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4 Things We Learned During Ohio State's 35-16 Win At Rutgers · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Sunday, November fifth, I'm your host,
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  Tom Moore. The Michigan State game is in six days. The game against
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  Michigan in twenty days. Ohio State went on the road on Saturday to Rutgers
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  took care of the Scarlet Nights thirty five to sixteen. It was not quite
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  as easy as the final score might have indicated. Rutgers actually had a nine
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  to seven halftime lead, and then Ohio State remembered that they had Travon Henderson
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  and Marvin Harrison and said do the things that none of their guys can do.
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  And they did and Ohio State lived happily ever after. I'm joined by
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  Kevin noon offucke huddle dot com. This is the second week that they've had
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  Trevon Henderson back after being out for several weeks with an injury. It's a
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  second week he's gone over two hundred total yards of offense and really helped keep
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  this ohiosted offense on track. If you haven't watched the game and you have
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  it on the TVR probably just skipped the first half. In a lot of
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  ways. Trevan Henderson obviously had a big game with with on the on the
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  ground and also as a pass catcher. You sit there and you just you
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  can't say enough about what he means to this team. As a healthy running
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  back, he looks a lot more like the freshman running back that he was.
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  You know, this team still, I mean, we're in November.
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  November is for championship football. You just need to win these games. I'm
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  sure they're gonna be a lot of people who are gonna pan the Buckeye's performance
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  when it comes to the new College FOOTBA playoff rankings that'll come out on Tuesday.
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  But just win at this point because the number that really matters right now
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  is that zero in the lost column. Yeah, if they if they went
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  out, they're gonna be in the playoffs. That's you know. At this
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  point, the only concern would be, hey, if they lose one,
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  they drop one between now and the final selection, show what happens. Then
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  if they went out, it all resolves itself. And you know, we
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  as we're recording this, there are still other highly ranked teams playing and not
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  you know, not looking like oh, you know, not not putting on
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  particularly dominant pformances. Georgia F s U and these and these and these outcomes
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  could change wildly by the time you see this show, but at the time
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  we were recording, yeah, super unimpressed. Well, and you know,
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  it changed quite a bit for Ohio State. So Ohio State is not the
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  only team that has looked iffy against you know, okay, but not great
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  competition. This is not the Rutgers team that was the Ruckers team when Chris
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  ash was here. This is a six and three now Rutgers team that has
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  some talent and has is well coached. They they do things that stress you
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  a little bit. They they had, I mean, they had that really
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  creative what fourth and one like a fumble fumble Rusky double hike type of situation.
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  It was. It was nuts and you know, it's the type of
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  play that when you when you hit on it, you're a genius and when
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  you you miss on it, you're incompetent. Yeah. Well, they they
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  hit on it and that ended up being leading you one of three first half
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  field goals for the for the Scarlet. It was. It was a really
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  impressive performance from Rutgers. And you know, you grade Ruckers on I think
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  obviously a very different curve near grading Ohio State on but Ohio State looked,
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  you know, I mean, people have been complaining about com McCord's performance,
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  and Tom McCord had one mistake, one substantial mistake, that interception. In
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  the first half. He was also pretty much dead on. He was not
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  bombing the ball downfield, but that's not what Rutgers was going to let him
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  have, so he took what Rutgers really was giving him. They moved the
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  ball relatively effectively in the first half. To me, McCord is cal McCord
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  is not twenty twenty two c J. Stroud. But Kyle McCord is doing
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  fine right now. I think in the first half he was twelve of sixteen,
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  there was an interception, there were two drops, and there was an
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  underthrow. Starts off eleven of eleven. Not a lot of yardage there,
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  a lot of dings and dunks. Kind of a case of what you saw
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  when Ohio State winning against Northwestern, especially the first time around in the Big
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  Ten championship game, with Mike Hankowitz as the as the DC, everything is
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  underneath, We're going to force you to beat us under and with running the
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  ball, and I think it. I think Ohio State wasn't as committed to
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  running the ball in the first half as it needed to be, and then
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  in the second half, as Tom said earlier in the show, Oh,
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  we have Travian Henderson and you don't, so we should probably utilize them.
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  And they did, and there was much rejoicing on the visitors sideline. Yeah.
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  Trevian Henderson finished as the leading rusher and the leading receiver for Ohio State
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  twenty two carries, one hundred and twenty eight yards and a touchdown on the
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  ground, five point eight yards per carry, without a huge play to skew
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  that number. Through the air five catches on five targets eighty yards. He
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  did have a sixty five yard or through the air. He was he was
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  a difference maker. This is the second time in two weeks since he's been
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  back he's put up a two hundred yard total yard performance for them. If
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  he just looks so different, you know, you saw these flashes in twenty
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  twenty one. I was like, oh, man, I can't you know,
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  I can't wait to see what this kid looks like in a couple of
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  years. And then he was hurt a bunch last year. He's been hurt
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  a bunch this year. And then he's finally back, he's finally healthy,
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  and you kind of go, oh, oh, yeah, I remember this
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  guy going into the home stretch of this season. He could be a really
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  crucial piece of this offense. Rutgers had not given up a forty yard plus
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  play on the season, and now that can cross that one off the list.
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  So you know, there you go with that. He is going to
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  be pivotal and I think that it's going to be very important for Ohio State
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  to be able to utilize Trevion Henderson for whatever type of championship run may be
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  in the cards for this team. I mean, obviously, coming into this
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  week, in particular, the passing offense was much further ahead than the rushing
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  offense. We're starting to see a little bit more with the rushing offense,
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  Trevion Henderson not going down on first contact, not running to contact, all
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  the things that we've heard people say about him, you know, since his
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  freshman season, he has definitely been able to find some of that form and
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  with no mind Williams moving forward, chip train him is a change of pace
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  back for them and seemingly trying to go forward without Dallan Hayden, at least
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  in terms of burning that red shirt, you need to have trevi Anne Henderson
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  good to go and get more than just a handful of carries out of him.
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  They only got a handful of receptions out of Marvin Harrison Junior. Four
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  catches twenty five yards. That feels like, how could they possibly win if
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  they did that? Well? Now practice well, two of them were in
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  the end zone, so that helps a lot. That turned what was a
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  nine to seven half time deficit into that thirty five to sixteen final score.
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  But you know, too, he does still feel like you probably should be
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  thrown the ball more to Marvin Harrison because Marvin Harrison does Marvin Harrison things.
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  He had eight targets, four catches. Rutgers was defending them in a way
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  where it was like, we are not gonna let you pop it deep.
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  They you know, they they we sort of anticipated that's what they were gonna
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  do because that's kind of what they do. They're gonna make you be.
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  Even thoughtical good on the field, it does feel like eight targets for Marvin
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  Harrison is not enough because they've had fifteen sixteen targets for him in recent weeks
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  and he'll, you know, and then he has ten eleven catches and one
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  hundred and twenty yards and a touchdown or two. It feels like they've got
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  to do more because they didn't. They got limited snaps out of a Mecca
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  Ubuka, they got no snaps at of Cad Stover. It feels like you
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  gotta take advantage of Marvin Harrison. However, you're gonna do it well,
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  especially in that first half. And obviously we'd mentioned earlier that there were only
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  four incompletions. The interception was supposed to be going to Marvin Harrison Junior.
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  The underthrow was to Marvin Harrison Junior. So that's that's two of the uh
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  the targets that did not land in in receptions. But if you're not going
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  to be running the ball, you need to be throwing it to Marvin Harrison
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  Junior. There's not a limit. It's not a case of well, you
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  you can only use the nitrous oxide ten times in this game. You have
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  you can sit there and use your cheat code as many times as you'd like.
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  He's talking about street racing. He's not talking about illegal use of Nigel.
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  I'm talking about whippets or anything like that. Nothing. No, So
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  the defense I picked them to give up six points and they gave up sixteen
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  and Rutgers was in the red zone a bunch. The good news is the
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  defense got off the field, But part of the conversation about the defense has
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  to be so a bunch of these guys are hurt. There was no Denzel
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  Berg, no Lathan Ransom, Josh Procter left in the middle of the game.
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  At one point, true freshman Malik Hartford was out there with Redchert freshman
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  Stokes. It's the safety spots. I mean, they were just kind of
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  like mixing and matching. True freshman German Matthews were out there a bunch like
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  they were just kind of like mixing and matching in the secondary and just kind
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  of going like, Hey, I don't know, he's got to figure it
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  out. Well, And that's what you gotta do. And you gotta hope
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  that these guys are able to be back by the Michigan game, and we
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  don't. Necessarily they're not very forthcoming with injury reports. They were particularly cloudy
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  coming out of this game during the press conference, So we're gonna have to
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  kind of wait and see. But next man up, I mean, obviously
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  we've seen things out of Jermaine Matthews. Well, Malike Cartford. We saw
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  the beginning of that experiment early in the season. They decided to go back
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  to the lab a little bit. Now, he's got to be ready,
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  and if you're Kay Stokes, you need to be ready. John Carter,
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  he did dress, he traveled, he dressed. I mean, he's somebody
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  who could get thrown into the mix. But there are a lot of things
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  that are gonna have to happen there in. Ohio State is gonna have to
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  be ready because games are not gonna get any less physical. And we may
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  look past Michigan State, and we may look past Minnesota a little bit,
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  but you know, I think everybody was prepared to look past Rutgers as well.
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  And Ohio State was trailing in the at halftime. Yeah, this was
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  This was a very different at Rutgers experience than Ohio State had had in previous
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  years. It was a legitimate four quarter game, which are just you're not
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  used to seeing at Rutgers. But Buck guys do make it through unbeaten.
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  They win the game, they continue to be unbeaten. They're through the first
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  game in November, you got two more and then you got Michigan and boy
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  won't that be won't that be a spectacle? Oh boy, howdy, oh
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  boy, howdy? Yeah it is, you know, and and you know,
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  to your point about not overlooking teams, I think Nebraska came into Saturday
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  thinking, well, Michigan State's a tire fire. They're you know, their
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  teams completely falling apart. Nebraska was, I think, on the verge of
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  Bowl eligibility, and all they had to do is beat lowli Michigan State.
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  Final score Michigan State twenty, Nebraska seventeen. It's you can't take there are
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  I think there's very clearly a tier of the top of the Big ten that
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  might be two maybe three teams, and then there's a big gap. But
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  it's not a gap down to Chris ash Rutgers. It's there's there's you have
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  to you have to come and come and play every week. And the buck
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  Eyes will definitely be coming in playing next week against Michigan State at home.
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  That will be a prime time kickoff, I believe it NBC game correct,
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  Yes, primetime on NBC next weekend, Real NBC, not Peacock. So
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  we can look forward to a twelve fifteen AM or so postgame show next week.
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  Can't wait. But today the Buckeyes take care of Rutgers thirty five to
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  sixteen. Continue unbeaten into the month of November, and we'll be tracking the
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