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2025 Rose Bowl Preview Ohio State vs. Oregon · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: Welcome to buck guys tomorrow morning for Wednesday, January first.
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Speaker 1: I'm the host, tom Or. The Rose Bowl game against
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Speaker 1: the Oregon is today. The game against Michigan in three
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Speaker 1: hundred and thirty two days. We are here at the
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Speaker 1: Rose Bowl media headquarters right now Tom More joined by hundred.
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Speaker 2: Gourda minute buckehable dot Com.
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Speaker 1: You can see behind us they are breaking down the
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Speaker 1: set for the Dan Lanning Ryan Day joint press conference
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Speaker 1: that with the last official.
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Speaker 2: Event before the Rose Bowl starts.
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Speaker 1: And Tony Boy, what was your big takeaway from thirty
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Speaker 1: minutes with the head coaches of the Organ Ducks and
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Speaker 1: the Ohio State buck Eyes.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think one of the great takeaways is that
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Speaker 3: Dan Lanning sometimes tries to use words that don't lead anywhere,
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Speaker 3: like say, they say things without saying anything. Brian Day
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Speaker 3: will over the years, he'll give you more and more answers,
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Speaker 3: but again, what is he really talking about in this
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Speaker 3: kind of matchup? So I think some of the questions
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Speaker 3: about the future of college football those we're not going
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Speaker 3: to go anywhere today because the future of college football
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Speaker 3: is the present that is today right now. The most
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Speaker 3: important thing for everybody. I mean there are some topics
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Speaker 3: that they will have to explore down the road about
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Speaker 3: the future of the sport. But overall, Tom, I think
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Speaker 3: in this one, the lesson that I chuck is a
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Speaker 3: team that blocks the best, tackles the best, and really
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Speaker 3: adapts the best to first quarter or second quarter, on
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Speaker 3: and on will be the team that ends up Victoria's
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Speaker 3: based on what.
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Speaker 1: I've heard so far, Yeah, that was definitely something that
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Speaker 1: both coaches said. Both coaches agreed on a lot of
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Speaker 1: stuff in terms of the big picture stuff. They didn't
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Speaker 1: want to answer stuff you know who, who's an unsudden
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Speaker 1: hero in your life who helps helps get you there?
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Speaker 2: Both of them it was their wives, which as soon
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Speaker 2: as the.
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Speaker 1: First person said their wife, I was like, oh boy,
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Speaker 1: I hope the second guy says his wife goes oh
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Speaker 1: so yeah, So both guys both coaches excellent game managers
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Speaker 1: with In terms of that one.
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Speaker 3: Well, I would say Dan Lanning I answered first, and
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Speaker 3: he said, you know, my wife's Sophia. And then Ryan
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Speaker 3: Day his first response is like the same, and I
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Speaker 3: wanted to be.
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Speaker 2: Like, say more, say more, right, and he did.
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Speaker 1: He did talk about you know, he and Nina have
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Speaker 1: known each other since they were six years old. There's
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Speaker 1: a picture of them floating around somewhere with They're both
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Speaker 1: on the same t Bowl team, so they have really
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Speaker 1: genuinely known each other pretty much their whole lives. So
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Speaker 1: so yeah, so okay, so we got we got the
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Speaker 1: thank you know, thanking the Academy, we got thanking, the
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Speaker 1: thanking the spouse who got you?
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Speaker 3: There's to be nominated and play at the Rose Ball
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Speaker 3: or the granddaddy of them all.
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Speaker 4: I did appreciate Ryan to admitting.
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Speaker 3: That before the game at the Rose Ball, it's sensory overloading.
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Speaker 2: It is.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, he talked about the grass is just greener
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Speaker 1: there than it been anywhere else.
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Speaker 2: The sky is bluer, the sun is yellower. It just
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Speaker 2: and you know, you think.
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Speaker 1: About growing up watching the Rose Bowl. It is always
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Speaker 1: in Ohio thirty two degrees and lightly missing and a
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Speaker 1: little bit of wind and kind of overcast, maybe a
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Speaker 1: little fog, and then you turn on the Rose Bowl
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Speaker 1: and it's like Dorothy going into from Kansas into oz
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Speaker 1: and it's just like, whoa where.
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Speaker 2: Did all this color come from? You definitely do get
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Speaker 2: that sense of the Roseball out with thought. That was nice.
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Speaker 1: They were asked about you know, what moment are you
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Speaker 1: looking to experience? What moment are you really hoping to
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Speaker 1: really be able to soak in? And Dan Lenning took
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Speaker 1: that one first and said, well, hope in the Clockheads
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Speaker 1: zero we have more points than they do, which you know, okay,
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Speaker 1: probably could have guessed that. Didn't need to press Cowris
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Speaker 1: for that. You know, we were at the point of
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Speaker 1: this week where it feels like you've kind of every
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Speaker 1: time we get to this point this week, it's kind
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Speaker 1: of like what has not been asked yet already and
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Speaker 1: the answer is always like, as it turns out, everything's
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Speaker 1: already been.
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Speaker 3: Asked, Yeah, and stuff that you would like to ask
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Speaker 3: I guess you probably could have done it yesterday when
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Speaker 3: you're trying to ask you about the future like this is.
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Speaker 4: We try to sometimes treat.
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Speaker 3: This as a media day, July media day, when you
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Speaker 3: can ask all these wide orranging things and it's like, dude,
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Speaker 3: I got a game, Yeah, I gotta get We're like yesterday,
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Speaker 3: I wanted to ask Keenan Bailey about Max Claire the
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Speaker 3: tide end transfer is like, Tony, I appreciate it, but
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Speaker 3: I'm here, I'm focused on a rose ball. We could
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Speaker 3: talk in a month, like the fact that there are
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Speaker 3: people like I don't want to talk about anything else.
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Speaker 3: I'm only worried about this. I'm as focused on that this,
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Speaker 3: and that's what this was mostly today. Even when both
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Speaker 3: coaches were asked about the moment that you're looking forward
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Speaker 3: to it, just like can you stop and soak it in?
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Speaker 3: Dan Lanning's like, yeah, I mean during the game. No,
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Speaker 3: And that was essentially Ryan Day's thing as well, like
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Speaker 3: before the game, sure, it's cool, but once the game
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Speaker 3: is going on, like you know, like you're not looking
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Speaker 3: around a third quarter for you jump around or there's
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Speaker 3: no Rose Bowl jump around, so soak in and enjoy No.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, we'll see at the end of the third
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Speaker 1: quarter whether the Ohio State fans are singing hands sloopy
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Speaker 1: a little more enthusiastically or the organ fans singing shout
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Speaker 1: a little more enthusiastically.
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Speaker 4: Are they doing a joint like one after the other.
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Speaker 2: I can't imagine that they are, but I don't know.
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Speaker 1: Maybe who knows, it's whatever. Whatever the Rose Bowl tradition is,
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Speaker 1: I'm sure they will do that. So all right, So
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Speaker 1: the coaches didn't want to talk about the game a
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Speaker 1: whole lot, and.
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Speaker 2: Especially any specifics.
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Speaker 1: There's questions about how you're going to you know, change
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Speaker 1: what you did from the first game, and you know,
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Speaker 1: how do you adapt?
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Speaker 2: And it was kind of like, well, would you like
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Speaker 2: the game plan?
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Speaker 1: And that's sort of been like a running joke among
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Speaker 1: the coaching community. It feels like this this college football
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Speaker 1: playoff season. So no, well, yes, I'm sure everyone would
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Speaker 1: have loved the game plan.
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Speaker 2: No, they were not going to be particularly forthcoming with it.
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Speaker 1: So I guess, Tony, it's up to us to talk
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Speaker 1: intelligently and interestingly about the game. So here we are,
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Speaker 1: per usual, Buckle up, here we go. What is the
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Speaker 1: one thing I ask you this all the time? One stat?
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Speaker 1: Like if I tell you, hey, you can only tell
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Speaker 1: me one stat, right, you know I can tell you
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Speaker 1: one stat and that is the thing that you go, Okay,
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Speaker 1: here's if I see this stat, I will know that
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Speaker 1: Ohio State wins.
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Speaker 2: And if I see that stat, I will know that
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Speaker 2: or in the probably.
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Speaker 3: One how many times does Dylan Gabriel get tackled in
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Speaker 3: the backfield? And that's not necessarily sacks, that's just getting
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Speaker 3: him down and keeping him from creating because I don't
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Speaker 3: know that it's going to rush for a ton of yards.
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Speaker 3: It may I don't know, one hundred and fifty that's
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Speaker 3: a good number. But if they can just get to
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Speaker 3: Dylan Gabriel and create some chaos and some havoc and
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Speaker 3: then also bring him down because sometimes when you create
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Speaker 3: that havoc, it also works out for Oregon. So I
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Speaker 3: think that you know, if there are no thirty yard
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Speaker 3: pass plays, Ohio State has given up six this season,
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Speaker 3: four of them came against Oregon.
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Speaker 4: So what's the number there that they need to be under. Yeah, say, well,
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Speaker 4: no more than two. I wonder if those two go
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Speaker 4: for eighty.
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Speaker 2: Right, So there.
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Speaker 3: With these kinds of teams, like no one thing other
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Speaker 3: than like, if you hold organ Is sixty yards rushing,
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Speaker 3: that's going to be a huge thing. I do think
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Speaker 3: tom as a writing about this game this morning and
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Speaker 3: thinking about it, Ohio State defensively can have the same
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Speaker 3: exact game they did the first time, which was terrible, right,
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Speaker 3: and win.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they absolutely could.
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Speaker 1: And you know the defense had you know, gave up
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Speaker 1: some big plays, but they also had had a drive
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Speaker 1: that got started on the twenty five yard line, right,
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Speaker 1: So you don't turn the ball over there that was
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Speaker 1: the Derek Harmon's strip of Quinncheawn Judkins.
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Speaker 2: Take those points off the board, toada Ohio State wins,
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Speaker 2: take off the points that the three points that Oregon
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Speaker 2: got on the on side kick You're right.
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Speaker 4: I mean, and whatever points Ohio State may have scored
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Speaker 4: from that draft.
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Speaker 1: Correct, Yeah, so yeah, so it is definitely you know,
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Speaker 1: in a game with margins that close, it doesn't take
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Speaker 1: much to change the change the balance. Now, the challenge,
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Speaker 1: of course, is for both of these teams.
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Speaker 2: You've seen Ohio State not be able to beat Organ
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Speaker 2: once this year.
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Speaker 1: You've also seen Oregon it just barely beat Ohio State
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Speaker 1: in their home stadium with a lot of stuff not
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Speaker 1: going right for Ohio State.
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Speaker 2: And then know the Organ fans are going to say,
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Speaker 2: well what.
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Speaker 1: About the everyone has the you know, the five plays,
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Speaker 1: the whatabouts, and you know, well what about this? And
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Speaker 1: then it would have been a ten point Organ what
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Speaker 1: about this? And it would have been a seven point
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Speaker 1: Ohio State win? And you could kind of talk yourself
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Speaker 1: in circles about that all week long, and folks have
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Speaker 1: been doing that in our common section all week long.
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Speaker 2: But when you.
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Speaker 1: Look at a game like this, it feels like we're
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Speaker 1: probably headed for another close one in my mind, and
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Speaker 1: I still have not. I have been just procrastinating putting
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Speaker 1: in my game pick, because beyond yeah, I think this
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Speaker 1: is gonna be a close game, It's probably gonna be
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Speaker 1: a very well played, exciting game that ends very close,
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Speaker 1: very dramatically, potentially one of these great classic Rose Bowls.
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Speaker 1: I just can't quite put my finger on the score
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Speaker 1: for this one. It's just normally, normally to the point
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Speaker 1: in the week where I go, Okay, I got it,
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Speaker 1: this is it.
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Speaker 2: And sometimes I'm right, and sometimes I'm wrong. This is
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Speaker 2: not like I'm clairvoyant.
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Speaker 4: It's like, no, it's certainly not.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes Sometimes sometimes.
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Speaker 1: I get the scorer exactly right or off by point,
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Speaker 1: and sometimes I'm off three touchdowns and it happens.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes you just have a good sense of where the
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Speaker 3: score is going to be, because there are really only
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Speaker 3: so many scores that it could be against some tunes.
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Speaker 4: For this one, I.
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Speaker 3: Expect both teams to score, but I'm fascinated to find
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Speaker 3: out about Ohio States defense, like how much better is
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Speaker 3: it now than the one that gave up thirty two
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Speaker 3: points to Oregon?
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Speaker 4: And if it's a lot better.
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Speaker 3: Then you shouldn't they give up fewer than at least
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Speaker 3: a touchdown last?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 4: And if the yeah, if they do that, then how
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Speaker 4: does Ohio State not score twenty seven?
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Speaker 2: Right?
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Speaker 1: And that's and you know, you look at the history
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Speaker 1: of games where teams are playing for a second time
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Speaker 1: in a season, and a lot of times the second
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Speaker 1: game is lower scoring than the first. You know, Ohio
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Speaker 1: State's two examples in modern history are nineteen seventy five
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Speaker 1: where they beat UCLA something forty to you know, seventeen
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Speaker 1: or something in the first game and then lost the
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Speaker 1: second game you know something in the twenties to ten,
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Speaker 1: and then in again in the twenty nineteen season they
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Speaker 1: beat Wisconsin thirty eight seven and the second.
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Speaker 2: One was what thirty one.
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Speaker 1: Seventeen or thirty one twenty something like that, it was
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Speaker 1: much closer.
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Speaker 3: Even Jim Knowles has done this once in his career,
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Speaker 3: played a Baylor twice, I think in twenty eight twenty one,
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Speaker 3: and the second game I think Oklaos State lost.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so this may be this Maybe this is shows
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Speaker 1: just kind of turning into like a this is my
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Speaker 1: scratch paper where I'm sort of working this out in
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Speaker 1: my head it does seem like the Ohio State defense
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Speaker 1: is better than it was before. Plus the rematch tends
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Speaker 1: to be a little lower scoring. So okay, So now
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Speaker 1: I'm sort of narrowing myself down into probably winning team
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Speaker 1: in the twenties something like that, So like a twenty
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Speaker 1: eight twenty four kind of game, something in that neighborhood,
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Speaker 1: and I could talk myself into that.
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Speaker 2: When I'm looking at this all week. The thing that
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Speaker 2: I it's just been.
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Speaker 1: Sort of rattling around my head is, Okay, which is
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Speaker 1: the weakest of the four units of these you know,
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Speaker 1: O High State.
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Speaker 2: OFFENSI HIGHS Day Defense, Orgon offense, Organ defense.
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Speaker 1: That's one of the things where if I'm not sure
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Speaker 1: what to do, I kind of look and I go, okay, you,
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Speaker 1: which of you has the worst whatever it is, and
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Speaker 1: that team is probably not going to win. And to me,
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Speaker 1: that's the Oregon defense is potentially the weak link of
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Speaker 1: the four. And it's not that the Oregon defense is terrible,
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Speaker 1: it's just that the Ohiosted offense, the Organ offense, the
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Speaker 1: highs Day defense or all among the top five in
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Speaker 1: the country by pretty much any metric, and the Organ defenses,
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Speaker 1: like in the twenties or the thirties, depending on which
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Speaker 1: metric you want to look at. Is that something that
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Speaker 1: you're looking at you're thinking about when you're trying to
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Speaker 1: figure out because normally, when we watch a couple games
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Speaker 1: with these teams, like we watched with Tennessee, you're watching
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Speaker 1: Georgia a couple of years ago, you go in going, Okay,
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Speaker 1: we've seen them the press, we've seen them at the worst,
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Speaker 1: We've seen them at their kind of like medium points.
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Speaker 1: You kind of have an idea like where the outer
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Speaker 1: bounds of this are. And obviously we see every Ohio
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Speaker 1: State game this week this year with Oregon, we saw
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Speaker 1: them beat Ohio State in a great game where neither
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Speaker 1: team played perfectly.
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Speaker 2: We saw them look like absolute butt cheeks.
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Speaker 1: At Wisconsin, we saw them get absolutely just annihilate Washington,
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Speaker 1: and then we saw them get run over by Penn
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Speaker 1: State and have to win a shootout. And it's like, okay,
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Speaker 1: so is this the team that's going to play in
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Speaker 1: the forties with wiscon with Penn State or the team
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Speaker 1: that's gonna win sixteen thirteen against Wisconsin.
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Speaker 2: And they can kind of do it all? It just
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Speaker 2: they can.
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Speaker 1: They have won every game they've played, and they've won
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Speaker 1: every game that's been in, all these different, different sort
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Speaker 1: of buckets of games. So I guess to get back
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Speaker 1: to my point about the Oregon defense, is that the
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Speaker 1: thing that is the deciding factor in this game.
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Speaker 3: You know, it's unfortunate that as we watched the Washington
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Speaker 3: the Wisconsin Washington Penn State game, we did not get
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Speaker 3: to see them face a passing offense that was legitimate,
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Speaker 3: Like we got to see that against Tennessee. They got
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Speaker 3: to play some teams and quarterbacks really tore them up.
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Speaker 3: They didn't get to face any kind of those offenses. Now,
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Speaker 3: freshman quarterback Demand Williams for Washington was seventeen to twenty
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Speaker 3: against them, so that's something. But Penn State's passing game,
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Speaker 3: the receivers, they haven't faced any kind of receivers since
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Speaker 3: Ohio State and Ohio State went for three hundred and
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Speaker 3: twenty some yards through the air. So I think the
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Speaker 3: secondary is the weak point. I like Oregon's linebackers, we
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Speaker 3: like the defensive line. They disappeared against Penn State for
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Speaker 3: whatever reason. But yeah, that's secondary and it is kind
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Speaker 3: of similar to Tennessee. I've not been so bullish on
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Speaker 3: the fact that if you just protect Will Howard, you
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Speaker 3: will win like they like I was against Tennessee because
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Speaker 3: that secondary.
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Speaker 4: But these corners can be had the safeties.
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Speaker 3: Do you remember many plays being made by the safeties
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Speaker 3: in the three games? But do do they need to
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Speaker 3: other than coming down and trying to crash on on
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Speaker 3: Penn State's running game, which apparently they didn't do very
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Speaker 3: well because Penn State went for two hundred and ninety
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Speaker 3: two yards on the ground.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's so hard to square the games that we've
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Speaker 1: seen because you get such different performances. And as you said, Washington,
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Speaker 1: you know they threw the ball for a high completion percentage,
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Speaker 1: they didn't.
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Speaker 2: Pick up a million yards.
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin has not been able to throw on anyone all season,
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Speaker 1: and Penn State didn't really need to throw on anyone.
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Speaker 1: And their offense is so Tyler Warren centric that it's
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Speaker 1: like kind of doesn't apply.
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Speaker 2: Even if it works, it's kind of not what Ohio
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Speaker 2: State does. So all right, So have you settled it
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Speaker 2: on a score prediction?
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Speaker 4: I did send mine in.
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Speaker 1: Okay, Well, I'm gonna listen to you say yours, but
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Speaker 1: I think I'm I'm dialing in. I think, why don't
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Speaker 1: you go first?
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Speaker 3: I went to thirty four to twenty four Ohio State. Again,
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Speaker 3: this offense is really difficult to stop. Oregon's offense is
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Speaker 3: really difficult to stop, so is Ohio State's. Think Ohio
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Speaker 3: State is going to be a little bit better defensively.
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Speaker 3: So if they're better defensively, shouldn't there'd be a fewer
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Speaker 3: points on the board. And I think offensively, they left
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Speaker 3: some points on the board against Oregon the first time.
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Speaker 4: And I'm not saying that now. I do have an
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Speaker 4: issue with my score.
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Speaker 3: And as we're talking about it now that I apparently
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Speaker 3: have them kicking two field goals, I.
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Speaker 2: Was gonna say, we haven't talked special teams yet, so
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Speaker 2: that is.
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Speaker 3: That is a concern that Again, I was typing this
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Speaker 3: out on my phone and you know, just trying to
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Speaker 3: get it in because again just putting it off and
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Speaker 3: not not necessarily every time. And so I settled in
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Speaker 3: on thirty four to twenty four. And then after the
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Speaker 3: fact and my quar how do they get there?
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Speaker 1: That's not important right now, too late, I've already hit
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Speaker 1: the send button. Nothing can be done about that. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: I think twenty four feels about right for Oregon, and
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Speaker 1: I just I don't know, I could see Ohio State
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Speaker 1: getting in the thirties. I'm going to say though, that
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Speaker 1: this is a closer game, that this is like a
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Speaker 1: twenty eight to twenty four Ohio State game. It just
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Speaker 1: feels like it's going to be a little lower scoring
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Speaker 1: than the first time.
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Speaker 2: It's going to be.
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Speaker 1: Tight like it was the last time. It should be
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Speaker 1: a very very close game. I'm expecting an absolute classic.
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Speaker 1: And this is one of these things where you don't
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Speaker 1: want to get a college game day where they pity
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Speaker 1: you know, everyone picks the same team, Like I was
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Speaker 1: fully prepared to pick a organ and then you know
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Speaker 1: when when they announce the bracket to think, you know, okay,
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Speaker 1: Ohio State's don't We don't know what Organ's going to
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Speaker 1: look like coming in off of all of this rest.
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Speaker 2: Are they going to be rusty or are they going
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Speaker 2: to be fresh?
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Speaker 1: Is Ohio State going to be a little bit beat
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Speaker 1: up from the lost game or are they going to
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Speaker 1: be in their sort of normal rhythm.
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Speaker 2: And we haven't seen this in the.
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Speaker 1: College football playoff right yet, where one team has the
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Speaker 1: buy and one team doesn't. So we're all going to
15:47
Speaker 1: be kind of learning this together on New Year's even
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Speaker 1: New Year's Day. It just I just think this is
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Speaker 1: going to be a close game. And you know, at
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Speaker 1: that point, Hey, the difference between Ohio State blowing Penn
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Speaker 1: State out and barely beating Penn State was Will Howard
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Speaker 1: fumbled the ball here instead of here and it was
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Speaker 1: just and the ball went out of the end zone
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Speaker 1: instead of being a touchdown, and so Penn State got
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Speaker 1: the ball back.
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Speaker 2: That was a fourth, you know, a seven point swing
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Speaker 2: right there. And it was that.
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Speaker 1: And in a game like this, you're going to have
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Speaker 1: there is going to be a play. There's going to
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Speaker 1: be a do they call the offensive pass interference or
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Speaker 1: don't they?
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Speaker 2: Do they rule that this was a fumble? Or do
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Speaker 2: they not? On a tight end down the middle.
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Speaker 1: For the Oregon fans, there's going to be a bunch
16:30
Speaker 1: of that stuff. Did Will Howard slide with one second
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Speaker 1: left or zero seconds left? It's going to come down
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Speaker 1: to something like that, and it should be. I was
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Speaker 1: thinking about the two thousand and six Rose Bowl, the usc.
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Speaker 2: Usc and Texas.
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Speaker 1: Won the Vince Young Reggie Bush game, and I think
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Speaker 1: you could be in for that kind of game where
16:53
Speaker 1: it's reasonably highest scare it was. You know, the nineteen
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Speaker 1: ninety seven Rose Bowl Highsted Arizona State was a classic,
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Speaker 1: but it was a classic for like five minutes. And
17:02
Speaker 1: that was a fifty five minute that's a crappy football game,
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Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden it was like, oh boy,
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Speaker 1: and everyone's now everyone's scoring and it's very exciting. This
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Speaker 1: could be a sixty minute you know, if you get
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Speaker 1: what you got in New Gene.
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Speaker 2: This is an old timer.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean this was.
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Speaker 3: This is a rematch of arguably the game of the year.
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Speaker 3: So I wrote about it today. It's the rematch of
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Speaker 3: the year. Basically, name another name a bigger rematch this
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Speaker 3: year time. I don't think you can.
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Speaker 2: I don't.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think everybody is expecting another classic. The crowd
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Speaker 3: is going to be incredible. Both coaches talk about how
17:32
Speaker 3: electric it's going to be in there. I'm looking forward
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Speaker 3: to seeing what the makeup is of the colors in there.
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Speaker 3: Probably some Christmas colors, some holiday colors in there, I'm expecting.
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Speaker 3: So I'm just I can't wait. Together, we're going to
17:43
Speaker 3: get there as early as possible and just soak it
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Speaker 3: all in and get it to you guys.
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Speaker 1: Well, we will have more coming up a little later
17:49
Speaker 1: on on the thirty first, have a live show coming
17:52
Speaker 1: up a little later on the afternoon. I'm going to
17:54
Speaker 1: try and run over to Olhigh State marching band practice
17:56
Speaker 1: and see if we can get some of that, some
17:58
Speaker 1: video of that for you guys, maybe some interviews and
18:00
Speaker 1: throw something together on that, because the band being out
18:02
Speaker 1: here is obviously big part of the story as well.
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18:06
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