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BONUS: Why Did Ohio State Have So Much Success Against Maryland? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: All right, we're back with another bonus show. You're going
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  Speaker 1: to get to hear a little bit from Maryland head
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  Speaker 1: coach Mike Loxley. He is in a fascinating situation right
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  Speaker 1: now and not a good kind of fascinating. His job
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  Speaker 1: status still very much up in the air. Looks like
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  Speaker 1: he's going to get to coach at least one more week,
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  Speaker 1: but not a great time for the Maryland football program.
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  Speaker 1: And when you're not having a great time in your
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  Speaker 1: football program, that is not a great time to have
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  Speaker 1: to go to Columbus, Ohio to play the Ohio State Buckeyes.
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  Speaker 1: So we're going to let you hear a little bit
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  Speaker 1: from Mike Loxley. If you want to hear from Ryan Day,
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  Speaker 1: his thoughts, After the game, that is in the Buckeyes
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  Speaker 1: Tomorrow Morning podcast feed that dropped on Sunday night. But
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  Speaker 1: here's Mike Loxley just with some general thoughts on the
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  Speaker 1: game and the challenge that they were facing.
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  Speaker 2: Credit Ohio State. Really deserving of their ranking. Made the
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  Speaker 2: plays they needed to make. You got to execute extremely
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  Speaker 2: well against teams like Ohio State. We didn't make enough
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  Speaker 2: winning plays. There were a couple positives. I thought winning
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  Speaker 2: the turnover battle. And defensively, the goal was to come
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  Speaker 2: in and we had to limit the opportunities Ohio State had.
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  Speaker 2: We tried to shrink the game on offense with longer
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  Speaker 2: play clock. We wanted to create turnovers. The goal was two.
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  Speaker 2: We did that. I thought, you know, they continued to
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  Speaker 2: fight in the second half, but ultimately it wasn't good enough.
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  Speaker 2: And for me, that's the part as the head coach,
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  Speaker 2: I got to make it good enough. And we'll be
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  Speaker 2: back home next week against Rutgers. Very winnable game for
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  Speaker 2: us at home for homecoming. We got to work our
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  Speaker 2: ass off this week. I look forward to showing up tomorrow,
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  Speaker 2: putting this one behind us and starting our run.
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  Speaker 1: It's always interesting to hear the opposing coach talk about
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  Speaker 1: what went wrong or what went right for them in
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  Speaker 1: certain cases. He was asked to sort of evaluate how
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  Speaker 1: his defense played against Ohio State and where they needed
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  Speaker 1: to be better.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, getting two turnovers today was a positive
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  Speaker 2: for us. I think the limiting of the explosives, which
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  Speaker 2: to me, when they're the passing variety like they were today,
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  Speaker 2: that usually comes with leverage, eye control. I thought we
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  Speaker 2: had a couple opportunities to have a couple extra turnovers.
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  Speaker 2: I think we had a drop interception by number five.
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  Speaker 2: So to me, it's the consistency of being able to
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  Speaker 2: limit those explosives at the most inopportune time.
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  Speaker 1: The Ohio State defense completely locked down Maryland's passing game.
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  Speaker 1: They only threw for 64 yards all game for quarterback
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  Speaker 1: Malik Washington. So Where did he struggle and what did
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State do to lock them down so effectively?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, obviously, missing some throws. I don't think his
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  Speaker 2: percentage was great. It's early to watch for me. I
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  Speaker 2: get to see some of it quickly on the sideline
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  Speaker 2: with the replay of the video. But I can tell you,
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  Speaker 2: usually when he struggles, it's not just the quarterback. It's
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  Speaker 2: whether the protection held up long enough. The weather, we
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  Speaker 2: created space. You know, they played a lot of man
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  Speaker 2: coverage today. We ended up not creating enough space, but
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  Speaker 2: we also missed some throws. I thought the throw to
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  Speaker 2: DeJuan early in the first quarter where he was down
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  Speaker 2: the wheel route down the sideline would have been a
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  Speaker 2: huge play. And to me, that's those plays that we
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  Speaker 2: got to figure out how to make, which to me,
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  Speaker 2: we got to watch on tape and get fixed.
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  Speaker 1: Following that game, the Terrapins are on a four-game losing streak,
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  Speaker 1: pretty clearly in the final days of the Mike Loxley era,
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  Speaker 1: one way or another. He got asked, why he deserves
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  Speaker 1: a chance to keep being the coach there. And boy,
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  Speaker 1: take a second and listen to this and appreciate the
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  Speaker 1: fact that it's been a while since an Ohio state
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  Speaker 1: coach got asked that question.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, again, my focus is on Rutgers for next
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  Speaker 2: week is not on anything other than that. Uh, my
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  Speaker 2: job as the head coach is to evaluate each week, uh,
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  Speaker 2: the things that show up on tape. I'll keep showing
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  Speaker 2: up tomorrow, Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, uh, with a plan to
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  Speaker 2: attack the issues that show up, uh, today. I thought
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  Speaker 2: we did, uh, a little better on those second and
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  Speaker 2: extra longs, but we didn't sustain enough drives on offense.
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  Speaker 2: And that's the best way you can stop the differential
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  Speaker 2: and the point totals is if we can sustain drives
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  Speaker 2: and get points, touchdowns in the red zone.
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  Speaker 1: The Ohio State defense got the game off to a
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  Speaker 1: very good start, forcing a couple of three and outs
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  Speaker 1: to start that game. How much did that slow start
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  Speaker 1: for Maryland's offense get them out of what they wanted
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  Speaker 1: to do against the Buckeyes?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I've been a little concerned about him a week ago.
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  Speaker 2: I thought we started a little faster after the running
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  Speaker 2: into the punter a week ago. This week, the three
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  Speaker 2: and outs don't help us. Our goal was to try
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  Speaker 2: to find a way to sustain drives, which uses clock. Today,
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  Speaker 2: time was one of the parts of our game plan
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  Speaker 2: that we didn't get accomplished. We were able to get
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  Speaker 2: a couple turnovers, didn't sustain the drives, which would have
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  Speaker 2: given us a chance to limit them on offense.
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  Speaker 1: Feels like all year long, we've talked about the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Ohio State has been struggling to hit big plays
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  Speaker 1: and they haven't been explosive in the run game. And
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  Speaker 1: that's been a big concern for Ryan Day, even going
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  Speaker 1: back to spring ball. So then when Ohio State hit
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  Speaker 1: them for a bunch of long plays, what caused that
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  Speaker 1: for Maryland's end?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the difference when you play man and zone
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  Speaker 2: and guys playing with great eye discipline on the back end.
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  Speaker 2: A week ago, we felt, you know, there were a
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  Speaker 2: bunch of, a lot of air in our defense today.
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  Speaker 2: We played a lot of undercoverage. When you play under coverage,
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  Speaker 2: the ball sails, and we had a couple interceptions or
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  Speaker 2: a couple chances at interceptions from making the ball sail.
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  Speaker 2: When we play man, it's where we got in trouble today,
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  Speaker 2: and we've got to be able to get the ball
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  Speaker 2: on the ground once it's caught because they were catching
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  Speaker 2: runs and not the deep variety other than the tight
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  Speaker 2: end and the blown coverage.
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  Speaker 1: And finally, Ohio State had kind of a patchwork offensive line,
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  Speaker 1: had Jake Cook playing at right guard, had Gabe VanSickle
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  Speaker 1: kicking out to right tackle. So there were some questions.
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  Speaker 1: about just how well the Buckeyes were going to be
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  Speaker 1: able to run the ball. And it turned out the
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  Speaker 1: answer was just fine, thank you very much. They ran
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  Speaker 1: for more than 200 yards. So from Maryland's side, what
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  Speaker 1: went wrong there?
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  Speaker 2: Well, the tackling didn't show up as much as it
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  Speaker 2: has the last couple of weeks, which usually means it's
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  Speaker 2: gap integrity. When you see the ball squirt out of
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  Speaker 2: backside A's and B's, the way our defense is structured
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  Speaker 2: is every gap should be controlled. And As you watch
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  Speaker 2: the tape, the gap integrity in the run game is
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  Speaker 2: going to be something that's going to be really, really
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  Speaker 2: important moving forward. I know next week, Rutgers, their rushing game,
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  Speaker 2: their running back is one of the top in the league,
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  Speaker 2: if not the country. So finding a way to make
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  Speaker 2: sure our gap integrity is intact is going to be critical.
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  Speaker 1: All right. I just always think that's a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of an interesting perspective. You hear the Ohio State side
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  Speaker 1: of things and you got to think about the fact that, well,
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  Speaker 1: there's a team on the other side who also is
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  Speaker 1: a Big Ten team. and has scholarships and coaches getting
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  Speaker 1: paid a whole bunch of money. And they're trying to
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  Speaker 1: stop Ohio State or score on Ohio State. So what
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  Speaker 1: went wrong from their side of things? That I always
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  Speaker 1: think is kind of an interesting perspective. You get a
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  Speaker 1: little bit of a different look at things. So there
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  Speaker 1: you go. That was Mike Loxley. As I said earlier,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to hear Ryan Day's thoughts on the game,
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  Speaker 1: you can find that in the Buckeyes tomorrow morning feed.
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  Speaker 1: That episode dropped on Sunday evening. But man, we are
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  Speaker 1: going to have so much more coverage for you all
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  Speaker 1: week long at BuckeyeInsiders.com. Going to have our scheme guys
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  Speaker 1: in to talk about what they saw from the game
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  Speaker 1: against Maryland and what they're expecting to see in the
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  Speaker 1: game against Indiana. There was a bunch of recruits on campus.
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  Speaker 1: Jack Mileti has had already a couple articles on that.
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  Speaker 1: Have a photo gallery of all those recruits up as well.
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  Speaker 1: Have a photo gallery of the game up there. Have
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  Speaker 1: Tony Gerdeman's analysis. We have some breakdowns from Marcus Hartman
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  Speaker 1: as well. Tons of great content from that Maryland game.
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  Speaker 1: already at BuckeyeInsiders.com. And we're going to have so much
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