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Tale of the Tape: Ohio State vs. Marshall Preview · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, September twenty first
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  Speaker 1: time your host, Tom Moore. The Marshall Game is today.
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  Speaker 1: The game again to Michigan in seventy days. Yes, just
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  Speaker 1: ten weeks away from the game. But that's not what
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  Speaker 1: we're here to talk about today. We're here to talk
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  Speaker 1: about the Marshall Game. One game to time. People, Let's
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  Speaker 1: not rush anything. Buck Guys and Thundering Heard kicking off
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  Speaker 1: at noon on Fox in the Horseshoe. The big noon
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  Speaker 1: kickoff pregame show going to be broadcasting from Ohio's dating
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  Speaker 1: before that, it's going to look suspiciously like a big game,
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  Speaker 1: even if it's not exactly a big game when you
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  Speaker 1: look at the point spread or level of enthusiasm around
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  Speaker 1: the state of Ohio or city of Columbus. Shall we say,
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  Speaker 1: but Buck Guys playing a team from a neighboring state,
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  Speaker 1: the Marshall Thundering Herd from just across the Ohio River
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  Speaker 1: and Huntington, West Virginia, joined by Kevin Noon of Buckeyheadle
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  Speaker 1: dot Com. He just wrote one of his signature Tale
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  Speaker 1: of the Tape pieces previewing the game, and Kevin for
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  Speaker 1: a team that plays its home games as close to
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  Speaker 1: Columbus as Marshall does. It's a little weird. These two
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  Speaker 1: teams have not played more than just twice before today.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and if you are a fan of the NC
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  Speaker 2: two A, they've played once because the twenty ten game
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  Speaker 2: was vacated. That was a forty five to seven Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State win. So you have to go back to twenty
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  Speaker 2: or two thousand and four, a twenty four to twenty
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  Speaker 2: one win for the Buckeyes. Mike Nugent had to kick
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  Speaker 2: a fifty five yarder inside of twenty seconds left in
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  Speaker 2: the game to get the dub. So no, not a
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  Speaker 2: lot of history between these two teams. I didn't even
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  Speaker 2: really bother talking about the forty five to seven game.
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  Speaker 2: Usually I'm like, well, I'm not the NC two A,
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to include everything. I don't know what got
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  Speaker 2: into me. I'm just like, well, we're just going to
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  Speaker 2: ignore the game that didn't happen, because I wanted to
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  Speaker 2: just get to the point of talking about Marshall and
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  Speaker 2: what they are here in this twenty twenty four iteration
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  Speaker 2: and then onto conference play, where Taylor of the tape
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  Speaker 2: actually starts to mean a little bit more because there
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  Speaker 2: are teams we know their players, we know you play them.
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  Speaker 2: You don't play them yearly or every other year. I
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  Speaker 2: mean you're playing them once every couple of years, and
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  Speaker 2: there's a lot more familiarity as opposed to Marshall, where
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  Speaker 2: I had to I had to look at online several
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  Speaker 2: times to remember what conference they played in because they've
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  Speaker 2: been in the Back, They've been in Conference USA. Now
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  Speaker 2: they're in the Sunbolt, so you know the conference realignments,
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  Speaker 2: not just for the biggest of leaks.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it wasn't that long ago when I was in
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  Speaker 1: college and probably when you were in college, that the
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  Speaker 1: Marshall Thundering Herd were a one double A team. It
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  Speaker 1: was one double A back then, but they had several
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  Speaker 1: one double A national championship games in a row against
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  Speaker 1: Jim Tressel and the Youngstown State Penguins back in the
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  Speaker 1: early to mid nineties. So yeah, it is. They have
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  Speaker 1: not been a Division one A slash FBS team for
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  Speaker 1: all that long. Randy Moss is one of the earliest
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  Speaker 1: FBS stars, of course for the Marshall Thundering Herd. No
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  Speaker 1: Randy Moss, Randy Moss, Kevin not looking through that door
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  Speaker 1: So when you do your in depth preview, when you
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  Speaker 1: go position by position and sort of looking at the
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  Speaker 1: matchups all around the field, what is the area where
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  Speaker 1: Marshall maybe feels the best coming in today. Where is
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  Speaker 1: the area they stack up the best or did maybe
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  Speaker 1: stack up the least worst in a game where they're
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  Speaker 1: probably going to be a substantial underdog pretty much everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're going to be an underdog pretty much everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: We'll start on the offensive side of the ball. We
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  Speaker 2: all have talked about how Marshall is going to throw
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  Speaker 2: and throw and throw and throw, but the reality is
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  Speaker 2: their biggest home run hitter is in the running game
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  Speaker 2: with aj Turner, who has an eighty yard touchdown and
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  Speaker 2: a sixty nine yard touchdown on the ground. So somebody
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  Speaker 2: that you cannot take lightly, you got to get him
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  Speaker 2: down to the ground as quickly as possible. You look
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  Speaker 2: at their quarterback situation, they've played three guys. But when
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  Speaker 2: you're looking at the stats of Marshall, you have to
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  Speaker 2: remember they played a legitimate opponent in Virginia Tech, and
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  Speaker 2: then a lesser less or lesser lesser opponent in Stony
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  Speaker 2: Brook Stone Earl. Is there is really their main guy,
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  Speaker 2: and he's only a forty four completion type of guy.
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  Speaker 2: Three touchdowns. The name that I think everybody is going
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  Speaker 2: to gravitate toward is Cole Pennington. Yes, another Pennington. That
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  Speaker 2: name should be familiar. Not Chad Pennington walking through the door,
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  Speaker 2: but but Cole. So you have a couple of, you know,
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  Speaker 2: other quarterbacks that are much more efficient. But where did
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  Speaker 2: they you know, where did they make their mark? Was
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  Speaker 2: it in the Stony Brook game? Was it did they
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  Speaker 2: get fat in a game that that Marshall won going away?
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  Speaker 2: Probably there? And then in the receiving game, they spread
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  Speaker 2: the ball around, but they're they're big go to is
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  Speaker 2: Christian Fitzpatrick. One hundred and seventy yards, so he's averaging
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  Speaker 2: twenty one point three yards per per reception, two touchdowns,
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  Speaker 2: a sixty seven yard touchdown as his longest. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: that's kind of where they stand there. Then we flip
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  Speaker 2: over to the defensive side, and something I will say
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  Speaker 2: is that Marshall does a pretty good job of and
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  Speaker 2: after the quarterback, you're gonna have to keep an eye
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  Speaker 2: on Mike Green. Number fifteen for you with the program
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  Speaker 2: in front of you, three and a half sacks, already
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  Speaker 2: on the year. That's three and a half of Marshall's
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  Speaker 2: eight sacks. But I think Marshall is going to really
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  Speaker 2: be tested in terms of its defense on all fronts
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  Speaker 2: because they've not gone against an offense anywhere close to
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State's. Apologies to Stony Brook and Virginia Tech.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Mike Green actually leads the NCAA one point seventy
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  Speaker 1: five sacks per game three and a half over two games.
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  Speaker 1: I tried to get Tony Gerdaman to agree that Marshall
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  Speaker 1: will have zero sacks was a bold prediction. He did
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  Speaker 1: not feel that was particularly bold. So perhaps a lack
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  Speaker 1: of respect for the Marshall defensive line and Mike Green
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  Speaker 1: out of Tony Gerdaman. If he gets a sack, make
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  Speaker 1: sure you let him know at Tony Gerdaman on Twitter,
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  Speaker 1: make sure you let him know, Tony Kevin. This feels
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  Speaker 1: like the last one was sort of a degrees of
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  Speaker 1: not terrible for Marshall. This one might be a degrees
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  Speaker 1: of extremely good for Ohio State. Where do the Buckeyes
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  Speaker 1: feel like they may have the best, the biggest advantage
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  Speaker 1: coming into this game everywhere?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I mean again, this is just a case
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  Speaker 2: of it's not taking Marshall lightly, it's just looking at
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  Speaker 2: the rosters compared to one another. I mean, okay, is
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  Speaker 2: Marshall going to be able to stop the Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: passing game?
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  Speaker 1: No?
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  Speaker 2: Is Marshall going to be able to stop the Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State running game? No. On the other side, is Ohio State,
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  Speaker 2: you know, going to be pressed by Marshall's passing game?
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  Speaker 2: Probably not. Is Ohio State really going to be pressed
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  Speaker 2: by Marshall's running game? Probably not. And even special teams.
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  Speaker 2: I mean there's a lot of times Ohio State through
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  Speaker 2: it's going through the wilderness of special teams with the
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  Speaker 2: special teams coordinator for the previous years and not having one. Now,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there are always been questions of Ohio States
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  Speaker 2: special teams. Are they maximizing what they've got there? Well,
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  Speaker 2: Marshalls are not great, and so I don't see an
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  Speaker 2: opportunity for Marshall to really put a lot of pressure
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  Speaker 2: on Ohio. Now, if Ohio State cooperates with Marshall, turns
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  Speaker 2: the ball over. Ohio State has no turnovers this year,
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  Speaker 2: But if it turns the ball over, then you just
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  Speaker 2: don't know what's going to happen. But it's it's going
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  Speaker 2: to be more than needing just to be plus four
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  Speaker 2: for Marshall in the turnover margin to be able to
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  Speaker 2: be in this game to the fourth quarter. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's going to take an absolute implosion and malaise coming
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  Speaker 2: out of the open week and maybe the Goodyear blimp,
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  Speaker 2: you know, crashing into se deck.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe some kind of moderate to moderatis severe carbon monoxide leak. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that it feels like you're it feels like you're looking
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  Speaker 1: like that in terms of keys to the game for
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  Speaker 1: a Marshall win. Marshall's field goal kicker one of three
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  Speaker 1: on the year.
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  Speaker 2: Not great.
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  Speaker 1: Net punting one hundred and twenty ninth in the country
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  Speaker 1: also not great. So looking at this game, what is
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  Speaker 1: the most interesting thing? I mean, it feels like this
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  Speaker 1: is one where o'hist it's a forty point favorite and
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  Speaker 1: you kind of go, yeah, that feels about right. So
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  Speaker 1: what is the most interesting facet of this game to you?
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  Speaker 1: What's the thing you're watching for? Is there a player
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  Speaker 1: you're watching for, whether it's a guy who's going to
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  Speaker 1: be the breakout star for Ohio State or just someone
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  Speaker 1: you're looking to see in terms of a younger guy
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  Speaker 1: what what's the most interesting thing to watch for during
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  Speaker 1: this game.
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  Speaker 2: I'm really interested in seeing what is going to happen
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  Speaker 2: if Marshall does come out just in throwing and throwing
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  Speaker 2: and throwing and throwing, and if they can come out
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  Speaker 2: and roll out four receivers or something, and if you
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  Speaker 2: get to get Ohio State and positions of where you're
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  Speaker 2: having safeties out there covering. We know that Bia is
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  Speaker 2: Bia and that they have been just fantastic the last
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  Speaker 2: couple of games. But can can Marshall do you know
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  Speaker 2: stress Ohio State? There can can Stone Earl and his
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  Speaker 2: forty four point two percent passing percentage? Can they find
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  Speaker 2: can they find some little gaps in the Ohio State defense?
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  Speaker 2: Can is Ohio State reading its own press clippings and thinking, well,
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  Speaker 2: this game isn't going to be meaningful. We don't have
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  Speaker 2: a meaningful game until Oregon or whatnot. And then on
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  Speaker 2: the other side, I'm I'm just really interested to watch
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  Speaker 2: how Ohio State handles its running back touches. Quin Shawn
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  Speaker 2: Judkins has a couple more than Trevion Henderson, who has
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  Speaker 2: a couple more than James People's, but they've done a
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  Speaker 2: really good job of kind of keeping it all balanced.
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  Speaker 2: Are we going to see a point where they're going
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  Speaker 2: to write a hot hand at some point and that
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  Speaker 2: they're just going to keep doing that, or are they
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  Speaker 2: going to carls Laughlin, Chip Kelly, Ryan Day, Are they
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  Speaker 2: going to say, no, we like where we have it now.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have the numbers in front of me. I
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  Speaker 2: think Quinchawn has twenty four touches. I think Trevion has
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  Speaker 2: twenty and James Peoples as eighteen. It's something that's what
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  Speaker 2: kind of the splits are will will they write a
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  Speaker 2: hot hand? And you know, I don't know if it's
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  Speaker 2: necessarily going to be all that important in a game
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  Speaker 2: where Ohio State, last I checked, was a thirty nine
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  Speaker 2: point five point favorite.
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  Speaker 1: All right, so then thirty nine point five point favorite.
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  Speaker 1: What are you looking at in terms of a final score?
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  Speaker 1: What was your score prediction?
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  Speaker 2: I apologize if it's different than what comes out you
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  Speaker 2: know here on Friday, because I don't remember I wrote
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  Speaker 2: my prediction on Tuesday. But I think Ohio State is
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  Speaker 2: going to continue to push very hard and it's just
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  Speaker 2: going to keep scoring. We're not necessarily seeing Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: taking his foot completely off the gas at the start
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  Speaker 2: of the fourth quarter. They're trying to get guys like
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  Speaker 2: Devin Brown and Julian Saying, trying to get them some
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  Speaker 2: reps running the actual offense. So I like Ohio State
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  Speaker 2: to win this one, covering barely. I'm saying forty nine
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  Speaker 2: to seven.
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  Speaker 1: All right, I had forty eight three, So I think
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  Speaker 1: we were very much in the same neighborhood there. We've
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  Speaker 1: all been kind of in the same general ballpark on
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  Speaker 1: most of these games, and I think been generally in
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  Speaker 1: the ballpark of the actual final score as well. So
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  Speaker 1: this gets a little more difficult a week from now
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  Speaker 1: when the buck Gys opened Big Ten play against Michigan State,
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  Speaker 1: and then of course Iowa the week after that, and
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  Speaker 1: then at Oregon the week after that. To get a
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