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Cotton Bowl Countdown From Texas · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to buck Eyes tomorrow morning for Tuesday, December twenty sixth of them,
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  your host Tom Moore, the Cotton Bowl game against Missouri in three days.
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  The game against we should get in three hundred and forty days. If you're
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  watching on YouTube, you already know Tony Gerderman and I are in a hotel
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  room. That must mean we are on the road for the Cotton Bowl.
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  Tony, the trip down is already going way better than the trip to the
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  Peach Bowl did last year. Southwest Airlines successfully got me to the destination that
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  it set on my ticket this year. That was a fun change of pace.
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  And now we get to hit the ground running on Tuesday morning to cover
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  the buck Eyes and the Missouri Tigers. Yeah, Tuesday morning, we'll get
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  it started, and then three days of ramping up and then fourth day of
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  the game. So I always were of the best times of the year.
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  Now you just we just get to grind Tom on site, grind to worry
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  about anything else going on in the world. All Ohio State football all the
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  time. What could be better? And this is a little bit of a
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  condensed bowl week because it's not really a bowl week. It's like a bowl
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  three and a half days. Kind of that all starts on Tuesday morning.
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  We're going to be watching Ohio State practice. We're gonna be talking to the
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  Ohio State defense, several of the players in the Ohio State defense, and
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  then on Tuesday afternoon we will be watching the Missouri practice and then we'll be
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  talking to some Missouri players on offense. So we'll kind of get half of
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  the game sort of laid out on Tuesday, and we're back with the you
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  know, the opposite size. We'll watch the buck Eyes practice again on Wednesday
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  and talk to the ohios Sted offense and then the Missouri defense. So I
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  should have a pretty good grasp on things by the end of the day on
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  Wednesday. I think obviously the first thing people are going to be interested in
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  when we get to go see practice tomorrow morning for the Buckeyes is going to
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  be who's practicing, who's playing. What do we know right now in terms
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  of I mean right now officially no one has OpEd it out. Well.
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  I think the newest thing that has popped up is that now we are scheduled
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  to talk to Denzel Berke on Tuesday. We weren't previously, so now a
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  week ago when we got the schedule, we were told by Jerry Emmick,
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  don't read into anything in terms of who's going to start or who's in terms
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  of who's playing and who's talking, because we had a schedule of speakers at
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  that point and Denzel Burke was not on them, And then we weren't told
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  at some point if somebody opts back, you know, somebody opps in or
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  whatever that you want to talk to you, we'll get him on the on
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  the stage there for you. So I don't want to say this is definitely
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  you know, we've been on a plane, we've been in an uber,
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  and we're we're here at the hotel now. But this would seem to indicate
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  that Denzel Berg is opting into the game time. I think that's probably true.
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  I mean, he you know, the last indication we had I think
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  from him, didn't we talk to him during interviews a couple of weeks ago.
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  I think we did. Oh wait, yeah we did. Yeah,
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  I'm sorry, So I don't know why. I don't know why he wasn't
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  on that list. Yeah, maybe there was some waffling or that was almost
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  too what we talked him. Yeah, so yeah, he definitely opted in.
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  Yeah, yeah, start to show over. No, absolutely not.
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  The person he was replacing was Cody Simon, and Cody Simon is already said
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  he's going to be back for twenty twenty four. So this is not you
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  know that Cody Simon is opting out. So yeah, it's it's uh,
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  well, we'll have a better grasp on things on Tuesday morning. But the
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  rest of you know, as far as the rest of the team, I
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  I continue to hear that there are a number of guys who were sort of
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  up in the air, who are you know, serious contenders to return.
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  We talked about a bunch of those guys on the huddle board at bucket huddle
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  dot com. But you know, outside of Marvin Harrison, who feels like
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  I would completely get it, you know, obviously he's done, you know,
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  had quite a season and is in quite a good position to have a
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  nice time shaking Roger Goodell's hand in April or whatever they do the draft.
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  Now, outside of him, I'm not a expecting a whole lot of opt
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  outs. We did to show where we're sort of projecting in a cuple weekend,
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  I thought, oh no, certainly they'll have five or sick topouts.
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  I think maybe two. I mean, it just it doesn't It feels like
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  you're kind of just sort of crossing guys off the list. The more you
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  the more you hear about it, well, the later we go. Obviously,
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  everybody has made it to Dallas, but we're still waiting. I think
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  JT. Twey Molowhile being the second one for me waiting on him. Trevon
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  Henderson. We saw him practicing on at least in a high state Twitter photo
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  action shot if you will. So he's practicing, So that's a good sign.
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  I do recall a few years back Chris Olovey practicing and then opting out
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  of the Rose Bowl. So there is always there's all kinds of stuff like
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  that. You're like, well, I you don't what you have to read
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  into stuff because nobody's telling you anything at this point. Now, we will
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  talk to the offense on Wednesday, and maybe Brian Hartline will be the offense
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  coordinator that we talked to, maybe he will tell us who's going to opt
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  in. But Brian Day hasn't wanted to tell us any of that because he
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  wants to leave it up to the players. At some point, the players
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  have to tell us. The thing now is that you can't assume that.
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  You can't assume the opted, so you need a confirmation one way or the
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  other, and so we're waiting on that. I don't expect Marvin Harrison to
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  play, but if he is the only one that opts out, I won't
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  be shocked at this one. Yeah, it feels like you might get maybe
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  one more beyond him, but that's it. I'm very surprised at how few
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  guys, it feels like, are in that position. And that's probably good
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  news for twenty twenty four as well. We do not need to talk about
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  twenty twenty four yet, but it is. You know, this is a
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  weird time because you get guys who are just sort of in between. Because
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  I mean you with the last time we were down here for the Cotton Bowl,
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  the question was, well, Denzel Ward opt out, and you kept
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  hearing oh no, no, no, no, no, never, no,
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  no no no, and then he opted out. And then you know,
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  you mentioned the Chris Love I think at the Rose Bowl a couple of
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  years ago, where he's practicing, and you kept hearing, yeah, he's
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  not going to play, He's not going to play, and it was like,
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  well, why would he be practicing if he's not going to play and
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  he just wanted to go out and practice with his teammates all longer. It's
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  like, okay, all right, I guess that's okay. So yeah,
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  well we will be at practice on the Tuesday morning. How much time there
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  leave? Fifteen minutes and then we have a nice long window of time between
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  the practice viewing window and the interview window to turn a lot of photos and
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  videos and that kind of stuff. Well, also, probably I'm going to
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  guess we can do an editorial meeting on air. I'm going to guess we'll
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  do some kind of a line something or other from the stadium on Tuesday.
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  Kevin has been loaded on. Yeah, that's fine. Yeah, it's a
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  yeah, that's a I think it's too nothing that was that's sure. Not
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  sure his vote counts, but yeah, we will have we'll have full full
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  coverage of Ohio State's practice and interviews on Tuesday morning and then Missouri's practice and
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  interviews on Tuesday afternoon. What is like the one thing other than who's you
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  know, who's practicing and who's not practicing. What is the one thing you're
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  most interested in seeing during the Ohio State practice, and what is the one
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  thing you're most interested in seeing during the Missouri practice? Boy, obviously the
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  key is who's out there, but everybody's you know, we can't judge that
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  anymore because of the whole lot of thing. I think. I think we'll
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  all probably be watching a little bit of Devin Brown just to see how he
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  is acting and how his teammates are acting around him. Hopefully we get to
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  see more than just stretching and get to see some of the any kind of
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  action out there. I don't know how much quarterback play we'll get to See's
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  probably gon be some individual drills and things like that, but it is always
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  interesting just to watch how players are carrying themselves. And this is a new
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  new starter, now, new leader for Ohio State, so I'll be watching
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  him. Missouri. You know, they've got some injuries coming into this game,
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  but it's these are injuries that are there. They've had before this game,
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  so they're accustomed to that. And in terms of what I'll be watching
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  for them, will we be surprised by anything like when we got to watch
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  Georgia do yoga. Yeah, Well, that Kirby Smart last year did a
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  fantastic job trolling the media. He did two things. We got to watch
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  two days of Georgia practice, and the first day they did like this station
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  to station extremely high intensitything, and we were thinking, Wow, this is
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  crazy. This is totally different than any Ohio State football practice we've ever seen.
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  And then the Georgia beat writers like, yeah, it's totally different than
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  any Georgia practice. You know too, This was a completely new different thing.
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  And then the second day we got to watch the last fifteen minutes of
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  practice where they were doing yoga and doing like their cool down period and they
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  when we were on the bus on the way to the stadium, we kind
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  of looked around and that we're not most of the Georgia people there, and
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  it was like, what are we what do we not know? And then
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  we got to the the stadium and we found out. So you never know.
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  Yeah, Bowl practices they're like a box of chocolates. I did like
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  to want at the Rose Bowler when you were I would have been twenty eighteen
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  where Nick Bosta didn't was out that season, but he showed up. Yes,
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  you see everybody, and he showed up to practice and hunted a bunch
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  of people, and you never know who's going to show up, and sometimes
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  that your teammates, and sometimes it's true freshmen who are going to be enrolling
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  in January as well. Like we saw Jelanie Thurman at the Peach Bowl practice
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  last year, I think you might have seen I've been Alik Hartford. There
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  was someone else that we saw at at Peach Bowl practice last year. So
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  we'll probably see some true freshmen as well, some incoming true freshmen. So
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  we don't know what we're gonna see, but whatever we see, we will
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  let you know it at all about it on the Buckeye Weekly podcast. We'll
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  do a live stream at YouTube dot com slash Buckeye Huddle and of course on
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  the huddle board at puckehuddle dot com. We'll have lots of everything we see,
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  everything we know, we will let you know there should be should be
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  new coming on opt outs, opt ins, the new quarterback situation for the
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  Black Eyes, the plan for Missouri, all that kind of stuff coming this
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  week as we count down to the Cotton Bowl game now just three days away.
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  Seems impossible that we just got here and already in the game is just
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  three days away, But here we are so we are going to cram ten
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  pounds of content into a five pound bag over the next few days, so
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  make sure you're checking us out there at bucke huddle dot com and YouTube dot
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  com slash Buckeye Huddle. That will do it for today. Thank you guys
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  all for joining us. Have a great day. We will talk to you tomorrow