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Ohio State 28, Texas 14: The 8 Most Interesting Things We Learned · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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Speaker 1: Welcome to Buck Guys tomorrow morning for Sunday, January twelfth.
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Speaker 1: I'm your host, tom Or the National Championship game against
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Speaker 1: Notre Dame in eight days, the game he getspecially get
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Speaker 1: in three hundred and twenty one days. The Ohio State
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Speaker 1: Buck Guys back in Columbus now and starting their preparations
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Speaker 1: for the National Championship game against Notre Dame. I said
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Speaker 1: they'd give themselves twenty four hours to enjoy the enjoy
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Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl win over Texas. They are now on
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Speaker 1: the clock for the National Championship game against the Fighting Irish.
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Speaker 2: But before we turn our attention.
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Speaker 1: To that game, let's take one more look back at
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Speaker 1: the Cotton Bowl where debt with some of the postgame
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Speaker 1: press conference answers from Brian Day, Will Howard and Jack Sawyer.
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Speaker 2: We'll start with Brian Day and just his opening thoughts
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Speaker 2: on the game and what right for Ohio State.
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Speaker 3: Give coach Sark and his staff and team a lot
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Speaker 3: of credit. It's a very good team, a lot of
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Speaker 3: respect for the way he goes about, you know, his business,
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Speaker 3: and he's got an unboieable reputation and the coaching community
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Speaker 3: and his team played very, very hard today, and I
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Speaker 3: just I was a very well fought battle, and they're
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Speaker 3: a very good team, had a great season. You know,
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Speaker 3: it came down to the fourth quarter. And I believe
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Speaker 3: that the resilience that we've had to show throughout the
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Speaker 3: entire season and through some of these guys career has
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Speaker 3: led us to this opportunity to win this game and
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Speaker 3: go play for a national championship. And we talked before
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Speaker 3: the game about how how do you leave a legacy
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Speaker 3: is you know, to become your own legend, and there's
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Speaker 3: some guys on his team today that and I believe
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Speaker 3: will become legends in Ohio state history. And I mean
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Speaker 3: we also talked about how we want to keep this
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Speaker 3: team together. It's a great team. They've been through a lot,
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Speaker 3: they're resilient and they're great people. They do everything the
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Speaker 3: right way. And so now they get ten more days
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Speaker 3: together and an opportunity to tell their story if they
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Speaker 3: go win one more and so that's really exciting. But
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Speaker 3: going back on the game, you know, just gritty, tough.
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Speaker 3: We knew it was going to be that way, very
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Speaker 3: good opponent, and you know just the way that you know,
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Speaker 3: we were able to change the momentum in the game
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Speaker 3: in the fourth quarter, and and then balls all the
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Speaker 3: way down to the one yard line. We get a
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Speaker 3: stop there, get get you know, our pads down knock
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Speaker 3: it back and then they both they go to the
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Speaker 3: perimeter with it and really great play for a TfL
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Speaker 3: and then the third down stop. And then obviously what
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Speaker 3: happened on fourth down by Jack just symbolizes you know,
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Speaker 3: not only his career, but you know, our team in
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Speaker 3: general and who they are, and the toughness and just
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Speaker 3: the clutch play. Right there was something that I'm sure
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Speaker 3: whole city of Columbus explode and all Buckeye Nation during
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Speaker 3: that play.
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Speaker 1: There were a million big plays in that Cotton Bowl win,
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Speaker 1: and there were just about as many almost big plays
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Speaker 1: or plays that really set up the big plays in
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Speaker 1: that one. One of the big plays that we need
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Speaker 1: to talk about that I think is probably getting a
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Speaker 1: little bit overlooked is Will Howard's fourth down keeper picked
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Speaker 1: up like eighteen yards on that play that really set
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Speaker 1: up that final Higher State offensive touchdown debate at twenty
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Speaker 1: one to fourteen. Really could have been a touchdown run
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Speaker 1: if Will Howard didn't just barely get tripped up there.
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Speaker 2: Here were his thoughts on that play.
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Speaker 4: Uh, yeah, that that fourth down was huge, man, And
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Speaker 4: they came out and gave us a good look for
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Speaker 4: the play and oh Line blocked it up well, And yeah,
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Speaker 4: I fell on purpose.
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Speaker 5: I'm joking.
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Speaker 4: I didn't fall on purpose. We should have been out.
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Speaker 4: It should have been a dang touchdown, but I was
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Speaker 4: trying to keep a couple of seconds on the clock. No,
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Speaker 4: I'm joking, but yeah it was. It was a great
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Speaker 4: play and a statement drive. You know, we needed that.
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Speaker 4: We had been we'd been beating ourselves all day with
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Speaker 4: you know, penalties and and you know, just getting behind
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Speaker 4: the sticks. And that was a statement drive, man, and
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Speaker 4: O Line did a heck of a job on that drive.
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Speaker 4: And I think guy stepped up and made plays. And obviously,
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Speaker 4: you know what the defense did on the next drive,
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Speaker 4: you know, sealed it. But you know, they bailed us
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Speaker 4: out all game. And you know, I can't say enough
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Speaker 4: good things about this guy sitting next to me and
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Speaker 4: about our whole defense because they they they played their
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Speaker 4: tales off today.
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Speaker 2: All right, Next up Jack Sawyer, and I'll let you
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Speaker 2: play reporter. What do you think?
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Speaker 1: The first question for Jack Sawyer was about yes, you
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Speaker 1: are correct. It was the scoop and score touchdown that
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Speaker 1: really kind of sealed the win for Ohio State. Now,
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Speaker 1: the question was about to play, wasn't really where the
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Speaker 1: answer went.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, I mean coaches put us in great spots all
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Speaker 6: game long, and you know, like coach Day said, that's
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Speaker 6: a really good football team we just played. And hats
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Speaker 6: go off to them coach Sark and Quinn. They're a
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Speaker 6: great team and they'll be back here, I'm sure for
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Speaker 6: the next couple of years. And man, God is great.
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Speaker 1: You know.
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Speaker 6: He put me in a great position to make a
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Speaker 6: play and I was fortunate enough to do that. And
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Speaker 6: you know, the resiliency of this team, you know, from
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Speaker 6: a month ago and it's been incredible, and it's been
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Speaker 6: led by my guys, like these two men sitting next
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Speaker 6: to me, and the whole team embodies that role because
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Speaker 6: our leader is like that. You know, I've said it
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Speaker 6: a million times, but man, we sat up here last year,
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Speaker 6: you know what, the a sore taste in our mouth
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Speaker 6: and heard a lot of things, and you know, come
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Speaker 6: back and heard the same things a month ago, and
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Speaker 6: we kept swinging because this guy next to us, he
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Speaker 6: shows up every day to work and he loves each
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Speaker 6: and every one of us so much. And you know,
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Speaker 6: he's the most resilient guy I've ever been around. And
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Speaker 6: that's the reason why you see this team fight so
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Speaker 6: hard each and every week.
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Speaker 1: This is one of my favorite questions. Put yourself in
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Speaker 1: the shoes or in the helmet of the Ohio State
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Speaker 1: player Jack Sawyer. What were you thinking as you're running
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Speaker 1: down the sideline on the way to seal that way?
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Speaker 6: I guess it don't fall like will?
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Speaker 5: Did you know? No, I'm joking.
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Speaker 6: I'm kidding, but no, seriously, I hit about the hit
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Speaker 6: about the thirty and I look back, I'm like, I
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Speaker 6: hope I got some blockers. I'm running out of steam
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Speaker 6: here and they were running with me side by side,
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Speaker 6: and man, it's just that just speaks volumes to who
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Speaker 6: this team is too. You know, we always have each
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Speaker 6: other's back, and it was it was a special moment.
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Speaker 6: I love Columbus, I love the state of Ohio, and
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Speaker 6: I love Ohio State football. And man, like I said
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Speaker 6: a million times after the game, God is great and
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Speaker 6: He's put this team and such a great spot and
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Speaker 6: I'm just so fortunate to be playing the nation championship
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Speaker 6: the last year.
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Speaker 1: Hear one really surprising part of the game was the
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Speaker 1: fact that Jeremiah Smith had just one catch for three yards.
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Speaker 1: So Will Howard's asked, what did Texas do to take
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Speaker 1: away Jeremiah Smith? And how big was it that guys
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Speaker 1: like Carnell Tate, Mecca ouca Gee, Scott Quinshawn Judkins, and
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Speaker 1: Trevan Henderson all stepped up in that receiving game.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, we knew that they were they were gonna be
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Speaker 4: key in him. You know, obviously the first two rounds
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Speaker 4: of the playoffs, I mean, he went off, so you know,
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Speaker 4: we knew that they were going to do something to
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Speaker 4: try and take him away, and they were, you know,
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Speaker 4: they they clouded him, they doubled him, they were finding
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Speaker 4: different ways to you know, to get two guys over
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Speaker 4: over top of him. But you know, all that means
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Speaker 4: is that, you know, we need to be smart and
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Speaker 4: and get the ball to other guys. And you know,
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Speaker 4: I think Carnell's stepped up, made some great plays. You know,
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Speaker 4: the running backs did it, did a great job. Tight
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Speaker 4: ends had some great catches, and you know, I think Texas,
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Speaker 4: you know what they do on defense, they'd like to
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Speaker 4: keep a shell on things, make you work the game
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Speaker 4: and and and get the ball down the field methodically,
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Speaker 4: you know, and and I think they you know, credit
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Speaker 4: to them, man, they got a great defense, and they
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Speaker 4: got some dudes, you know, But when it came down
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Speaker 4: to it in the fourth quarter, man, we did what
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Speaker 4: we had to do, and the defense did a hell
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Speaker 4: of a job.
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Speaker 1: Jack Sayer grew up in Pickerington, Ohio, just outside of Columbus,
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Speaker 1: a huge Ohio State fan growing up. So what is
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Speaker 1: it like for him to deliver one of the most
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Speaker 1: iconic plays in Ohio State football history.
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Speaker 6: I'm just so thankful to be able to play for,
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Speaker 6: you know, this coach and this team each and every week,
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Speaker 6: and you know, we get ten more days with each other.
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Speaker 6: And that's what means to most of me is we're
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Speaker 6: going to competing for a national championship now, which is
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Speaker 6: something I've always dreamed of of bringing back to Columbus
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Speaker 6: since i was a little kid, you know, throwing the
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Speaker 6: football in the backyard of my dad with an Ohio
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Speaker 6: State jersey on. So you know, I'm just really looking
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Speaker 6: forward to that. And I was fortunate to, you know,
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Speaker 6: make a big time playing like a lot of guys
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Speaker 6: didn't like this guy did all night long, you know,
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Speaker 6: responding from adversity throughout the game too. And this guy,
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Speaker 6: you know, this guy right here sitting next to me
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Speaker 6: is such a good leader for this team and he
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Speaker 6: makes he runs the show on offense. And I'm just
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Speaker 6: so proud of the way he played and offense played
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Speaker 6: and battled through adversity all game long and all year long.
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Speaker 6: So we got we got a good challenge of Notre Dame.
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Speaker 6: He was a great team and that's why I'm most
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Speaker 6: most looking forward to.
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Speaker 1: Jack Sawyer and Quinn you weers shared a connection even
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Speaker 1: before that big play that swung the Cotton Bowl. They
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Speaker 1: were actually roommates at Ohio State back in twenty twenty one.
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Speaker 1: Saw them hugging on the field after the game. What
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Speaker 1: did Jack Sawyer say to Quinn Yours after the game?
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Speaker 6: Yeah, man, he just you know, I just said, you know,
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Speaker 6: great season. You know, he's a he's a good guy.
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Speaker 6: He's a great dude. And you know, he was my
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Speaker 6: roommate here and uh, he's had a lot of success
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Speaker 6: and he's a great person, you know, and I just
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Speaker 6: told him, you know, keep your head up. You played
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Speaker 6: a great game, and you got a great future head
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Speaker 6: of you, and uh, you know, stay in touch sometime soon.
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Speaker 6: And uh, you know South the Texas, you know, like
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Speaker 6: me and Will have said, and Coach Day say, they're
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Speaker 6: a great team and great great group of coaches around
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Speaker 6: on that staff, and uh, you know, they punched us
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Speaker 6: hard a few times and it was a battle all
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Speaker 6: the way to the fourth quart like we knew it would.
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Speaker 1: Next step you can probably pick out some of the
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Speaker 1: questions here that came from local reporters, Texas reporters and
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Speaker 1: not Ohio State reporters.
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Speaker 2: Ryan Day was asked a.
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Speaker 1: Question about how they bounced back from the Michigan game.
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Speaker 1: Exciting new ground to tread, for sure, but his answer
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Speaker 1: here went a bunch of really other interesting places.
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Speaker 3: Well, I think when you look at the guys that
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Speaker 3: we have in our program, you see guys who are tough,
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Speaker 3: You see guys who are resilient, and you see guys
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Speaker 3: that care about each other, you see guys that love
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Speaker 3: being Buckeyes. You're seeing two of them right here. Both
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Speaker 3: guys here have two different stories. One just got here.
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Speaker 3: But when I see him get around our team, when
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Speaker 3: I saw him on stage tonight, when I saw him
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Speaker 3: embracing everybody in the locker room, Like, this guy loves
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Speaker 3: his teammates. He's only been here, but in such a
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Speaker 3: short period of time, he's made such an amazing impact
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Speaker 3: on our team.
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Speaker 5: He's made an impact on me.
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Speaker 3: Like there's times where like I'm coming to work and
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Speaker 3: you know, who knows, maybe I'm down, maybe I'm stressed,
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Speaker 3: maybe I'm whatever, And this guy he picks me up.
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Speaker 3: He has an amazing approach on life. And I told
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Speaker 3: his parents that, like they've done a great job with him,
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Speaker 3: but he's also done of himself, like the positive mindset
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Speaker 3: that he has. And we lost Seth McLoughlin in practice,
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Speaker 3: and it was a really tough loss for us. Seth
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Speaker 3: was doing a great job and he and Seth had
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Speaker 3: a great relationship. And that practice Will showed me some
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Speaker 3: of the best leadership E ever seen and resilience. And
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Speaker 3: then the guy over there, I don't know if there's
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Speaker 3: I mean, sure, you know we can argue about I'm
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Speaker 3: sure who loves being a Buckeye more. But this is
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Speaker 3: somebody who grew up in Columbus, who has always wanted
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Speaker 3: to be a Buck, guy who's always wanted for a
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Speaker 3: moment like this, So to see him get the moment
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Speaker 3: that he had today, I mean, and he's become like
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Speaker 3: family to me, he has to me and my wife
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Speaker 3: and my kids, and and so this is just two guys,
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Speaker 3: a Mecca Book, A Traveon Henderson, Cody Simon. I mean,
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Speaker 3: I could go through Lathan Ransom, I mean, Donovan Jackson. Like,
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Speaker 3: the story of this team is yet to be told,
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Speaker 3: and no great accomplishments are ever achieved without going through adversity.
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Speaker 3: That's just the truth. And so we've gone through our
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Speaker 3: share of adversity, and that's life. And I've told those
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Speaker 3: guys that. So we're not focused on what, you know,
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Speaker 3: what's coming down the road. We're not focused about focused
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Speaker 3: on what happened in the past. We're focused on right
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Speaker 3: now and being right where we are. And then at
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Speaker 3: the end, you know, we want to be able to
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Speaker 3: tell the story of this team, and that's really what
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Speaker 3: this team's focused on right now.
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Speaker 1: Ran Day was also asked what it means to see
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Speaker 1: someone like Jackson who grew up a Buckeye fan and
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Speaker 1: who has had to come overcomes some adversity to end
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Speaker 1: up doing what he did. In the closing minutes of
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Speaker 1: the Gotten.
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Speaker 3: It couldn't be prouder, couldn't be prouder of you know,
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Speaker 3: I just love stories of guys who go through difficult times,
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Speaker 3: stay loyal, defend the people they love the most, and
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Speaker 3: then come out the back end.
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Speaker 5: I mean, I just love that in life.
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Speaker 3: That's why you know Maury's clarettes with us in this
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Speaker 3: around the program now, Like I just I love guys
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Speaker 3: who go through difficult times, stay strong, defend who they
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Speaker 3: love and then come out the back end.
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Speaker 5: And you got one right there with this guy right here.
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Speaker 3: This guy was never stronger than when we need him
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Speaker 3: the most during difficult times. And we've been through difficult
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Speaker 3: times together. That's that's how you know, how do you
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Speaker 3: know about someone's character when you go through tough times
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Speaker 3: with them? Everything's easy. When things are going well, everyone
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Speaker 3: can be a front runner. And so you know, I
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Speaker 3: think we talk about those things because you know, our
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Speaker 3: story has been, you know, the last couple of years
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Speaker 3: has been you know, ups and downs. But to see
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Speaker 3: the team play the way that they did in the
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Speaker 3: fourth quarter day, I think that that's why that's relevant.
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Speaker 3: That's why we're talking about it because I don't think
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Speaker 3: going through well, going through those things, we would have
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Speaker 3: come through the way we did in the fourth quarter.
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Speaker 3: And now we have an opportunity to play for a
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Speaker 3: national championship. And I couldn't be proud of our guys,
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Speaker 3: couldn't be. But we got to finish this thing. And
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Speaker 3: they know it. They know it because there's so many
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Speaker 3: great stories to be told.
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Speaker 1: One of the sort of side storylines going into this
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Speaker 1: game was that Will Howard, as Kansas State's quarterback, had
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Speaker 1: never beaten Texas in close, put together one of his
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Speaker 1: best efforts in his career in twenty twenty four, twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty three, but didn't end up pulling it off. So
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Speaker 1: what did it mean for Will Howard to finally beat
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Speaker 1: the Longhorns?
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Speaker 4: That was, you know, a motivation for me. But man,
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Speaker 4: that didn't that didn't mean as much, you know, as
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Speaker 4: as getting this keeping this team together, and that's all
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Speaker 4: we wanted to do, man, And we talked about that
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Speaker 4: this whole playoffs is we're fighting for another chance to
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Speaker 4: wear this jersey again and to be with this group again.
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Speaker 4: And the thing that you know that hurts me about this,
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Speaker 4: the only thing that I wish I could go back
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Speaker 4: and do different about my time here is I wish
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Speaker 4: I had more time, you know, I wish I had
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Speaker 4: more time with Coach Day. I mean, I've gotten so
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Speaker 4: much better because of him, and because of Coach Kelly,
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Speaker 4: and because of Billion and just being here I've gotten,
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Speaker 4: you know, to be so close with guys like Jack
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Speaker 4: and guys like a Mecca and guys like you know,
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Speaker 4: Seth and all these guys that you know, I only
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Speaker 4: have one year with them, you know, I just I
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Speaker 4: wish that I got another, you know, got a chance
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Speaker 4: to be with these guys longer. And we're trying to
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Speaker 4: draw this thing out as long as we can. And
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Speaker 4: here we are, man, but the job's not finished, and
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Speaker 4: we got to go out there and finish this thing,
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Speaker 4: you know, and it feels great, feels great to beat
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Speaker 4: those guys, especially you know, this year. They had a
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Speaker 4: great team, and all the respect in the world for
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Speaker 4: Sark and Quinn and all those guys. They have a
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Speaker 4: great defense. But man, we job's not finished and they
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Speaker 4: were standing in our way today.
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Speaker 1: Another play earlier in the game could very well have
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Speaker 1: gone down as one of the most iconic in Ohio
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Speaker 1: state history, and then it just sort of got lost
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Speaker 1: with all the stuff that happened after it, But that
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Speaker 1: screen passed right before halftime. Texas just scored with twenty
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Speaker 1: nine seconds left in the half to tie the game.
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Speaker 1: You thought kind of thought, oh boy, this this might
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Speaker 1: be a rough second half for the Buckeyes. And then
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Speaker 1: one play seventy five yards, Ravan Henderson goes the distance.
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Speaker 1: Will Howard and Ryan Day were asked about that play.
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Speaker 4: I don't think anyone thought that that was going for
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Speaker 4: seventy five yards. I mean, that was, you know, trying
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Speaker 4: to set something up. See see, you know, that's a
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Speaker 4: that's kind of a drive starter in that two minute scenario,
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Speaker 4: you know, and and you run that first play, and
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Speaker 4: we did it in the Tennessee game where we come out,
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Speaker 4: we run the ball, and you know, if you get
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Speaker 4: a positive game, then maybe, you know, we can continue
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Speaker 4: to work our two minute drill. But you know, when
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Speaker 4: you got a guy like thirty two that can can
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Speaker 4: make plays like that, I mean, you know, Carson Henson
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Speaker 4: made some unbelievable blocks down the field. The receivers, you know,
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Speaker 4: stayed on their guys and and thirty two took off
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Speaker 4: man and that was that was a huge play for us,
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Speaker 4: a huge swing. You know, we have talk about winning
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Speaker 4: the middle eight all the time, and that was that
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Speaker 4: was big.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, I agree with Will.
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Speaker 3: I mean that was that was a huge swing, you
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Speaker 3: know moment in the game that in Jack's play. Really
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Speaker 3: we're two big moments. I thought the drive that the
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Speaker 3: offense had there when you know there was there was
16:07
Speaker 3: some momentum swings, and we talk about it a lot.
16:10
Speaker 3: When you have momentum, you got to keep it. When
16:11
Speaker 3: you don't, you got to go get it. I felt
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Speaker 3: like we turned that momentum with that long drive. I
16:15
Speaker 3: don't know if it was sixteen plays, but it was.
16:17
Speaker 3: It was a bunch of plays, the one that finished
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Speaker 3: with Quinn John's one yard run and then you know,
16:21
Speaker 3: they kind of went down the field. We took a
16:23
Speaker 3: stand there at the one and then Jack's return was huge.
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Speaker 3: But the screen were we were laughing a little bit
16:28
Speaker 3: in the locker room, having some fun with it because
16:30
Speaker 3: we do screen drill and I think sometimes, you know,
16:32
Speaker 3: these guys are like, we ever got to call a screen.
16:34
Speaker 3: And I actually said to the coaches, I said, we're
16:35
Speaker 3: gonna stop doing screen drill because we don't call any
16:37
Speaker 3: dang screens. And so sure enough, what do you want
16:40
Speaker 3: to run? You want to you know, run the ball,
16:42
Speaker 3: You want to take a knee? I said, no, just
16:43
Speaker 3: run the screen. They're all right, you sure, sure enough?
16:46
Speaker 3: It went the whole distance, went for it goes seventy five.
16:48
Speaker 3: First play. But Travion has become a three down back.
16:53
Speaker 3: Travion is going to be a tremendous pro because not
16:56
Speaker 3: only does he do a good job running the football,
16:59
Speaker 3: but he protects at highlight and he's a threat with
17:01
Speaker 3: the ball in his hands as a receiver, and that
17:04
Speaker 3: becomes a huge threat, especially when they're looking to take
17:07
Speaker 3: away some of our receivers, you know, in particular Jeremiah,
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Speaker 3: So you know, hats off to him.
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Speaker 5: But what very well executed.
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Speaker 3: The line got out there and he made a great
17:16
Speaker 3: play because they brought a pressure and he just got
17:17
Speaker 3: it off and Trayvon went down and catch it.
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Speaker 5: I mean, another huge play in the game, ye know.
17:22
Speaker 1: And finally Brian Day and Will Howard here again. This
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Speaker 1: is about that last touchdown drive to take a twenty
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Speaker 1: one to fourteen.
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Speaker 2: League Just like the last one. Texas had just tied
17:31
Speaker 2: the game.
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Speaker 1: Buckeys had their backs against the wall there, They're starting
17:35
Speaker 1: from their own twelve yard line and what do they do?
17:37
Speaker 1: Thirteen plays eighty eight yards chewed up more than half
17:41
Speaker 1: of the fourth quarter. What was the mood like for
17:43
Speaker 1: the offense as they headed back out on the field
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Speaker 1: for that drive.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll just start by saying, I felt like we
17:50
Speaker 3: were stopping ourselves on offense with the penalties, you know,
17:53
Speaker 3: And I think that that was the conversation that was
17:56
Speaker 3: being had on the sideline and the locker room at halftime.
17:58
Speaker 3: We got to stop hurting ours with these penalties, you know,
18:02
Speaker 3: because that was frustrating.
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Speaker 5: And I felt like we had a good rhythm.
18:05
Speaker 3: We were making some nice plays, executing you know, okay,
18:10
Speaker 3: you know, good enough, but then when you get some
18:12
Speaker 3: of these penalties, and they were big penalties, holding fifteen
18:14
Speaker 3: yarders and that was really getting us, you know, behind
18:18
Speaker 3: the sticks. So we knew we just had to buckle down.
18:21
Speaker 3: And like Will said, you know, they were kind of
18:24
Speaker 3: keeping it in front. When you do that, you got
18:25
Speaker 3: to execute and move the ball all the way down
18:27
Speaker 3: the field. And now that I'm looking at it was
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Speaker 3: thirteen plays eighty eight yards and took seven forty five
18:32
Speaker 3: off the clock. At that moment, I was I was
18:35
Speaker 3: getting a little concerned that the defense was getting worn
18:37
Speaker 3: out because we were not on the field very much
18:40
Speaker 3: and we needed a big, long drive. And that's what
18:42
Speaker 3: these guys answered with. And obviously Will was the leader
18:45
Speaker 3: in the huddle.
18:47
Speaker 4: Yeah, I second all that. I mean, that was a statement, drive, man,
18:51
Speaker 4: And like he said, we'd been beating ourselves. We just
18:54
Speaker 4: knew that we had to you know, work the game
18:57
Speaker 4: and just continue to just swing and and take shots.
19:01
Speaker 4: And you know, body blows, man, it wasn't it wasn't
19:04
Speaker 4: pretty at all times. You know, is taking some checkdowns,
19:07
Speaker 4: you know, a fourth and two, you know it. It
19:11
Speaker 4: took a lot, you know, thirteen plays, eighty eight eighty
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Speaker 4: eight yards. That's you know, we talked about before the game,
19:15
Speaker 4: we're gonna have to work this game, and we're gonna
19:17
Speaker 4: have to you know, methodically move the ball down the field.
19:20
Speaker 4: And I'm just so proud of our offense that that
19:23
Speaker 4: we were able to, you know, get the game. And
19:26
Speaker 4: we talk about all the time, get the game to
19:27
Speaker 4: the fourth quarter, man, and that's that's where we'll win it.
19:29
Speaker 4: And and we lean back on our training and all
19:31
Speaker 4: that work that we put in. Man, that's that's for
19:33
Speaker 4: that time, and you know, I'm just I'm just so
19:36
Speaker 4: proud of our guys.
19:37
Speaker 2: Man.
19:37
Speaker 4: The O line played great on that drive. You know,
19:39
Speaker 4: guys made some plays and and uh, you know, we
19:42
Speaker 4: were able to were able to punch it in. So
19:44
Speaker 4: that was that was great.
19:45
Speaker 3: And and like Will said, the third down, I forget
19:48
Speaker 3: what the down and distance was, but we you know,
19:49
Speaker 3: we said to him, if we can get this thing
19:51
Speaker 3: to a fourth and manage, but we're going to go
19:52
Speaker 3: for it. And he got it the fourth and two
19:53
Speaker 3: big play and those like the little things that you know,
19:56
Speaker 3: as an experienced guy, you understand, you know, in that moment,
20:00
Speaker 3: and that was huge. And then having the ability to
20:02
Speaker 3: do with his feed on fourth and two, you know,
20:04
Speaker 3: we went back and forth and fair we got to
20:05
Speaker 3: call this one or not and we got you got
20:07
Speaker 3: us into the right call, and then the offensive line
20:09
Speaker 3: did a great job rocking off the ball and so
20:11
Speaker 3: that was a huge play in the game as well.
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20:24
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20:30
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20:33
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20:36
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