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4 Takeaways From Ohio State's Win Over Rutgers · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Sunday, November twenty third.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, tom Or the game against Michigan in
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  Speaker 2: J I by Kevin Newton, Fuck a Huddle dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Kevin, We're going to talk about the Ohio State Rutgers
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  Speaker 1: game for about three minutes and twenty seconds and then
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  Speaker 1: we're going to move on.
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  Speaker 2: So we are on the clock. Here we go.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State forty two, Rutgers nine. That was weird.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, especially when you look at a game
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  Speaker 3: that was fourteen to three at halftime. Ohio State just
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  Speaker 3: kind of seemed to be like playing with its food
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  Speaker 3: and then goes and puts up twenty eight points in
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  Speaker 3: the in the second half. And you know, I'm not
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  Speaker 3: trying to short us on our three minutes and twenty seconds,
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  Speaker 3: But you don't have Jeremiah Smith, you don't have Cardell Tait,
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  Speaker 3: you don't have Milon Graham for part of the game.
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  Speaker 3: You don't have Quincy Porter, you're going to run into
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  Speaker 3: some issues. But in Ohio State fought on to win
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  Speaker 3: the game and set up, you know, set up a
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  Speaker 3: big game next week. Sitting at eleven or zero with
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  Speaker 3: everything on the tape.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they they did what they needed to do.
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  Speaker 1: This is really a classic the week before the Michigan
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  Speaker 1: game week where as soon as the game gets to
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  Speaker 1: a point where it's sort of settled.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone goes and now it's Michigan Week.
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  Speaker 1: I think Tony Gerderman and I tweeted about fifteen seconds apart,
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  Speaker 1: it's officially in Michigan week. When Ohio State went up
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  Speaker 1: twenty eight to three. The game before the game is
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  Speaker 1: always just kind of okay, check the box, move on.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State did have to do it in a little
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  Speaker 1: bit of a difficult way where they, as you said,
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  Speaker 1: there was at one point where they were missing five
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  Speaker 1: of their top six wide receivers because Jeremiah Smith, Milon
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith and Carnel Tate and Quincy Porter were all
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  Speaker 1: out for the game. Brandon Innis went out for a
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  Speaker 1: little while with an injury. Mileon Graham was not playing
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  Speaker 1: due to what Ryan day later said was kind of
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  Speaker 1: inconsistency in practice. It sounds like or just sort of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, inconsistency in general. They had to do this
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  Speaker 1: really on the ground, which Rutgers run defense is not good.
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  Speaker 2: We'll just you know, sort of sticky like that.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, you look at how they how ohios
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  Speaker 1: dig did it.
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  Speaker 2: They were fine.
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  Speaker 1: It was just kind of Okay, you can't win the
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  Speaker 1: way you would normally want to win. Okay, you made
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  Speaker 1: a couple of plays on defense, you ran the ball,
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  Speaker 1: you get in, you get out, bing bang boom.
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  Speaker 2: It's like going to Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 3: Well and you look early in the game and bo
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  Speaker 3: Jackson fumbles the at the one yard line. It's just like,
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  Speaker 3: oh boy, here we go. And you know, I certainly remember,
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  Speaker 3: wasn't that Maryland game that went to like overtime multiple overtimes?
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  Speaker 2: Tho?
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  Speaker 3: Wasn't that the week before the.
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  Speaker 2: Michigan gamey eighteen? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: And I mean there were years where the schedule maker
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  Speaker 3: didn't like Ohio State all that much and then played
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  Speaker 3: Penn State and then Michigan and in back to back weeks.
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  Speaker 2: To fidenty nineteen. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, so you just have to you know,
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  Speaker 3: take care of what you can take care of. But
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  Speaker 3: rushing for thirty eight runs for two fifty four or
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  Speaker 3: four touchdowns for you know, we all heard the we've
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  Speaker 3: all heard the whispers and it not been from a
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  Speaker 3: lot of people.
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  Speaker 2: This team can run the ball.
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  Speaker 3: And there were times where where this very bad Rutgers
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  Speaker 3: run defense guess the right play. I mean not to
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  Speaker 3: take anything from you guys postgame show, but it was
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  Speaker 3: very techmo like they get you, you got four plays
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  Speaker 3: and if you guess the right one, you're going to
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  Speaker 3: blow it up. And they and they did. But there
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  Speaker 3: were other times that where Ohio State was able to
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  Speaker 3: get some of those missing explosives and you know, take
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  Speaker 3: care of things because everybody's like Julian saying this, Julian
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  Speaker 3: saying that went for Buck fifty seven thirteen to nineteen
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  Speaker 3: two touchdowns.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, not a bad game.
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  Speaker 3: Sixty eight percent, which is, you know, well below his
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  Speaker 3: usual mark. But when you take the number of receivers
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  Speaker 3: off the board likes as we've talked about, I mean
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  Speaker 3: sixty eight percent with with you know, I don't want,
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  Speaker 3: I don't even want to single anybody out because that's
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  Speaker 3: not fair, but you know, they just you know they
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  Speaker 3: did not have their usual crew.
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  Speaker 2: No, they did not have their usual crew.
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  Speaker 1: So thus end if the Rutgers talk. So now it
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  Speaker 1: is on to Michigan. This is the week that ever win.
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  Speaker 1: In the building. There's a countdown clock in the building
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  Speaker 1: to one game in one game only and that game
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  Speaker 1: is the Michigan game.
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  Speaker 2: So you know this is yeah, they want to.
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  Speaker 1: Take it one game at a time, but also they
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  Speaker 1: also kind of have one one eye on the Michigan
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  Speaker 1: game all a year long. So this now, now you
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  Speaker 1: can turn the page and now it is Michigan week,
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  Speaker 1: and the real question is Okay, Carnell Tait, Jeremiah Smith
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  Speaker 1: once again did not play this week.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone's going to want to.
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  Speaker 1: Know the answer to this, and we can't possibly know
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  Speaker 1: the answer to this right yet, but my expectation would be,
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  Speaker 1: you know, over under one or one and a half
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  Speaker 1: of those guys play next week. You know, I think
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  Speaker 1: that's I think that's where the line is. It's not
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  Speaker 1: zero point five. I think I think it's it's one
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  Speaker 1: and a half of them play.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: I don't.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not even gonna put you on the spot here,
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  Speaker 1: but it feels like it feels like that's gonna be
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  Speaker 1: the story of the week this week.
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  Speaker 2: And to be frank, like.
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  Speaker 1: The conversation around those guys changed from the time we
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  Speaker 1: walked out of here last Saturday until you know, even
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  Speaker 1: Tuesday Wednesday felt like the conversation around those guys changed
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  Speaker 1: a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Well in Ohio State didn't drag on the on the
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  Speaker 3: availability report, and I think everybody kind of knew they were
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  Speaker 3: going to be out, and they were out. But you know,
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  Speaker 3: you go from well, I think two weeks ago Carnell tape,
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  Speaker 3: you know, dresses for the game, and it's like, well,
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  Speaker 3: you know, I think he you know, he could have
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  Speaker 3: gone break open and break open the last case of emergency.
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  Speaker 3: And now he's not been in uniform the last couple
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  Speaker 3: of weeks, So I mean, there's obviously concern there. People
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  Speaker 3: pointed out that Jeremiah Smith being seen celebrated with teammates
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  Speaker 3: on the sideline on the television copy still limping around
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  Speaker 3: or whatever. But again, you know, he's he didn't get
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  Speaker 3: warmed up, he didn't go through any of that stuff.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I mean, granted, he's not fifty four years
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  Speaker 3: old like me, limping around just to get up to
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  Speaker 3: walk to the you know, the refrigerator or whatever. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: one point five creates an interesting dynamic right there. You know,
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  Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't I don't know. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: going to go on record, especially not here on late
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  Speaker 3: late Saturday nights, earlyast Sunday morning, whenever you may partake
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  Speaker 3: of this this podcast. I'm not ready to go on there,
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  Speaker 3: just like I'm not ready to give a score.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that that's a you know, we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: I would be a little surprised if neither of them
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  Speaker 1: played next week.
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  Speaker 2: I will I will go on the record with that.
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  Speaker 2: We'll see.
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  Speaker 1: I've been surprised before, but that would be a little
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  Speaker 1: bit surprising to me. The you know, Michigan right now,
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  Speaker 1: as at the time we're recording this is still playing,
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  Speaker 1: so they're they're up twenty one to ten at halftime
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  Speaker 1: against Maryland.
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  Speaker 2: So the expectation would be that.
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  Speaker 1: This is a Michigan team that you figure they're finished
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  Speaker 1: the drill. They're going to come in they're going to
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  Speaker 1: be nine and two coming into this game, and at
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  Speaker 1: that point they've got it all on the thing, They've
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  Speaker 1: got everything on the table. They have beat Ohio State,
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  Speaker 1: they have potentially go to the Big Ten championship game,
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  Speaker 1: depending on tiebreaker stuff. At that point, they have potentially
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  Speaker 1: earned a spot in the College Football Playoff, if you know,
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  Speaker 1: because they were what eighteenth I think last week something
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  Speaker 1: like that, and you're gonna move on to beat the
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  Speaker 1: number one, You're gonna you're gonna move up a good
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  Speaker 1: amount because all was on boom.
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  Speaker 2: You've got the best win in the country.
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  Speaker 1: So they have a lot on the line next week.
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  Speaker 1: Someone asked us on the postgame show, and I thought
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  Speaker 1: this was a fascinating conversation, and Tony and I kind
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  Speaker 1: of talked it through and didn't really land on an answer.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm gonna ask you who has more pressure on
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  Speaker 1: them next week? Ohio State obviously has the streak going
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  Speaker 1: against them, but Ohio State's making the playoff no matter what. Michigan, Boy,
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  Speaker 1: there's a whole lot on the line from Michigan. So
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  Speaker 1: who has more pressure on them next year?
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  Speaker 2: Next week?
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  Speaker 3: I'm gonna say Ohio State, but I don't. I'm not
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  Speaker 3: gonna say that. It's a huge amount of you know,
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  Speaker 3: the number is that different? Because you're right, Michigan has
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  Speaker 3: to kind of hit the inside straight. They have to
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  Speaker 3: beat Ohio State, they have to go to the Big
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  Speaker 3: Ten championship game. Obviously, winning the Big Ten Championship game
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  Speaker 3: would would cement their position right there. You know, you're
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  Speaker 3: not really relying on a lot of help at that point.
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  Speaker 3: Ohio State certainly has the streak against it. Ohio State
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  Speaker 3: certainly would like to be the number one seed. That
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  Speaker 3: would be fantastic, But Ohio State has a little bit
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  Speaker 3: of house money.
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  Speaker 2: In terms of its playoff life.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe there's not as much house money when it comes
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  Speaker 3: to why haven't you won the Big Ten in all
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  Speaker 3: these years? Why haven't you beaten Michigan in all these years?
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  Speaker 3: All of that, All of that is very real. So
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  Speaker 3: I think that I think that pressure alone is going
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  Speaker 3: to outweigh the other pressure because I think that Ohio
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  Speaker 3: State being defending national champions everything else. Ohio State knows
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  Speaker 3: what's there. I don't know if Michigan knows exactly.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in danger.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, like the old Ralph Wigham meme.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll see.
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  Speaker 1: The Buckeyes have their three stated team goals, and they
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  Speaker 1: are all ahead of them right now. Number one beat Michigan,
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  Speaker 1: Number two win the Big Ten, Number three win the
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  Speaker 1: National Championship. They could in the span of five football
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  Speaker 1: games accomplish all of them.
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  Speaker 2: They could next week blow the first two of them.
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  Speaker 2: You've seen that happen as well.
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