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Ohio State Football Announces More 2026 Kickoff Times · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes Tomorrow morning for Thursday, May twenty eighth,
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  Speaker 1: the im're your host, tom or the ball State game
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  Speaker 1: in exactly one hundred days, the game against Michigan in
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  Speaker 1: one hundred and eighty four days. Our friends with Grateful Griddle,
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  Speaker 1: And in addition to the ball State game now being
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  Speaker 1: in exactly one hundred days, if I knew what time
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  Speaker 1: it was where you are, I could tell you exactly
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  Speaker 1: how many hours and maybe even minutes to the ball
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  Speaker 1: State game. Because we have a kickoff time for Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State's season opener, as well as another game a little
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  Speaker 1: down the line and a little more information about it.
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  Speaker 1: Another one even further down the line can be joined
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  Speaker 1: by Tony Gerdaman if Bucky Huddle dot com. Tony, some
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  Speaker 1: great news for Ohio State fans. The season opener against
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  Speaker 1: ball State will not be a noon cackoff. Buckeyes get
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  Speaker 1: a later kickoff time inside the Horseshoe for the season opener. Tony,
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  Speaker 1: what time is the season opener kicking.
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  Speaker 2: Off Tom twelve thirty pm on Big ten networks, So yes,
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  Speaker 2: no twelve pm, no nuone kickoff time. Great seal job
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  Speaker 2: on that, And now people have smashed things if they
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  Speaker 2: didn't already know the kickoff time. Do you recall the
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  Speaker 2: last twelve thirty kickoff? That's a I know, like the
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  Speaker 2: big noon is it like twelve fifteen or something? But
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  Speaker 2: twelve thirty is an odd one? Is that? Is that
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  Speaker 2: the norm for Big ten network? Have Have I missed
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  Speaker 2: that last year? Or is this something new where they're
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  Speaker 2: going to kind of offset, you know, the scheduling so
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  Speaker 2: that there's always something to watch going on.
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  Speaker 1: I wonder, yeah, And if you're wondering why it is
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  Speaker 1: twelve thirty, that would be why you would do it.
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  Speaker 1: So that if if everything kicks off at exactly twelve
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  Speaker 1: or twelve ten or twelve fifteen, then everything tends to
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  Speaker 1: end at the same time. So the scintillating final minutes
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  Speaker 1: of the Ohio State ball state game will have its
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  Speaker 1: own little TV window after the noon games have have
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  Speaker 1: wrapped up. I don't remember a twelve thirty kickoff for
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State over the last few years. I mean they
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  Speaker 1: had they've had some weird ones. I remember back in
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  Speaker 1: the nineties when it was still a student where they
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  Speaker 1: had a game against Minnesota that I don't think was
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  Speaker 1: on TV at all, and that was like a one
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  Speaker 1: thirty kickoff or something like that, and that was sort
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  Speaker 1: of the traditional time for Ohio State kickoffs. I don't
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  Speaker 1: remember a twelve thirty, but that's one of those things
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  Speaker 1: that I feel like, with the passage of time, will
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  Speaker 1: probably just have sort of like vanished and you just
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  Speaker 1: remember it as a twelve o'clock kickoff. But yeah, so
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  Speaker 1: twelve thirty kickoff, Big ten network for ball State, we
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  Speaker 1: already knew the kickoff time and network. For game number two,
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  Speaker 1: you already know that as well. That is Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: at Texas. That is a seven to thirty pm kickoff
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  Speaker 1: on ABC because of course that game being at Texas
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  Speaker 1: is covered by the SEC TV contract, not the Big
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  Speaker 1: Tens TV contract. The third game, though, Tony, this one
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  Speaker 1: was a little bit of a surprise to me, the
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  Speaker 1: Kent State game. This is one where you go back
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  Speaker 1: over the last few years, and typically not the first
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  Speaker 1: week of the season, but a couple weeks into the season.
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State plays some poor team from in state beats
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  Speaker 1: them by sixty points and it is a prime time
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  Speaker 1: kickoff on Big ten network. I would have bet, you know,
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  Speaker 1: at least at least a serving of press box scrambled eggs.
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  Speaker 1: This was not going to be a noon kickoff, but noon,
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  Speaker 1: big noon kickoff. How enthused is Gus Johnson going to
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  Speaker 1: be for the Kent State golden flashing?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah? I mean not a lot. And that's no no
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  Speaker 2: offense of course to Kent Stay. But I'm looking over
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  Speaker 2: like the Big ten schedule that week and it's it's
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  Speaker 2: not great. You do have North Dakota at Nebraska, You've
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  Speaker 2: got Colorado at Northwestern and USC at Rutgers, but you
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  Speaker 2: know who, you can't punish USC like that, I don't
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  Speaker 2: believe so so it's not a it's not a great week.
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  Speaker 2: Although Virginia Tech at Maryland, who wouldn't want to, Well,
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  Speaker 2: that's more of a Raycom game. I think I wanted
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  Speaker 2: to get the ray Com schedule in that one tom
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, Big Noon, you could only avoid it for
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  Speaker 2: so long. The fact that Ohio State fans got through,
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  Speaker 2: you know, had to wait until week three for Big Noon,
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  Speaker 2: I think is that's a win and there's more winning
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  Speaker 2: to come.
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  Speaker 1: There is more winning to come. Another game where we
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  Speaker 1: don't have an exact kickoff time, but we have a
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  Speaker 1: better sense for the kickoff time is Maryland. That's the
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  Speaker 1: homecoming weekend game for Ohio State. They tend to not
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  Speaker 1: want those to be noon kickoffs generally for homecoming games,
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  Speaker 1: and so we don't have an exact kickoff time, but
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  Speaker 1: we know that is another week when you can be
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  Speaker 1: marked safe from big noon kickoff.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's going to be, as Ohio State says, a
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  Speaker 2: three thirty or an eight pm kick with a network
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  Speaker 2: to be determined, that might be a banger of a
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  Speaker 2: big ten network FS one type of thing at night
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  Speaker 2: if they they could get it there. I know this
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  Speaker 2: is going to be one of those games where maybe
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  Speaker 2: Ryan Day doesn't want to play a night game the
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  Speaker 2: week before heading to Indiana, which that's the first time
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  Speaker 2: that's ever been said by anybody anywhere. But that is
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  Speaker 2: the following game, So would you rather have it earlier
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  Speaker 2: than later? Yeah, but yeah, that might not be a
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  Speaker 2: bad one. If Ohio State's looking to get some night games,
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  Speaker 2: and we know so far there are none at this
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  Speaker 2: point at home for the Buckeyes. You know, maybe that one,
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  Speaker 2: maybe the Illinois won a couple weeks earlier.
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  Speaker 1: And there is a rule that every Big ten team
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  Speaker 1: has to play two games on Big ten Network every season.
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  Speaker 1: We have the first one for Ohio State that's Week
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  Speaker 1: one against ball State, but one of those two games
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  Speaker 1: does have to be a conference game. So if you
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  Speaker 1: go back through the years, there's always a random Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State and Rutgers game, or Ohio State in Northwestern game
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  Speaker 1: or something like that that ends up on Big ten Network.
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  Speaker 1: My guess, and this is just a guess right now,
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  Speaker 1: but my guess would be that either that Maryland game
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  Speaker 1: or the Northwestern game ends up on Big ten Network.
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  Speaker 1: And the tricky thing with Big ten Network is that
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  Speaker 1: could be a new in game, that could be a
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  Speaker 1: three thirty game, that could be a night game. You
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  Speaker 1: don't really know. They have time slots kind of all
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  Speaker 1: over the map depending on which week it is, so
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  Speaker 1: that will be that's a little bit TBD. That's one
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  Speaker 1: of those sort of puzzle pieces that we know one
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  Speaker 1: of these is going to be a Big ten Network week,
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  Speaker 1: we don't know which one. The Michigan game is the
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  Speaker 1: last one where we already know the time and network
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  Speaker 1: that is a noon kickoff on Fox. That is sort
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  Speaker 1: of always the free space on the Bengo card. As
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  Speaker 1: you're predicting your your games every season, predicting your game
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  Speaker 1: time and network, that one is always a freebe the
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  Speaker 1: two games. There was a sort of a lively conversation
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  Speaker 1: that followed that in terms of, Okay, is Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: going to get a game at that is you know,
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  Speaker 1: a bigger game that is not a noon kickoff at home.
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  Speaker 1: We've been talking about it, and I think it's likely
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  Speaker 1: the Oregon game is maybe a three thirty. That would
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  Speaker 1: be where I am sort of leaning right now. And
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  Speaker 1: when you're looking at road games, that USC game that
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  Speaker 1: obviously is not going to be a big neon kickoff
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  Speaker 1: because they're playing it at USC, that may be a
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  Speaker 1: night game that's a that's a road one. But I
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  Speaker 1: think if you're going to get a you know, if
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  Speaker 1: you're going to get a gate consequential home game this
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  Speaker 1: year that is not a Fox Newon kickoff, your most
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  Speaker 1: likely chance that that would be the home game against Organ.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would agree with that, and that that's one
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  Speaker 2: where if it's not three thirty, I would be surprised.
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  Speaker 2: And the the others, you know, they're the Illinois, the Maryland,
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  Speaker 2: that sort of thing. It's like, you know, and I'm
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  Speaker 2: looking at the Maryland week and there's nothing scheduled in
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  Speaker 2: terms of no TV scheduled yet, like for for NBC
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  Speaker 2: at night because that's a Notre Dame home game at
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  Speaker 2: three thirty that day, so like maybe, and there's nothing
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  Speaker 2: scheduled for CBS yet on three thirty, so that could
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  Speaker 2: be either or or perhaps you know, like you said,
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  Speaker 2: Big ten network or who knows FS one maybe or
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  Speaker 2: something like that. I don't know. I don't know that
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  Speaker 2: you should. You'll be sending Ohio State a conference game
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  Speaker 2: with Ohio State to FS one, but you know there
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  Speaker 2: will be there will be at least a couple of
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  Speaker 2: night games. I would think at some point coming in here.
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  Speaker 2: It just won't be for the game you'd want it
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  Speaker 2: to be.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, exactly, it won't. It won't be for the Oregon
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  Speaker 1: game probably, but also we now know won't be for
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  Speaker 1: the Kent State game. So you won't get that sort
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  Speaker 1: of annual grumbling of well, you finally gave us a
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  Speaker 1: primetime game and it's an in state MAC team that
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  Speaker 1: you're you know, the game is gonna be over by
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  Speaker 1: the second quarter, so you'll at least have something new
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  Speaker 1: and refreshing to grumble about this year. When the season
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  Speaker 1: kicks off one hundred days from now twelve thirty pm
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  Speaker 1: inside the Horseshoe on Big Ten Network, Buckeyes and Ball
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  Speaker 1: State Cardinals will be there for that will be there
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  Speaker 1: for all the other games. You can follow it all
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  Speaker 1: on the Buckeye Weekly podcast feed and of course right
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  Speaker 1: here on buck Eyes tomorrow morning. That'll do it for today.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you guys all for joining us. Have a great day.
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  Speaker 1: We'll talk to you tomorrow.