. Maybe some playoff games as well.
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Speaker 1: That's still TBD. One thing that is not TBD the
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Speaker 1: regular season schedule for the Ohio State Buckeyes in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five. Going to be breaking that all down with
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Speaker 1: Tony Gerderman at Bucky Huddle dot com. Tony Schedule just
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Speaker 1: dropped lots of interesting stuff on here, some good, some
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Speaker 1: less good. Let's start with the good news. This is
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Speaker 1: one we knew already. Season opens August thirtieth, and it
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Speaker 1: opens with the Texas Longhorns coming to Columbus to face
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Speaker 1: the Ohio State Buckeyes. They have started the season with
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Speaker 1: a bang at times in the past. This is definitely
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Speaker 1: one of those years where it's like, oh boy, that
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Speaker 1: might be the biggest home game of the season. Week one.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and that's one where you coaches either love it
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Speaker 2: or hate it. They can love it because you can
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Speaker 2: lose it and then gain ground back and it doesn't
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Speaker 2: really hurt you overall. But you have very you have
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Speaker 2: so much less to go on as to what you're
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Speaker 2: going to face. And this what's o Hio State is
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Speaker 2: going to be looking at all of the arch manning
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Speaker 2: snaps from the Longhorns this year and how that, how
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Speaker 2: that went, and how that looked and things like that,
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Speaker 2: and it's gonna be exciting. I just you would think
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Speaker 2: most people would prefer to have that like Week three
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Speaker 2: or something like that. But also you know that this
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Speaker 2: is going to be a huge window and everybody's going
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Speaker 2: to be watching. Twenty years since the last time the
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Speaker 2: Texas Longhorns came into Ohio Stadium with Vince Young and
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Speaker 2: that was a classic. Maybe we'll see another classic in
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Speaker 2: this one. It's gonna be hot, though it'll be hot.
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Speaker 1: It is going to be hot. I think you can
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Speaker 1: probably go ahead and pencil this in as a noon
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Speaker 1: kickoff that that is most likely going to be a
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Speaker 1: Fox game. We'll see maybe they can kind of be
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Speaker 1: able to push it back to prime time, but yeah,
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Speaker 1: that is that is going to be definitely the game
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Speaker 1: of the week. I can pretty much guarantee a college
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Speaker 1: game day is going to be in Columbus and Big
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Speaker 1: newon kickoff and everyone else for that one. So starting
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Speaker 1: the season off with a bang week two September sixth,
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Speaker 1: hosting Grambling and Tony. This one is one that is
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Speaker 1: not so much about quarter one or quarter two, or
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Speaker 1: quarter three or quarter four. This is a lot like
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Speaker 1: when Florida A and M was coming to Columbus in
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Speaker 1: twenty thirteen, and the whole thing was really about, Hey,
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Speaker 1: two of the great marching bands in the entire nation
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Speaker 1: performing together on the same field, maybe sequentially, maybe together.
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Speaker 1: We'll see how they do it. But Florida A and
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Speaker 1: M then didn't bring the band and it just turned
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Speaker 1: to do a terrible game. Grambling, assuming they bring the band,
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Speaker 1: this one's all about halftime.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it is a name and so there is
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Speaker 2: some interest there. But yeah, an FCS opponent, but a
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Speaker 2: power for band, if you will, And that'll be an
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Speaker 2: experience for everybody, and it'll be something to look forward to,
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Speaker 2: and it's an opportunity to come down off of maybe
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Speaker 2: the high of the Texas game and then kind of
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Speaker 2: settle into things. But it will also be about the
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Speaker 2: fourth quarter and getting some of those young guys some
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Speaker 2: room and some some wraps and some experience.
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Speaker 1: Next up week three, September thirteenth, against the Ohio Bobcats.
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Speaker 1: Another great marching band, the Marching One ten if you
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Speaker 1: are not familiar with them, a little more casual approach,
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Speaker 1: you know, not quite as militaristic as the Ohio State
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Speaker 1: marching band, but definitely a great marching band as well.
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Speaker 1: Another one where they're going to have a new head
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Speaker 1: coach this year. Jimalvin just left and took the Charlotte
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Speaker 1: job after the Bobcats won their first MAC title since
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Speaker 1: nineteen sixty eight, So a lot going on down there
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Speaker 1: in Athens. Will be a new look for the Bobcats,
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Speaker 1: but should be another one where you know, this should
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Speaker 1: be one that Ohio State can play some play, some
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Speaker 1: depth and get you know, get cut a nice check
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Speaker 1: to an in state program that feels like a pretty
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Speaker 1: win win situation.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and Ohio has done well enough that you're not
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Speaker 2: going to be like, this isn't Eastern Michigan or somebody
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Speaker 2: somebody that you might the Buckeyes might overlook and just
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Speaker 2: kind of coast through and even though they may coast
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Speaker 2: through in eastern Michigan. They still put up like seventy
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Speaker 2: three points on them a few years back. This is
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Speaker 2: not that this is going to be a tough program.
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Speaker 2: I'm sure they will be hit via the hit with
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Speaker 2: the transfer portal losses in the spring like they were
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Speaker 2: last year or this year. But it's an opponent that
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Speaker 2: Ohio State has played before, as we know, played a
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Speaker 2: couple of times under Jim Tressel and have not yet
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Speaker 2: beaten Ohio State if you're not counting a vacated game
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Speaker 2: in twenty ten, which nobody is so good in state
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Speaker 2: opponent and something that will should bring in a solid
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Speaker 2: one hundred and five thousand people.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, those games a lot of times. Ohio University has
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Speaker 1: kept it closer than you might think. Also had the
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Speaker 1: famous Rufus punching Brutus picture. Rufus the mascot for Ohio University.
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Speaker 1: Fun fact, his name is Rufus because if you do
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Speaker 1: the Kingdom Philum, class, order, family, genus, species, thing, the
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Speaker 1: order and g us or the genus and species for
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Speaker 1: a bobcat is Rufus Rufus. So there you go. Now
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Speaker 1: you learn something something else you learned, go ahead and
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Speaker 1: schedule your fun family trip for September twentieth. That is
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Speaker 1: the first off week for the Buckeyes. Another early off week.
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Speaker 1: I'm sure that's going to drive Ryan Day a little
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Speaker 1: bit crazy. We'd probably love to have that a little
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Speaker 1: later in the schedule, but it's September twentieth yet again,
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Speaker 1: but that is a chance for them to take a
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Speaker 1: week off before they make their longest trip of the
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Speaker 1: year September twenty seventh one. I am really looking forward
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Speaker 1: to Buck guys heading out to Seattle to take on
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Speaker 1: the Washington Huskies in Husky Stadium. This is one Tony
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Speaker 1: I've had this one on my list in terms of
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Speaker 1: you know, I had Autsen on my list. Up boy,
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Speaker 1: I'd love to see a game there at some point,
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Speaker 1: and for many many years did not ever think, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 1: this will certainly be a conference game for Ohio State
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Speaker 1: going out to Seattle to see the buck Eyes play
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Speaker 1: in Husky Statium. They've done that a couple times in
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Speaker 1: the past decades. I have not made the trip either
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Speaker 1: of the recent times they've done it. I'm looking forward
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Speaker 1: to making the trip this time.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, this is the fun family trip that I'm looking
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Speaker 2: for or too frankly getting out there and seeing all
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Speaker 2: of it, and we know it's one of the great
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Speaker 2: college football spectacles and views, and so that's a fun one.
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Speaker 2: And it's also one again that you know Washington's going
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Speaker 2: to do some things into portal and they're going to
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Speaker 2: bring in some talent, So you can't just go out
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Speaker 2: there and expect to wing it like you're going to
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Speaker 2: have to go win it, and this will be one
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Speaker 2: where you've you should know what you have by that point,
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Speaker 2: so you'll go in there expecting to see Washington's best
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Speaker 2: and they'll have a few games under their belt as well,
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Speaker 2: so you should get.
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Speaker 1: It next up October fourth against Minnesota, And we're revealing
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Speaker 1: these one game at a time on the schedule, and
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Speaker 1: this is a rather notable game mostly because of what
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Speaker 1: isn't happening around it, and we'll get to that in
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Speaker 1: a minute, but PJ. Fleck and the Gophers coming to
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Speaker 1: Columbus on October fourth. Anytime you get Minnesota on the schedule,
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Speaker 1: you always kind of win, some go home or away,
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Speaker 1: and then you go, what month is it going to happen?
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Speaker 1: Because one the last time they played up at Minnesota,
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Speaker 1: it was Labor Day, weekend. That's the time you want
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Speaker 1: to play Minnesota on the road. At Minnesota, you don't
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Speaker 1: want to get them at the end of the schedule.
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Speaker 1: Buck guys, get them home and early. So this should
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Speaker 1: be one where Ohio State should be fine.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it should be fine, much better than the twenty
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Speaker 2: fourteen trip to Minnesota when it was I believe fourteen
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Speaker 2: degrees at kickoff shouldn't be. Barring any kind of space catastrophe,
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Speaker 2: we should be okay with the weather in this one. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: this is kind of just sandwiched in there. It's a
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Speaker 2: This really feels like as we get into it, just
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Speaker 2: a Big ten West schedule, like Ohio State has been
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Speaker 2: put into the Big ten West.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, there is quite a bit of Big ten West
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Speaker 1: coming up next up October eleventh at Illinois. This one
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Speaker 1: is low key exciting for me because this is just
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Speaker 1: this is the one classic Big ten stadium I have
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Speaker 1: never made it to. I don't know why they've the
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Speaker 1: Ohio State is not in any time that I've been
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Speaker 1: on the beat, played at Illinois. They were supposed to
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Speaker 1: do it in twenty twenty that got canceled because of
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Speaker 1: COVID and it just've just somehow never made it. RRESSI
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Speaker 1: is that I haven't been missing a whole like of
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Speaker 1: a lot, either in terms of stadium or location, but
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Speaker 1: certainly place at Ohio State has not played in quite
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Speaker 1: a while. And Tony October eleventh, I got to ask,
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Speaker 1: what's the forecast in terms of win?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, probably not great and low key exciting is the
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Speaker 2: most complimentary thing that has ever been said about playing
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Speaker 2: at Illinois. So congrats to you, Tom. You are the
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Speaker 2: last person looking forward to being in Champagne. But that's
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Speaker 2: a nice, nice little college town. We don't always get
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Speaker 2: to experience that aspect of places. But again, every game
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Speaker 2: that you go on the road in the Big Ten
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Speaker 2: is a potential loss. So sometimes it's better to have
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Speaker 2: a game like this where it's like, well, maybe you
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Speaker 2: can take a little bit of a breather. But also
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Speaker 2: Brett Bielima has Illinois ranked, so again, this is not
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Speaker 2: something that you can just well, this will be easy one,
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Speaker 2: and I don't think that's the case.
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Speaker 1: And we'll see what Illinois looks like this time next year,
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Speaker 1: because that's another program where there's a lot of guys
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Speaker 1: might leave in the portal, guy as might come in
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Speaker 1: in the portal get a little more year to year
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Speaker 1: fluctuation there than you do probably at a lot of
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Speaker 1: other programs of that caliber. They had a very good
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Speaker 1: year this year. They had a very good year two
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Speaker 1: years ago when they still had Ryan Walters as a
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Speaker 1: defensive coordinator, and then they kind of had a down
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Speaker 1: year in the middle. We will see whether it is
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Speaker 1: up or down Illinois this year. Continuing the tour of
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Speaker 1: the Big Ten West October eighteenth, here's one that I'm
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Speaker 1: sure everyone is looking for to Tony. The Buckeyes at
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin Madison always right up near the top of my
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Speaker 1: list of my favorite Big Ten road trips. Very very
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Speaker 1: much looking forward to going back there. We were just
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Speaker 1: up there two years ago. It had been a couple
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Speaker 1: of years before that since the Buckeyes had been there.
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Speaker 1: But back in Madison October eighteenth, and again a lot
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Speaker 1: like Minnesota. Yeah, it might be a little chilly, but boy,
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Speaker 1: October eighteenth is a whole lot better in Madison than
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Speaker 1: November eighteenth.
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Speaker 2: We're going to get to go to the dairy store again. Yes,
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Speaker 2: so that was very very good. We highly recommend is
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Speaker 2: a bad cock dairy store? Is that what it was?
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Speaker 1: That sounds right?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, on campus there. You got to look for it,
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Speaker 2: I think. But yeah, it's a good place and it
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Speaker 2: is a very good college town. And this one, since
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Speaker 2: it's not like Halloween weekend, it should be a little tamer,
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Speaker 2: so bring your family. But always a recommended trip to
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Speaker 2: Wisconsin because that is one of the one of the
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Speaker 2: best college towns. That's what a college town should be.
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Speaker 1: As I like to say, Yeah, I always have Nebraska
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Speaker 1: at the top of my list of my favorite Big
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Speaker 1: Ten road trips. Wisconsin is kind of like one a
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Speaker 1: Eugene who's kind of up at the top. Now after
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Speaker 1: going there, I'm looking forward to Seattle a little bit
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Speaker 1: of a different look, and you know, Chicago. I mean,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of good road trips in the Big Ten.
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin though, definitely if you have not been there, that
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Speaker 1: is that is a treat yourself to a trip to Wisconsin.
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Speaker 1: I've never known anyone who has said, you know what,
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Speaker 1: I didn't have a lot of fun in Madison. Like,
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Speaker 1: there's a lot of ways to have fun in Madison.
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Speaker 1: You can choose your own lane and you will probably
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Speaker 1: have a very good time there. And then most important
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Speaker 1: for a trip to Madison, Tony, everyone has a week
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Speaker 1: off to recover afterwards. October twenty fifth the buck Ey's
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Speaker 1: second off week, so this is again a little earlier
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Speaker 1: than you'd probably choose to have your second off week.
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Speaker 1: This is also the point where we're going to take
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Speaker 1: a look back and hey, between September thirteenth and November one,
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Speaker 1: the Buckeyes play one home game. That's pretty stupid, that's
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Speaker 1: not great. That is probably not the way you would
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Speaker 1: draw it up. It feels bizarre that you would do
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Speaker 1: it that way. But consecutively after that September thirteenth game
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Speaker 1: against Ohio, off at Washington, home from Minnesota at Illinois
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Speaker 1: at Wisconsin off again, so six weeks, one home game
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Speaker 1: that's going to be deeply weird to have September thirteenth,
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Speaker 1: and then one home game until November. So that's not
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Speaker 1: when you would probably choose to do it. Not exactly
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Speaker 1: how you would choose to draw it up, but that's
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Speaker 1: how it is. So there's no complaining. You move on
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Speaker 1: with life, and they will move on with life. On
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Speaker 1: November first against Penn State. Now I have as of
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Speaker 1: this time not seeing the Penn State schedule, but ohis
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Speaker 1: State getting week off before Penn State and also getting
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Speaker 1: Penn State at home. Those feel like those both could
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Speaker 1: be pretty advantageous for the buck Eyes.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and it's always interesting to see look at the
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Speaker 2: BIE weeks, the off weeks and see who is after
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Speaker 2: that and how many of your opponents have off weeks
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Speaker 2: before they play you. That's one of the the the
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Speaker 2: areas of complaint, where why does this team have six
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Speaker 2: of their opponents like have the week off before they
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Speaker 2: get there? And coaches view that as basically punishment. And
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Speaker 2: so anytime you can get a week off before one
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Speaker 2: of your big opponents, I think you you would take that,
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Speaker 2: especially this late ish in the year. And not that
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Speaker 2: this is the same Wisconsin that Ohio State has always played,
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Speaker 2: but back in the day, Wisconsin was always the hardest
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Speaker 2: hitting game for the buck Eyes, so to have a
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Speaker 2: week off after that was always looked forward to. But yeah,
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Speaker 2: I will be interested to see if Penn State also
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Speaker 2: has a week off, if the Big Ten starts going
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Speaker 2: the way of the SEC and protecting their top programs
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Speaker 2: a little.
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Speaker 1: Bit, Yeah, you see that. I mean that was always
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Speaker 1: Alabama and LSU always had a week off before their game.
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Speaker 1: Back when Alabama and LSU was one of the biggest
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Speaker 1: games on the calendar every year. So yeah, it'll be
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Speaker 1: interesting to see if Penn State does get that week
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Speaker 1: off in advance, and then Tony, we always have the
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Speaker 1: conversation about what's the trap game on the schedule, Tony,
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Speaker 1: let me spoil the surprise. The week after Penn State,
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Speaker 1: when Ohio State is in a classic letdown situation, they
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Speaker 1: have to go on the road to the extremely haunted
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Speaker 1: stadium in West Lafayette, Indiana. Hold on to your butts everyone.
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Speaker 1: November eighth, Ohio State at.
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Speaker 2: Purdue atdue new head coach Barry Odom. They're taking over
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Speaker 2: the Boilers, so that will be a new program. You know,
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Speaker 2: there will be plenty of film by the time Ohio
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Speaker 2: State plays that game. But I don't think anybody in
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Speaker 2: the Ohio State sphere ever takes Purdue the road trips lightly.
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Speaker 2: And when you talk to other people about that, they're like,
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Speaker 2: what what are you? This is like Purdue is somewhat
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Speaker 2: a little bit of a higher state kryptonite and not
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Speaker 2: not full fledged kryptonite, but like fools gold kryptonite. But
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Speaker 2: it's still effective because you know, you know, to be
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Speaker 2: scared of it, like don't touch it. It's like the
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Speaker 2: difference between like the coral snake and the other snake,
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Speaker 2: Like the patterns are just a little bit different. You
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Speaker 2: just you're always wary of what you're going to be
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Speaker 2: walking into in West Lafayette.
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Speaker 1: I like the fact Perdue is black and black and
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Speaker 1: old gold are their official colors. I think maybe we
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Speaker 1: change the official gold color to pyrite kryptonite, maybe like
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Speaker 1: fools gold kryptonite, pyrite kryptonite. I don't know. We'll workshop
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Speaker 1: that plenty of time to do that. We'll also figure
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Speaker 1: out who the heck is going to be playing for Purdue,
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Speaker 1: because their entire team is in the transfer portal and
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Speaker 1: they're changing coaching staff, so might be an entirely different
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Speaker 1: Purdue team next year, which, based on this year's Purredue team,
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Speaker 1: would probably be a good thing for Purdue. Next up
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Speaker 1: November fifteenth, UCLA. UCLA, of course, famously is in Los Angeles.
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Speaker 1: This game will not be in Los Angeles. Buck Guy's
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Speaker 1: hosting the Bruins November fifteenth, second year for Deshaun Foster.
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Speaker 1: You figure they're probably better, but it feels like if
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Speaker 1: as it gets through that Purdue game, the incredible stupid
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Speaker 1: letdown trap game spot against Perdue. You should be in
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Speaker 1: decent shape against UCLA in mid November.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. And UCLA is another program that's kind of in
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Speaker 2: flox and you never know who's coming, who's going there,
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Speaker 2: and what they're going to end up with. But I
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Speaker 2: don't think they're an established enough program with the Deshaun
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Speaker 2: Foster just yet to come in and pose any kind
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Speaker 2: of major concerns for the Buckeyes. To me, that's I'll
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Speaker 2: throw a line out there right now, like I don't
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Speaker 2: know seventeen and a half.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, without knowing who's playing for Ohouse Data
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Speaker 1: or who's playing for UCLA. It's also number fifteenth. If
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Speaker 1: you're from Los Angeles, that might be a little that
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Speaker 1: could be just about anything. In Columbus. We have seen
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Speaker 1: a little bit of snow on those days that might
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Speaker 1: not be the most welcoming and hospitable environment for UCLA.
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Speaker 1: So I I might even go a little worth of
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Speaker 1: twenty on that, But obviously a lot of variables will
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Speaker 1: need to be sorted out before anyone will actually let
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Speaker 1: you put money on Ohio State and UCLA in twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty five. Next up, the week before the Michigan game
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Speaker 1: November twenty second. Buck guys hosting Rutgers. They have played
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Speaker 1: Rutgers in the week before the Michigan game a bunch
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Speaker 1: of times. It's always kind of it always kind of
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Speaker 1: goes the same way. Ohio State's a better team than
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Speaker 1: Rutgers and they kind of slug through it. It just
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Speaker 1: feels like just about every year it's either Indiana or
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Speaker 1: Rutgers or Maryland the week before the Michigan game. This
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Speaker 1: time it is Rutgers in Columbus.
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Speaker 2: And I honestly think Ohio State would probably rather have
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Speaker 2: like UCLA than than Rutgers, because Rutgers is just a
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Speaker 2: pain with Greg Ciano, and you know it's not just
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Speaker 2: going to be the straight fight. Rutgers can come out
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Speaker 2: there and they start doing all these karate kicks and
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Speaker 2: you know, just like, come on, let's just can we
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Speaker 2: just stand here in box and they're going to be
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Speaker 2: throwing kicks and you know, here comes who knows what
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Speaker 2: the baseball bat nail sticking out of it. We just
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Speaker 2: play some football? Can we just do some football stuff?
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Speaker 2: And then you've got to do that the week before,
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Speaker 2: you know what, so and it's going to be physical.
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Speaker 2: Rutgers is going to you know, fight hard, and I
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Speaker 2: don't know that they really know how to give up
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Speaker 2: under Greg Ciano. Even though they're not very good, they
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Speaker 2: sometimes play like they're better than they are.
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Speaker 1: Basically, they are a team that is very good in
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Speaker 1: at dragging you into a street fight when they at
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Speaker 1: least a couple times a year with a team that's
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Speaker 1: substantially better than them. So we'll see if they can
17:32
Speaker 1: do that against Ohio State. And then finally, speaking of games,
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Speaker 1: it sometimes turns into street fights or literal fights. November
17:39
Speaker 1: twenty ninth, Buckeyes in an arbor against Michigan to wrap
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Speaker 1: up the season. This is the only one on the
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Speaker 1: conference schedule that we knew exactly where and when everything
17:47
Speaker 1: was going to be. That's why we're able to do
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Speaker 1: the countdown before each show. You know, Tony I, this
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Speaker 1: is one that it would be in Ohio State's best
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Speaker 1: interest to win this game in terms of narrative and
17:57
Speaker 1: Big Ten championship and everything.
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Speaker 2: Else, everything else. Yeah, Ohio State certainly do to get
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Speaker 2: a win over Michigan, but that takes more than that.
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Speaker 2: It's interesting to just look at that's going to be
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Speaker 2: the one that is you're you're just waiting for it,
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Speaker 2: and how much pressure do you put on yourself again
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Speaker 2: to get that win? And maybe maybe do they just
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Speaker 2: let it come to them and then deal with it
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Speaker 2: because it's only going to get bigger and bigger every
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Speaker 2: single week. But there's no avoiding it, not that they
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Speaker 2: want to, Tom. I did see an Ohio lawmaker wanting
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Speaker 2: to make it a felony to plant flags on football
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Speaker 2: fields now, so I don't know if they want to
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Speaker 2: do that now and then or wait until after this
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Speaker 2: game just to see. But yeah, sad state of affairs there.
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Speaker 2: It's it's time for Ohio State, I think, to finally
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Speaker 2: get one. But on the road it's it's much more difficult.
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Speaker 1: It is. But no laws against planting flags in the
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Speaker 1: state of Michigan as of right now. So there you go.
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Speaker 1: It could be could be anyone's game, could be anyone's flag.
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Speaker 1: We will see how that goes. One hundred and fifty
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Speaker 1: two games until the days until the game against Michigan,
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Speaker 1: two hundred and sixty one days until a game against
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Speaker 1: Texas going to be a banger of a twenty twenty
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Speaker 1: five college football season for the Buckeyes. Some really interesting
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Speaker 1: games on there along with a tour of the Big
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Speaker 1: ten West. We'll be there for all of them. Hope
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Speaker 1: of content coming for you this week twenty twenty five.
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Speaker 1: It's great, Okay, now we've talked about it, there is
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Speaker 1: some twenty twenty four football still to handle. Buck Guy's
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Speaker 1: taking on Tennessee next Saturday night in the Horseshoe, eight
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Speaker 1: o'clock primetime under the lights. My state fans have been
19:41
Speaker 1: begging for a primetime game, a meaningful primetime game all
19:44
Speaker 1: year long. Well, friends, you got it coming up next week.
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Speaker 1: We will have full coverage going into that game, Lots
19:51
Speaker 1: of coverage from the Ohio State interviews. We'll get some
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Speaker 1: Tennessee interviews on these shows. Have plenty of rewatch shows
19:56
Speaker 1: as well, rewatching some of the Tennessee's games this year
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Speaker 1: to give you a better scout report, better idea what
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Speaker 1: to expect from the balls. All of that on the
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Speaker 1: guys all for joining us. Have a great day. We'll
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