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- 0:00Speaker 1: Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Sunday, November seventeenth time,
- 0:03Speaker 1: your host Tom wore. The Indiana game is in six days.
- 0:06Speaker 1: The game against Michigan in thirteen days. What a day
- 0:10Speaker 1: we just had on Saturday inside Wrigley Field in Chicago,
- 0:15Speaker 1: Illinois Buckeyes win thirty one seven. That was almost secondary
- 0:19Speaker 1: to all the other stuff, all the stuff that we
- 0:21Speaker 1: were really anticipating about this game really lived up to
- 0:25Speaker 1: all of the billing. I'm joining m kevinutobuckehell dot com.
- 0:29Speaker 1: You know, I've been here for baseball games before. I'm
- 0:31Speaker 1: sure you probably had been here for baseball games before.
- 0:35Speaker 1: But still, this was incredibly cool and they were a
- 0:38Speaker 1: boy were There were a lot of Ohio State fans
- 0:40Speaker 1: here to experience all of it.
- 0:43Speaker 2: Yeah, people always are like, oh is it sixty forty?
- 0:45Speaker 2: Is it seventy thirty? I mean it was like ninety
- 0:49Speaker 2: to one. I mean for every one Northwestern fan, there
- 0:51Speaker 2: were probably ninety Ohio State fans.
- 0:53Speaker 3: It was.
- 0:54Speaker 2: It was a sea of red. And Ryan Day talked
- 0:56Speaker 2: about in the post game just driving through Wrigleyville on
- 1:00Speaker 2: the bus and seeing all the all the Ohio State
- 1:02Speaker 2: red and everybody came in and there was really only
- 1:06Speaker 2: like one major section that I would say was a
- 1:08Speaker 2: Northwest Western section and then everything else was scarlet and gray.
- 1:12Speaker 2: I mean, so Ohio State always fills the stadium, whatever
- 1:16Speaker 2: stadium it may be in the Chicago land area, and
- 1:19Speaker 2: today was no different.
- 1:21Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. It was a loud crowd. You had
- 1:23Speaker 1: OHI going around the stadium. There was the Northwestern student
- 1:27Speaker 1: section was kind of behind the end zone on the
- 1:28Speaker 1: right side of the TV screen and the right field bleachers.
- 1:31Speaker 1: Everywhere else was majority Ohio State in probably ever, literally
- 1:35Speaker 1: every other section in the stadium and large majority Ohio State.
- 1:40Speaker 1: And it was large majority of Ohio State for the
- 1:42Speaker 1: last about three quarters of the game, maybe last two
- 1:45Speaker 1: thirds of the game. Northwestern, after a scoreless first quarter,
- 1:50Speaker 1: scores a touchdown. They're up seven to nothing. It was
- 1:54Speaker 1: it kind of played out a little raggedy at the
- 1:56Speaker 1: start of the game. Ohio State couldn't get off the field,
- 1:58Speaker 1: but Northwestern couldn't score, and Ohio State had a chance
- 2:01Speaker 1: to get on the board first with a long what
- 2:04Speaker 1: looked like touchdown pass two general Es Smith. It was
- 2:06Speaker 1: later overturned on replay, but it was seven to nothing. Northwestern,
- 2:12Speaker 1: and you kind of thought, well, Ohio State's probably still
- 2:16Speaker 1: gonna win this game, but it's probably gonna be a
- 2:18Speaker 1: really stupid sixty minute game. And then you just saw
- 2:21Speaker 1: an avalanche twenty one points in the first in the
- 2:24Speaker 1: final five minutes of the first half, and then another
- 2:27Speaker 1: touchdown in the first five minutes of the second half.
- 2:29Speaker 1: You know, we talk about the middle eight all the time,
- 2:30Speaker 1: and it wasn't. It was a little more than the
- 2:32Speaker 1: middle eight, but twenty eight points was just that's what
- 2:37Speaker 1: good teams do. They did. Ohio State did not play
- 2:40Speaker 1: it's a game for sixty minutes, but man, when they
- 2:43Speaker 1: had to turn it on, they turned it on and
- 2:45Speaker 1: it was over in a flash.
- 2:47Speaker 2: Ohio State it's not been a great first quarter team
- 2:50Speaker 2: this year. I mean, still has a huge scoring advantage
- 2:52Speaker 2: in the first quarter, but if you look by quarters,
- 2:55Speaker 2: the third quarters really their quarter. I want to really
- 2:57Speaker 2: ask Ryan Day what you knows maybe behind eyeing the
- 3:00Speaker 2: slow starts, but then they got it going. But you know,
- 3:03Speaker 2: to start the game, they were allowed four or five
- 3:06Speaker 2: third down conversions to Northwestern, and that you know, they
- 3:09Speaker 2: just couldn't get them off the field. But then when
- 3:11Speaker 2: Ohio State started to click. It really clicked, quinch on
- 3:14Speaker 2: Judkins with a couple of big runs, and then you
- 3:17Speaker 2: know it was Katie bar theador. I mean, Ohio State
- 3:19Speaker 2: just kind of was able to impose its will. And
- 3:22Speaker 2: on social media. It's social media, people were getting nervous
- 3:27Speaker 2: and concerned and everything else, and it's just like, just wait,
- 3:30Speaker 2: just wait, it's gonna be okay. But you know, everybody
- 3:33Speaker 2: was already trying to find comparisons from this to the
- 3:37Speaker 2: yet to be played Indiana game. And oh, if this
- 3:40Speaker 2: were Indiana, they'd be down twenty one nothing and lightning
- 3:43Speaker 2: bolts are coming out of Kurt Signetti's eyes.
- 3:46Speaker 3: I mean, now, well, you know you're just gonna have
- 3:48Speaker 3: to wait.
- 3:49Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, at that point, everyone had figured
- 3:51Speaker 1: out that not everyone on the field is going to
- 3:53Speaker 1: die because of the grass or the walls or whatever.
- 3:56Speaker 1: So everyone needed something new to worry about. So, okay,
- 3:58Speaker 1: there you go. You had some new to worry about.
- 4:00Speaker 1: And that turned out to also not be that big
- 4:02Speaker 1: of a concern. Yeah, if you play, if you play
- 4:05Speaker 1: your bad game against a good team, that's a bad thing.
- 4:08Speaker 1: I can safely say that is true. That has been
- 4:11Speaker 1: true for as long as I have been watching college
- 4:13Speaker 1: football and every other sport, So yeah, that's that's good.
- 4:17Speaker 1: I think the point is you probably didn't see Aisate
- 4:20Speaker 1: did not throw the kitchen sink at Northwestern by any means. Northwestern.
- 4:25Speaker 1: Northwestern kind of came out and threw the kitchen sink
- 4:27Speaker 1: at Ohio State a little bit on that opening drive,
- 4:29Speaker 1: and you saw some stuff even you know, even defensively.
- 4:32Speaker 1: Northwestern thrown some different fronts at Ohio State and that
- 4:35Speaker 1: kind of stuff. So you're gonna see teams just try
- 4:38Speaker 1: stuff against Ohio State because it's like, well, you know,
- 4:40Speaker 1: you're wildly outmatched, so what are you gonna do. You're
- 4:43Speaker 1: gonna do something. So okay, you're trying something. It didn't work,
- 4:46Speaker 1: but that's okay, what else are you gonna do?
- 4:49Speaker 2: I was gonna say, I was reading our analysts on
- 4:52Speaker 2: social media. I'm looking forward to the pieces that they'll
- 4:54Speaker 2: push this week about some of the adjustments that Ohio
- 4:56Speaker 2: State made and then found some success. Ohio State and
- 5:00Speaker 2: maybe not so much with the inside zone early on,
- 5:02Speaker 2: but then they started getting outside and that's when they
- 5:04Speaker 2: started picking up some big yardage. Quin Shawn Judkins, as
- 5:07Speaker 2: I said, I've had a couple of touchdowns, but had
- 5:09Speaker 2: some good long runs. Trevion Henderson, you guys were talking
- 5:12Speaker 2: about on the postgame show, I think between the two
- 5:14Speaker 2: of them in terms of total yardage because they had
- 5:17Speaker 2: some receptions, it was like you know in the one seventies.
- 5:19Speaker 2: I mean, they really were able to affect the game
- 5:22Speaker 2: at that point. Will Howard made some good decisions, probably
- 5:25Speaker 2: a couple of throws he'd like to have back. But
- 5:27Speaker 2: I mean, nobody's perfect. I mean, everybody expects perfection, but
- 5:32Speaker 2: you know, we're you don't see it in the NFL,
- 5:34Speaker 2: you don't see it in college. But Will Howard has
- 5:36Speaker 2: been doing more than a fine job for the Buckeyes
- 5:38Speaker 2: as they're sitting what nine and one right now?
- 5:40Speaker 1: Yeah, nine and one and really in pretty good control
- 5:44Speaker 1: of their own destiny at this point. If they win
- 5:46Speaker 1: the next two games, they're in the Big Ten Championship game.
- 5:48Speaker 1: With them within the Big Ten Championship game, they're the
- 5:51Speaker 1: Big Ten champions and they're gonna be the number one
- 5:53Speaker 1: or number two seed.
- 5:54Speaker 2: You would probably with the seed everybody in the SEC
- 5:57Speaker 2: is going to have rightly two losses.
- 5:59Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, you know, Texas did not look great
- 6:01Speaker 1: against Arkansas. Yeah, so, and Ohio State has a chance
- 6:06Speaker 1: to pick up a top five win against Indiana in
- 6:08Speaker 1: a week and then you could potentially beat the number
- 6:09Speaker 1: one team in the country in Indianapolis. And even if
- 6:11Speaker 1: you don't, if you beat the top five team in Indiana,
- 6:15Speaker 1: and then you have another close loss to Oregon, you're
- 6:17Speaker 1: the number five seed. And that's also a reasonable Yeah,
- 6:21Speaker 1: Ohio State is very much in a spot where unless
- 6:24Speaker 1: they do something real stupid, if they lose to Indiana
- 6:26Speaker 1: by thirty points, then then you've lost control of everything.
- 6:30Speaker 1: If Ohio State just handles its business the next two
- 6:32Speaker 1: weeks and plays a good representative game against Oregon, win
- 6:35Speaker 1: or lose, you got a pretty good path to the
- 6:37Speaker 1: national championship. Potentially. That's really all you can ask at
- 6:40Speaker 1: this time of year, really all you can ask in
- 6:42Speaker 1: terms of the overall performance. It felt the first quarter
- 6:46Speaker 1: of the game felt like Man, Northwestern was just kind
- 6:50Speaker 1: of controlling the game. They had one hundred and forty
- 6:52Speaker 1: one hundred and fifty yards total offense. It was like, boy,
- 6:54Speaker 1: they picked up a first a first down on a
- 6:57Speaker 1: third and thirteen by running the ball. Boy, they're running
- 6:59Speaker 1: the ball over all over a High State.
- 7:00Speaker 3: I had a ninety two yard touchdown drive. Yeah.
- 7:03Speaker 1: Yeah. And then and then you look at the final
- 7:05Speaker 1: the final stats, and Ohio State out that gained them
- 7:08Speaker 1: seven point four to three point eight yards per play. That's,
- 7:11Speaker 1: I mean, just about double the yards per play. Northwestern
- 7:14Speaker 1: finished with one point seven yards per rush. After it
- 7:18Speaker 1: felt like, oh man, Ohio State keeps giving up these
- 7:20Speaker 1: long rushes. Oh man, what they can't stop the run?
- 7:23Speaker 1: And then it's one point seven yards per rush.
- 7:25Speaker 3: It just the adjustments were made.
- 7:26Speaker 1: Yeah, it was. You had a couple of rough moments
- 7:30Speaker 1: early and then they sort of seize control, and then
- 7:32Speaker 1: the second half was exactly the boring second half you
- 7:35Speaker 1: were hoping it was. This was not a game where
- 7:37Speaker 1: o High State fans were hoping for a lot of
- 7:39Speaker 1: drama in the second half, and they really didn't get any.
- 7:41Speaker 1: It was just kind of okay, score to start the
- 7:44Speaker 1: third quarter, and then it's twenty eight to seven and
- 7:46Speaker 1: there's no way Northwestern scoring three more touchdowns, So okay,
- 7:48Speaker 1: you can start thinking about Indiana now, well.
- 7:50Speaker 2: I mean, I think the biggest drawing out of everybody's
- 7:52Speaker 2: going to talk about is Jeremiah Smith was dragged down
- 7:55Speaker 2: on what looked like, you know, a pretty questionable tackle
- 7:59Speaker 2: and a twist on the ankle there. We saw him
- 8:02Speaker 2: leaving after the game with ice on his left ankle
- 8:05Speaker 2: and a little bit of a limp. G Scott got
- 8:07Speaker 2: dinged up a little bit on a play. But you know,
- 8:10Speaker 2: I think Ohio State is relatively healthy going into Indiana week.
- 8:14Speaker 2: Indiana is coming off of an open week, So Northwestern
- 8:18Speaker 2: came off of an open week, had some things to
- 8:20Speaker 2: throw at Ohio State. And I think that's something else
- 8:22Speaker 2: that you have to remember, is you know, they had
- 8:25Speaker 2: an extra week to scheme some things up and that
- 8:26Speaker 2: worked against Ohio State. And Indiana may come out and
- 8:29Speaker 2: have a quick start against Ohio State as well. But
- 8:32Speaker 2: you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna take slow and steady
- 8:34Speaker 2: sometimes are there because we know what Ohio State's capable
- 8:37Speaker 2: of doing well.
- 8:37Speaker 1: And I think you got to look at the overall talent,
- 8:39Speaker 1: and you know, I don't I don't think there's anyone
- 8:41Speaker 1: who would say Indiana is a more talented team than
- 8:43Speaker 1: Ohio State. And I don't know that there's anyone that's
- 8:45Speaker 1: gonna say Indiana is as talented a team as Ohio State.
- 8:48Speaker 1: So yeah, Indiana has to get a little creative to
- 8:51Speaker 1: potentially set up, you know, an upside, and it certainly
- 8:54Speaker 1: they could pull off an upside, and we'll have plenty
- 8:56Speaker 1: of time to talk about that this week. But you know,
- 8:59Speaker 1: Ohio State is in exactly the spot you would short
- 9:03Speaker 1: of having one more field goal at Oregon, Ohio States
- 9:06Speaker 1: in about as good a position as you could be
- 9:07Speaker 1: in at this point of the year looking towards the
- 9:10Speaker 1: national championship. Did want to hit You talked about Jeremiah Smith,
- 9:13Speaker 1: which I wanted to talk about. We also wanted to
- 9:15Speaker 1: got to talk about Carnel Tate because this was this
- 9:17Speaker 1: was a very feel good story for Carnel Taate, Chicago
- 9:21Speaker 1: native history has been talked about a bunch. His mother
- 9:23Speaker 1: was killed about a year ago. This was his first
- 9:26Speaker 1: time coming back to Chicago to play since, you know,
- 9:29Speaker 1: since leaving, and man, he had a great day.
- 9:33Speaker 3: A couple of touchdowns.
- 9:35Speaker 2: They targeted him on a third that one didn't connect
- 9:38Speaker 2: at that point, but you had to feel really good
- 9:40Speaker 2: for him. I mean, he he left Chicago to go
- 9:43Speaker 2: to IMG Academy and Brandenton, Florida after his freshman year
- 9:45Speaker 2: of high school. But he is he is a Chicago kid,
- 9:48Speaker 2: that's where he's from. I mean they said before the
- 9:51Speaker 2: game that he had like twenty seven tickets, he said,
- 9:54Speaker 2: though he probably had thirty to forty people here in attendance.
- 9:57Speaker 2: His dad, his sister, his grandmother. He said, those three
- 10:00Speaker 2: were by far the most important. Everybody was important, but
- 10:02Speaker 2: they were by far the most important people.
- 10:05Speaker 3: I saw lots of hugs as.
- 10:07Speaker 2: People were walking out, and Carnell was waiting to come
- 10:09Speaker 2: up and talk to us at the podium. So just
- 10:11Speaker 2: a great story. One of those, you know, one of
- 10:13Speaker 2: those human interest stories that we all get so lost
- 10:16Speaker 2: in the x's and o's and what's going on there.
- 10:18Speaker 2: But you got to remember we're talking about you know,
- 10:20Speaker 2: we're talking about seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty twenty one year
- 10:23Speaker 2: old young.
- 10:23Speaker 3: Men, and you know.
- 10:25Speaker 2: He's he he's had some eventful times.
- 10:29Speaker 1: Yeah he has, but this was this was definitely a very,
- 10:31Speaker 1: very few good story for him. You have to be
- 10:33Speaker 1: happy for him. I have to be happy for the
- 10:35Speaker 1: whole Ohio State team. That's that was a good, solid win.
- 10:38Speaker 1: Far from perfect, but they didn't need perfect. They don't
- 10:41Speaker 1: need perfect next next week, but they probably need better
- 10:43Speaker 1: than this next week, but they had they did what
- 10:46Speaker 1: they needed to do the last couple of weeks where
- 10:48Speaker 1: you had teams that are lower on the big ten
- 10:50Speaker 1: standings and there was not a lot of second half drama.
- 10:53Speaker 1: You just kind of handled your business. You didn't you
- 10:56Speaker 1: didn't you know, blow all your your special secret you know,
- 11:00Speaker 1: the secret play to beat Indiana, the secret play to
- 11:02Speaker 1: beat Michigan. You didn't blow any of that stuff. It
- 11:04Speaker 1: just you out talented them handled it. It wasn't thrilling,
- 11:10Speaker 1: it wasn't oh boy, look a record setting day. It
- 11:12Speaker 1: was just efficient, effective onto the next one.
- 11:16Speaker 2: And your home and your home and you're not you're
- 11:18Speaker 2: not having a meeting in a batting cage. You're not
- 11:20Speaker 2: sitting there and having to go up and down fifty
- 11:23Speaker 2: stairs and everything else. I mean, you're you know the routines,
- 11:27Speaker 2: you know what's there that, you know what's on, you know,
- 11:29Speaker 2: you know what you need to do over the next
- 11:31Speaker 2: eight quarters of football. And Ohio State I think is already.
- 11:36Speaker 2: You know they have had a future bet on Indiana.
- 11:38Speaker 2: I think a ten and a half point favorite against Indiana.
- 11:40Speaker 2: I think almost a three touchdown favorite against Michigan. We
- 11:44Speaker 2: know that lines don't necessarily predict outcomes. Ohio State, I
- 11:48Speaker 2: think was a couple the couple point favorite. Oregan were
- 11:51Speaker 2: not able to win that game. But I think the
- 11:55Speaker 2: odds makers think that Ohio State is going to do
- 11:57Speaker 2: very well in the next two games.
- 11:58Speaker 1: Hey yeah, and they should in their back home And
- 12:00Speaker 1: I was gonna say this was the last true road
- 12:02Speaker 1: game they'll play, but this was. It was a true
- 12:05Speaker 1: road game in the fact that they had to get
- 12:06Speaker 1: on an airplane and go play in someone else's stadium,
- 12:09Speaker 1: But it was very much it was very much a
- 12:12Speaker 1: home game in a lot of ways. And then so
- 12:15Speaker 1: you've got two more home games, and then you potentially,
- 12:17Speaker 1: if they handle business to those two games home games,
- 12:19Speaker 1: you potentially have a neutral site game in Indianapolis. Well,
- 12:23Speaker 1: if they handle business, they will have a neutral site
- 12:24Speaker 1: game in Indianapolis. And then after that, it'll depend on
- 12:27Speaker 1: how they do in Indianapolis. So we will have we
- 12:30Speaker 1: will have a bunch more coverage of this game at
- 12:33Speaker 1: Buckeyheadle dot com. We also have a ton of coverage
- 12:36Speaker 1: of sort of the other stuff around the game. Like
- 12:38Speaker 1: the game itself was great, the other stuff around the
- 12:41Speaker 1: game was really fantastic. This was I talked to a
- 12:44Speaker 1: number of people who I knew who were here for
- 12:47Speaker 1: the game, and everyone I talked to said it was amazing,
- 12:52Speaker 1: had a great time. Really, you know, one of those
- 12:54Speaker 1: games you're gonna remember for a long long time. We
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- 13:01Speaker 1: dot com about the behind the scenes of the game
- 13:04Speaker 1: and going around the field and you know, how long
- 13:07Speaker 1: how far is the ivy stick out from the wall,
- 13:10Speaker 1: and what's it like inside the scoreboard, and what's it
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- 13:42Speaker 1: we always tell you. The games are only getting bigger
- 13:46Speaker 1: and better from here, only gonna get bigger and better
- 13:49Speaker 1: potentially for the rest of the season. I mean, you're
- 13:52Speaker 1: looking at Indiana next week is like a boy. If
- 13:54Speaker 1: you win this, you're probably going to the big time
- 13:57Speaker 1: championship game almost certainly.
- 13:58Speaker 3: Does Does Ohio State have three games? Seven games? Yeah,
- 14:01Speaker 3: we don't know.
- 14:01Speaker 1: Yeah, and then then you got Michigan, which I don't
- 14:04Speaker 1: probably don't explain that one to you, and then you
- 14:06Speaker 1: potentially have the Big Ten championship game, and then you've
- 14:09Speaker 1: got the College. It is going to just be an
- 14:11Speaker 1: escalating series of ever more important games moving forward for
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