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2026 Ohio State Buckeyes Football Schedule: Instant Reaction · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Wednesday, January twenty eighth,
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  Speaker 1: truck is today. All right, we now can do a
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  Speaker 1: countdown for every game on the Ohio State regular season schedule,
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  Speaker 1: not just that first game, in the last game, in
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  Speaker 1: a couple of the non conference games in between. The
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  Speaker 1: schedule just dropped officially for the twenty twenty six ohighsted
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  Speaker 1: football schedule, and welcoming our buddy, Tony Gerderman Ifuckeheadle dot com. Tony.
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  Speaker 1: We'll just do this in groups of three. The first
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  Speaker 1: three these are all dates we already new. September fifth
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  Speaker 1: hosting ball State, September twelfth at Texas, September nineteenth hosting
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  Speaker 1: Kent State. No, you know, no surprises there, no actual
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  Speaker 1: announcements there, So we'll just move right on to the
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  Speaker 1: next three. This is where things start getting interesting. September
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  Speaker 1: twenty sixth, they open against Illinois at home, Open Big
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  Speaker 1: Ten play. October third, they play at Iowa, and then
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  Speaker 1: October tenth, welcoming in the Maryland Terrapins.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is interesting because when we did our projection,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not sure if it was this show or Bucky Weekly.
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  Speaker 2: We were correct with Illinois. Opening with Illinois just feels
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  Speaker 2: like it's a a good opener, has some splash, but
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  Speaker 2: ohios takeets to open at home, so you've got a
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  Speaker 2: little bit of a little ramp there before you have
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  Speaker 2: to head off to Iowa, and then you get a
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  Speaker 2: nice little come down getting Maryland back at home. So
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  Speaker 2: it's like you ramp up and then you get to
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  Speaker 2: just calm yourself before what comes next.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and what comes next is probably the most challenging
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  Speaker 1: part of the schedule, even though there is and at
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  Speaker 1: there is an off week in the middle of it.
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  Speaker 1: October seventeenth, they play at Indiana. We knew that already.
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  Speaker 1: We had our that about a week ago and told
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  Speaker 1: you guys about that. After that comes the off week,
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  Speaker 1: and then after the off week October thirty first they
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  Speaker 1: go out to USC. That is going to be a
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  Speaker 1: challenging one, and there's we'll just go ahead and skip
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  Speaker 1: one game ahead just because that's kind of an important
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  Speaker 1: part of this thing. Oregon the week after that, on
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  Speaker 1: November seventh, they got it feels like as good a
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  Speaker 1: sandwich around that Indiana game as they can with Maryland
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  Speaker 1: and then an off week. But man, going out to
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  Speaker 1: the West Coast to play what should be a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good USC team and then having to come home to
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  Speaker 1: play Oregon the week after that, that feels like, man,
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  Speaker 1: that is this is where you get you know, this
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  Speaker 1: is this is where the ESPN commentary around this Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State team should be about how challenging this murderers schedule
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  Speaker 1: and oh boy, this is difficult because those feel like
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  Speaker 1: those are three teams there in four weeks that are
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  Speaker 1: all really potent chol College Football playoff contenders.
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  Speaker 2: At the very least, it wouldn't surprise me if they're
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  Speaker 2: all top ten at that point. And we'll see if
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  Speaker 2: USC can maintain that and frankly, if Indiana can maintain
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  Speaker 2: it or if Ohio State can maintain it. But like,
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  Speaker 2: these are all three games that could be the first
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  Speaker 2: time it could be the first time that they're meeting
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  Speaker 2: for you know, what would be two times or three
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  Speaker 2: times in the postseason. Any of these teams could be
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  Speaker 2: involved in any of that, and you get your little break.
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  Speaker 2: We knew there'd be a break around the USC trip,
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  Speaker 2: and to have it after Indiana and then before USC
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  Speaker 2: is a nice nod from the Big Ten. But then
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  Speaker 2: the Big Ten is like, remember that nod that I
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  Speaker 2: gave you. You appreciated that, right, Well, once you get
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  Speaker 2: back from LA, then you're gonna have to play Oregon.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you've got them at home, so no big deal.
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  Speaker 2: But that's a tough back to back. That's one of
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  Speaker 2: the you know, I wonder how many back to backs
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  Speaker 2: like that are around the nation and how many into
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  Speaker 2: Big Ten are going to be that difficult, because that's
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  Speaker 2: a tough ass to go out that far and then
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  Speaker 2: come back and face a team that is looking for
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  Speaker 2: a Big Ten championship and looking for you know, probably
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  Speaker 2: some measure of revenge and all of those good things.
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  Speaker 2: But also, man, that's going to be a good bunch
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  Speaker 2: of weeks of viewing of Big Ten football, especially as
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  Speaker 2: it relates to Ohio State. But yeah, you go almost
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  Speaker 2: you go four weeks without a home game for Ohio State,
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  Speaker 2: so that Oregon game, the Buckeye fans should be ramped
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  Speaker 2: up for that one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I would assume that people will be pretty
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  Speaker 1: ramped up for that one either way. That has turned
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  Speaker 1: into a decent little rivalry, little, a little bit unofficial,
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  Speaker 1: but still a pretty decent rivalry. And also before we
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  Speaker 1: get to the back half of this count of this schedule,
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  Speaker 1: it is interesting how difficult this schedule is for Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State and Penn State's not on there. Penn State has
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  Speaker 1: always been the fixture on these schedules for basically thirty
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  Speaker 1: something years, and then they're not on there this time.
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  Speaker 1: This is the first time that Penn State has been
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  Speaker 1: in the Big Ten and not played Ohio State. I
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  Speaker 1: believe pretty sure that's correct. And you still have you know,
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  Speaker 1: mentioned at Texas, Illinois should be challenging, at Iowa should
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  Speaker 1: be challenging, at Indiana should be challenging, at USC should
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  Speaker 1: be challenging. Oregon should be challenging. We got one more
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  Speaker 1: coming up at the end here that could be a
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  Speaker 1: challenge as well for the Buckeyes. But man, it just
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  Speaker 1: it feels like this is this is a really really
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  Speaker 1: difficult draw for Ohio State. And they don't even have
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  Speaker 1: Penn State on there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah no, and that's that is significant. And when you
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  Speaker 2: look at the entire thing, I like the start for
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  Speaker 2: Ohio State today. You don't have to open with Texas,
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  Speaker 2: but you get something before Texas, and then you get
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  Speaker 2: something after Texas. But then you basically there are no
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  Speaker 2: there are no two week stretches where you've you've got
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  Speaker 2: two weeks off. You get one week off at best.
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  Speaker 2: You've got Maryland here, then you've got an off week,
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  Speaker 2: then you've got a Northwestern like, there's no two weeks
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  Speaker 2: like Ohio State. This past year was there maybe a
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  Speaker 2: month of nothing and here you get one week of
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  Speaker 2: you know, a nothing ish kind of game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you can take a little bit of a breather,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, you do not have the month of
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  Speaker 1: snacky cakes like they did at various times on last
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  Speaker 1: year's schedule. So all right, we'll close it out with
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  Speaker 1: the final three games of the regular season. November fourteenth,
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  Speaker 1: they played Northwestern at home. That is certainly going to
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  Speaker 1: be a presumably a pretty winnable game. November twenty, first
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  Speaker 1: they go to Nebraska. We'll see what the weather in
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  Speaker 1: Lincoln is like. I don't think we've been out there
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  Speaker 1: for a real late season game, and I don't think
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  Speaker 1: like October feels like. But I don't think we've been
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  Speaker 1: out there for a real, real late season game before,
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  Speaker 1: so that'll be interesting. And then of course November twenty
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  Speaker 1: eighth against Michigan, we had sort of speculated that they
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  Speaker 1: might have Ohio State go on the road. It feels
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  Speaker 1: like the home team in the Ohio State Michigan game
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  Speaker 1: is almost always it feels like on the road the
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  Speaker 1: week before that. For whatever reason. That just feels like
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  Speaker 1: sort of a pattern that the Big Ten has sort
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  Speaker 1: of put together and that will continue this this year.
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  Speaker 1: But you know that that Nebraska game is not necessarily
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is this is the time of year
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  Speaker 1: when everyone speaks optimistically about Nebraska and then you know,
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  Speaker 1: and then November happens. But you know that that game
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  Speaker 1: for against Nebraska, that's a potential look ahead spot for
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State. And going into what should presumably be a
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  Speaker 1: pretty consequential Ohio State Michigan game as per usual.
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  Speaker 2: Well you know it's going to be a big game
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  Speaker 2: for Nebraska because that'll be the point of the season
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  Speaker 2: where they need to go like four to oh down
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  Speaker 2: the stretch to people eligible. So they're going to need
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  Speaker 2: every single win and they're going to be either either
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  Speaker 2: locked in or opted out by that point. But again,
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  Speaker 2: I think anytime you go on the road against somebody
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  Speaker 2: with a pulse, just be wary. We were at Purdue
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  Speaker 2: in twenty eighteen, We were at Iowa in twenty seventeen.
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  Speaker 2: Those games are hard to ignore and hard to move
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  Speaker 2: past that, you know, to ever forget because we saw
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  Speaker 2: what could happen. So we'll talk about it maybe in
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  Speaker 2: a later show, especially where this game sits, where the
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  Speaker 2: Nebraska game sits. Just be careful. We were at the
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  Speaker 2: Maryland game in twenty twenty eighteen before Michigan. That'll wake
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  Speaker 2: you up in the morning that game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we were at the Maryland game in twenty eighteen.
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  Speaker 1: We were at the Maryland game in twenty twenty what two.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, that was another one that was close, closer
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  Speaker 1: than you expected at one point in the late in
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  Speaker 1: the second half. So there you go, we'll we will.
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  Speaker 1: I'm looking at this schedule and going, man, these are
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  Speaker 1: five really good road games, and they're five really good
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  Speaker 1: road trips and their five fially really good road opponents.
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  Speaker 1: We could almost do one show ranking the challenging five
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  Speaker 1: road games and one game ranking the the five road
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  Speaker 1: trips that are maybe most interesting. It is going to
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  Speaker 1: be a very fun season as Tony and I hit
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  Speaker 1: the road with the you know, all the other people
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  Speaker 1: that hit the road with us, you know who they are.
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  Speaker 1: But we will be there for all the all the
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  Speaker 1: fun this fall during what should be a really really
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  Speaker 1: exciting Ohio State football schedule. It's nice to sort of
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  Speaker 1: be able to put dates on this and sort of
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  Speaker 1: start to figure out travel plans and all that kind
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. But you can find us at bucke huddle
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  Speaker 1: dot com and YouTube dot com slash bucke Huddle follow
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  Speaker 1: along with all that fun stuff. So that will do
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  Speaker 1: for today. Thank you guys all for joining us. Have
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  Speaker 1: a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.