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Ohio State vs. Michigan: 5 Storylines That Will Decide The Game · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyees tomorrow morning for Saturday, November twenty ninth.
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  Speaker 1: I'm your host, Tom Or the game against Michigan just
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  Speaker 1: I don't know intense absolutely. I'm Tom Moore, jon By
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  Speaker 1: Tourney Gerderman here right in front of Michigan Stadium in
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  Speaker 1: inn Arbor, Michigan, Tony. This title of this show is
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  Speaker 1: going to be something like the five storylons that are
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  Speaker 1: going to define the game between Ohio State and Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: I feel like storyline number one that we need to
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  Speaker 1: talk about as trains are going by. We got a
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  Speaker 1: real Buckeye Weekly Vibe potentially developing here. But storyline number one,
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  Speaker 1: as I'm looking at this game, feels like, how does
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  Speaker 1: Michigan score against this Ohio State defense? Because no one
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  Speaker 1: has put up more then sixteen points against Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: all season long. Michigan, if they are going to win
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  Speaker 1: this game. It's either a gonna have to be a
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  Speaker 1: rock fight or B they're going to have to do
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  Speaker 1: something that no one else has been able to do
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  Speaker 1: this year.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and one of those things maybe getting some cheap points,
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  Speaker 2: which has also been difficult to do, whether it's a
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  Speaker 2: quick turnaround from a turnover or any kind of big
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  Speaker 2: explosive play where the defense gets caught lacking.
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  Speaker 3: We haven't really seen that since Ohio.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe where you learn the styles got to be on
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  Speaker 2: one and when you've got to go back to the
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  Speaker 2: non conference schedule to talk about the last time something happened,
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  Speaker 2: then you know you've got a pretty good defense.
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  Speaker 3: And it's a defense that.
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  Speaker 2: Has been locked in all season long, very focused, has
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  Speaker 2: not bought a play action or double pass or flea flicker.
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  Speaker 2: They've been really, really disciplined.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, Michigan is a team that we see. It feels
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  Speaker 1: like at least once a game, run a reverse, run
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  Speaker 1: a reverse into a flea flicker, run a flea flicker.
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  Speaker 1: They are that's almost a base play for them. It
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  Speaker 1: feels like I think we've seen that maybe ten times
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  Speaker 1: this year. Ohio State has been, as you said, very disciplined.
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  Speaker 1: Against those. So then if that stuff doesn't work and
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  Speaker 1: you're sort of struggling in you know, we'll see how
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  Speaker 1: they can run the ball because we'll get to storyline
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  Speaker 1: number three. It will be sort of how things shape
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  Speaker 1: up in the trenches. But I think storyline two to
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  Speaker 1: me is you got two young quarterbacks in their first
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  Speaker 1: years as starters. Julian Saying is a right shirt freshman.
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  Speaker 1: Bryce Underwood is a true freshman. I look at Bryce
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  Speaker 1: Underwood and we've seen him do incredible stuff and we
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  Speaker 1: have seen him look like the freshmanist freshman we've seen.
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  Speaker 1: It just kind of depends on the day. It depends
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  Speaker 1: on the snap. What does Matt Patricia have cooked up
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  Speaker 1: for Bryce Underwood?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's going to be interesting. That's to me.
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  Speaker 2: The key to this whole game is Bryce Underwood handling
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  Speaker 2: pre snap, post snap, everything that Matt.
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  Speaker 3: Patricia's defense is going to do.
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  Speaker 2: From watching Caleb Downs, you know, cover twenty twenty yards
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  Speaker 2: in the span of one drop back, you know.
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  Speaker 3: What's he doing there?
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  Speaker 2: He goes over there, The ability to just be more
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  Speaker 2: mature than a two freshmen, avoid those mistakes that we've
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  Speaker 2: seen him make, and just not get caught up in
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  Speaker 2: all of this as well.
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  Speaker 3: I know we've seen him have his ups and downs.
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  Speaker 2: He's been inconsistent at times, he's been bad at times,
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  Speaker 2: he's been really really good at times. It's just hard
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  Speaker 2: to expect his best game against the best defense he's faced.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it feels like we talk every time we mention
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  Speaker 1: a true freshman quarterback. We say, a true freshman quarterback
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  Speaker 1: is gonna lose you a game, It's gonna happen. There
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  Speaker 1: have been a couple of games that I've thought, this
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  Speaker 1: is the game that Bryce owner Underwood's going to.
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  Speaker 4: Lose them, and it hasn't happened.
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  Speaker 1: If Perdue game was like that, the Northwestern game was
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  Speaker 1: like that, and it hasn't happened. The games that they've
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  Speaker 1: lost have not really been on Bryce Underwood. Those have
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  Speaker 1: been kind of whole team losses.
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  Speaker 4: Is this the game? Are we wrong?
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  Speaker 1: That can't be it. We can't be wrong about something
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  Speaker 1: above football.
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  Speaker 2: Well, if this isn't the game and the Bowl game
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  Speaker 2: isn't the game, we'll just say, well there was Oklahoma
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  Speaker 2: was that was the one? Because you know, it's been
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  Speaker 2: a long time since that game. He's he's an older player,
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  Speaker 2: but at times he's the same player as well, which
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  Speaker 2: is a bit of commitment concerning if you're in Michigan
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  Speaker 2: to where he's still making some of the same freshman
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  Speaker 2: mistakes that he made at the start of the season.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait to see that whole battle between Patricia
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  Speaker 2: versus Underwood, because I there's just it's hard to expect
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  Speaker 2: that Bryce Underwood has the advantage in that in that matchup.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, this is Matttress's first time against Michigan and
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  Speaker 2: all that. And I don't know where this whole place
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  Speaker 2: is in your storylines. Yeah, that are coming up, but
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  Speaker 2: I think it is one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think that that that certainly is one, and
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  Speaker 1: that may be sort of surprised bonus storyline six. Somewhere
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  Speaker 1: I can hear earl Bert Bruce yelling at me that
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  Speaker 1: we've already done two things. We haven't talked about the trenches.
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  Speaker 1: Somewhere bow is yelling at me that we are not
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  Speaker 1: have not got talked about the trenches, So we got
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  Speaker 1: we got to talk about the trenches.
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  Speaker 3: Without the bleeps, without the first one.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, yes, this is Ohio State Michigan. The game is
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  Speaker 1: won in the trenches every year. If you win the
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  Speaker 1: line of scrimmage on both sides of the ball, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna win the game. Michigan has won the line of
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  Speaker 1: scrimmage on one side of the ball both sides of
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  Speaker 1: the ball somewhat consistently over the last four meetings. This year,
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  Speaker 1: they don't have quite the interior the defensive line they
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  Speaker 1: have had in recent years. The offensive line has had
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  Speaker 1: some injuries, is relatively young, three red shirt freshmen starting
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  Speaker 1: for them. Can Michigan win the line of scrimmage on
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  Speaker 1: both sides of the ball, and if not, can they
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  Speaker 1: win this game?
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  Speaker 3: Well?
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  Speaker 2: I think actually has the advantage on both sides with
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  Speaker 2: the high of State defensive line against Michigan's offensive line,
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  Speaker 2: and of course the Ohio State's offensive line against Michigan's
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  Speaker 2: defensive line, which is not as good, it's still quality,
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  Speaker 2: not as good as it was last year. So you
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  Speaker 2: look at it, it's like, well, if whydoer State has
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  Speaker 2: the advantage on both both of this part piece of
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  Speaker 2: the both pieces of the line of scrimmage, Then to
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  Speaker 2: answer your question, I don't know how they do.
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  Speaker 3: But again, last year was a complete you.
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  Speaker 2: Know that throws out all of the analysis that you
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  Speaker 2: can possibly do. But yeah, I like the high stand
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  Speaker 2: on both sides of the line of scrimmage. Can they win?
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  Speaker 2: You know, can Michigan win without that general you would
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  Speaker 2: say no, that's always no, no, no. But I think
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  Speaker 2: people are a little gun shy right now in terms
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  Speaker 2: of what is possible.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I think maybe this is we're going to
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  Speaker 1: sort of skip ahead and this one doesn't really count
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  Speaker 1: on the list, but the last four years that feels
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  Speaker 1: like it's kind of a storyline because I think I
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  Speaker 1: look at this game and I look at the line
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  Speaker 1: of scrimmage, I look at something we'll get to with
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio State passing game and how that might match
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  Speaker 1: up with the Michigan secondary, and there's a lot that
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  Speaker 1: I look at and I go, boy, there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: to like for Ohio State. And if this was if
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  Speaker 1: you had helmets that looked different and uniforms that were
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  Speaker 1: different colors and a stadium that was in a different city,
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  Speaker 1: I think Ohio State fans would be coming in this
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  Speaker 1: game going, yeah, they should be fine. They should win
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  Speaker 1: by a couple of touchdowns. It should be fine. You know,
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  Speaker 1: it might be close into the second half, but they'll
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  Speaker 1: pull away, no problem. There's some history in the building
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  Speaker 1: behind me here. It has not always been great history
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  Speaker 1: for Ohio State, and it feels like that is sort
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  Speaker 1: of like secret subplot, you know, six of this game.
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  Speaker 3: Not so secret.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, and if it wasn't Michigan, it would be very
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  Speaker 2: similar to the Washington trip to the Illinois trip, where
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  Speaker 2: it don't be careful. This could be a trap game,
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  Speaker 2: a trap game very much now nine and two. Trap
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  Speaker 2: game is a little bit. You should see it says
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  Speaker 2: trap right on the game.
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  Speaker 4: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, it's that part is impossible to ignore. And
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  Speaker 2: that is why Ryan day is tried to make sure
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  Speaker 2: people as team understands this is just one game.
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  Speaker 3: We are not playing five games to.
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  Speaker 2: Try to make up for the other four losses, of
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  Speaker 2: which again two mischigives put on probation for cheating for
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  Speaker 2: two of those, you know, and three of those seasons.
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  Speaker 2: But they all still they all still count right now
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  Speaker 2: and we'll continue to count. So they they are all
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  Speaker 2: one big block that you can't overcome in one game.
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  Speaker 2: You can only win this game, and actually you can
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  Speaker 2: only win Friday. You can only win Saturday. Like you
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  Speaker 2: gotta win each day. And so that's the focus, and
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  Speaker 2: you can't let it get too big.
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  Speaker 1: But also you already know it is right, Yeah, this
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  Speaker 1: is this is not a game that you ever are
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  Speaker 1: going to have anyone overlooking. The question is don't let
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  Speaker 1: it get too big, as you said. And I think
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  Speaker 1: what sort of helps is the fact that Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: knows if they win this game, they got another game
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  Speaker 1: next weekend in Indianapolis, and that one is you know,
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  Speaker 1: they have three stated team goals every single year.
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  Speaker 4: One win this game that's.
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  Speaker 1: Going to happen in this stadium on Saturday. Number two,
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  Speaker 1: win the game that's going to happen in Indianapolis next
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  Speaker 1: week if they hand goal number one and then hit
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  Speaker 1: goal number three. Now, last year they sort of skipped
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  Speaker 1: the first two and just did a speed run on
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  Speaker 1: goal number three, won a game in Atlanta and.
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  Speaker 4: Got to have a crystal football.
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  Speaker 1: They this is a game they haven't won since twenty nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: which is crazy because it was for years and years
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  Speaker 1: and years before that, almost almost a generation before that,
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  Speaker 1: it was sort of taken as a given that Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State would just win this game. I'm going to tell you,
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  Speaker 1: walking out of here in twenty nineteen, I didn't think, well,
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  Speaker 1: when we walk back here in six years, there's going
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  Speaker 1: to be not only will Ohio State not win, there
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  Speaker 1: will be a year that they don't play. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you'll never guess why. I mean, there's a lot has
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  Speaker 1: changed since the Year of Our Lord twenty nineteen. One
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  Speaker 1: thing that has not changed since that time is Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State has pretty good wide receivers. That was true back
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  Speaker 1: then with chrysal Lave and Garrett Wilson. It is true
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  Speaker 1: this year too. Storyline four. In this game, Jeremiah Smith
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  Speaker 1: Cardell tates will they play, how much will they play?
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  Speaker 1: How well will they play? How well will Julian say
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  Speaker 1: and be able to get them the ball? That that
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  Speaker 1: feels like that may be the single biggest determinant in
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  Speaker 1: terms of does Ohio State. You know, we talked about
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  Speaker 1: Michigan struggling to get to twenty. If those guys play well,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State gets to twenty, probably somewhat comfortably. If they don't,
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  Speaker 1: then it's much more of an open question to me.
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  Speaker 2: You know, as we're out here right now outside of
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  Speaker 2: the stadium with about the game time highs, not much sun.
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  Speaker 2: There should be maybe maybe some sun tomorrow.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm wondering if Julian Sane is wearing
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  Speaker 3: gloves for the game thrown.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, and so he won't be wearing gloves.
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  Speaker 1: He's gonna have He's gonna have the little pouch thing
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  Speaker 1: you'll and warmers in there, gloves.
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  Speaker 2: But he will have if he is, he's gonna have
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  Speaker 2: been practicing with it all week. It's not something new,
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  Speaker 2: but I assume Jeremiah Smith said he's going to be
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  Speaker 2: going is barring anything unforeseen. And then we all expect
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  Speaker 2: cardell Ta to be back as well. I think we do, Yeah, Tom,
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  Speaker 2: I think we expect.
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  Speaker 4: I expect him to play, Yes, and I.
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  Speaker 2: Expect them to be able to play well enough to
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  Speaker 2: handle what is put in front of them.
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  Speaker 3: Now, what is put in front of them or behind them,
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  Speaker 3: it's buy a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Of his own coverage that they're gonna have to just
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  Speaker 2: you know, matriculate down the field, as Hankstram would say.
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  Speaker 2: And Ohio State is patient enough to do that, but
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  Speaker 2: they also have to protect well enough to do that
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  Speaker 2: to avoid any third longs, even though they're pretty good
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  Speaker 2: at third lungs too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they if Julian Saying has time, you figure Julian
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  Speaker 1: Saying will have a receiver to throw to will we
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  Speaker 1: have time you know some of those that this kind
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  Speaker 1: of goes back to the trenches. The matchup with the
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  Speaker 1: tackles for Ohio State. Austin Servil that has been really good.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think he's allowed to sack all season. Philip
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  Speaker 1: Daniels has been pretty good, but not as good. You've
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  Speaker 1: got jasehon Barhaim, Derek Morrill off the edges there. That's
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  Speaker 1: going to be I think one of the maybe the
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  Speaker 1: single biggest matchup to watch when Ohio State has the ball.
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  Speaker 2: If Ohio State is clean there, I think they win
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  Speaker 2: by multiple scores, multiple touchdowns.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Part of that is also the Michigan secondary where we've
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  Speaker 1: talked a bunch about that. Zeke Berry, Jay R. Hill,
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  Speaker 1: the corners from Michigan. Okay, but gettable it has, it
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  Speaker 1: has and teams have not always been able to capitalize
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  Speaker 1: on opportunities there. This is gonna be the best wide
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  Speaker 1: receivers those guys have faced, and they have. They have
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  Speaker 1: gotten got a couple of times this season and probably
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  Speaker 1: had more opportunities there that opposing teams didn't cash up.
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  Speaker 1: Cash in on if you get someone behind them, Julian
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  Speaker 1: say and has to get the ball there guy has
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  Speaker 1: to get to make the play. But it feels like
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  Speaker 1: there are opportunities there for Ohio State in the past game.
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  Speaker 2: And it will be interesting to see how crisp Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State is at the outset. If Carnalte and Jeremiah sniff
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  Speaker 2: the Bok point, do they need a quarter or two
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  Speaker 2: to get back into the groove of game action. Sure,
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  Speaker 2: maybe they've been practicing a little bit, but this is
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  Speaker 2: this is different. So does it take them a little
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  Speaker 2: bit of time or do they just come out firing
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  Speaker 2: and then it's like, well, I guess, I guess it's
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  Speaker 2: on now. I guess the real higher state is shown up.
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  Speaker 2: But giving him time against that secondary because as we
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  Speaker 2: keep saying, we have not seen this secondary against Jeremiah
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  Speaker 2: Smith the carnal tape, but we've.
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  Speaker 3: Seen them getting beat deep.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, and even when they're playing zone and trying not
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  Speaker 2: to show it and try not to let it happen.
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  Speaker 2: You and Ross talked about Denzel Boston getting behind them
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  Speaker 2: in the Washington game, like there are things that you
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  Speaker 2: can do that they'll draw up to attack this zone
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  Speaker 2: because I do think they want to take some deep
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  Speaker 2: shots because they know that's where Michigan is at its weakest.
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  Speaker 1: Well, and I think if Ohio State can get out
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  Speaker 1: to a lad Ohio State two years in a row
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  Speaker 1: has had a turnover that turned into early points from
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  Speaker 1: Michigan in the first half and early touchdowns for Michigan
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  Speaker 1: in the first half. I think both of them were
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  Speaker 1: drives of less than ten yards. So if Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: can just avoid digging an enormous hole to start the game,
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  Speaker 1: and then maybe you get you know, two thousand and four,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State comes into Ohio Stadium really kind of reeling,
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  Speaker 1: and that opening possession, you get that long shot down
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  Speaker 1: to Tony Anthony Gonzales, a touchdown that completely changed the game.
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  Speaker 4: If Ohio State comes out.
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  Speaker 1: And can get an early score in this game and
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  Speaker 1: put Michigan in a seven nothing hole, Michigan wants to
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  Speaker 1: run the ball. Michigan can't. You know, if Michigan's down
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  Speaker 1: multiple scores and Michigan really is probably up against it,
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  Speaker 1: and again knowing that it's not going to be very
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  Speaker 1: easy for Michigan to score, and you know, if Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State gets up a couple scores and Michigan's going to
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  Speaker 1: be capped out at seventeen ish points twenty points like
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  Speaker 1: that narrows their pass to victory quite a bit. Last thing,
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about the weather because and we
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  Speaker 1: should probably mention special teams too, but we'll talk about
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  Speaker 1: that in a minute.
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  Speaker 4: Big storyline here is the weather. And the weather.
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  Speaker 1: You know this is it's ann Arbor, it's November. You
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  Speaker 1: get the race, guys that you have come to no
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  Speaker 1: one expect from the Ohio State Michigan game, but this
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  Speaker 1: is also not The forecast has sort of gradually improved
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  Speaker 1: over the course of the week in terms of what
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State would want. It's windy today, it's not supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be particularly windy on Saturday. It's not warm, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not ten degrees and it's also notably right now
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  Speaker 1: not snowing, not raining, not anything. And the forecast seems
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  Speaker 1: for Saturday seems to have gradually improved, where yeah, there's
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  Speaker 1: snow in the forecast, but now it's more of a
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  Speaker 1: concern for the drive home than it is for drives
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  Speaker 1: for the offense.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, Like I know, there's this thing time where Ohio
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  Speaker 2: State fans don't like it when their team is called soft,
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  Speaker 2: but Ohio State fans are always concerned about the weather,
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  Speaker 2: maybe because they think their team is soft. I don't
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  Speaker 2: you know, it's like, well, snow, oh, no, snow. And
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  Speaker 2: you know two years ago, four years ago, four years
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  Speaker 2: ago now, they threw for three hundred and ninety four
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  Speaker 2: yards in the snow with CJ. Stroud and it's like, well,
• 15:47
  Speaker 2: they can't move the ball in snow.
• 15:48
  Speaker 3: No, they can move it.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it's just they couldn't stop it back then. And
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: that's that's a whole different reason and different defense. But
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: we saw what Ohio State can do in the cold
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: year against Tennessee, right and this won't be nearly as
• 16:03
  Speaker 2: cold and wins right now five to ten miles per hour,
• 16:06
  Speaker 2: which is every game. Yes, yeah, that's what you're going
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: to see for every game. That is fine and you
• 16:11
  Speaker 2: never notice. So I think it may be just a
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: no weather game other than the fact that it's.
• 16:16
  Speaker 3: A little chili.
• 16:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, as long as you don't have a lot of wind,
• 16:20
  Speaker 1: the passing game and it's not raining, the passing game
• 16:23
  Speaker 1: should be presumably fine. A little bit of snow here
• 16:26
  Speaker 1: and there is going to be much more aesthetic than
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: it will be impactful. Probably, So all right, we're gonna do.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: I started this by saying five storylines, and now we're
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: about seven and a half, so let's sure, what the heck,
• 16:37
  Speaker 1: let's talk a little bit about special teams as well.
• 16:40
  Speaker 1: Ohio State comes in. Jaden Fielding has been pretty solid
• 16:43
  Speaker 1: throughout the year. Dominic Evada for Michigan has been surprisingly inconsistent,
• 16:48
  Speaker 1: which you know, going into the going into the season
• 16:50
  Speaker 1: after last season, you would have said dominic Evada, mister automatic.
• 16:54
  Speaker 1: Jaden Fielding boy a little inconsistent. Jaden Fielding obviously was
• 16:57
  Speaker 1: banged up a little bit last year, which obviously impacted
• 17:00
  Speaker 1: him a little bit. With how Dominic Zavada has kicked
• 17:03
  Speaker 1: this year, I keep thinking, I wonder if we're going
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: to hear about some kind of postseason something or other
• 17:09
  Speaker 1: injury situation with him. He just he has not looked
• 17:11
  Speaker 1: the same and in a game that is. But you know,
• 17:15
  Speaker 1: if it does come down to a seventeen thirteen, twenty
• 17:18
  Speaker 1: to seventeen kind of game, boy, you got to make
• 17:21
  Speaker 1: your field goals, Zavada. If you're asking me who's going
• 17:25
  Speaker 1: to hit a sixty yarder, I'm gonna say Dominic Savada.
• 17:27
  Speaker 1: If there's a thirty five yarder right now, Jaden field
• 17:32
  Speaker 1: think it has been more consistent there he has been, and.
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: You've seen Zavada this year has missed seven field goals
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: coming into the season two years as a starter prior
• 17:40
  Speaker 2: as miss sixth total was twenty one of twenty two
• 17:43
  Speaker 2: last year alone and maybe one of Luke Grose. I
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: think he did maybe, I think so certainly deserved it.
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: And this year it's just it's been very very odd.
• 17:52
  Speaker 2: And he'll miss left. He's I must say, he will
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: miss he has missed left, he has missed right. And
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: what you what you generally won't see that I was
• 18:00
  Speaker 2: missing short because he does have a very big leg
• 18:02
  Speaker 2: fielding and we saw the forty nine and forty nine
• 18:05
  Speaker 2: yard are a couple of weeks ago. The confidence is growing.
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: But again, once you get in here like this, this
• 18:12
  Speaker 2: game is different than any other in terms of once
• 18:15
  Speaker 2: you enter the stadium, you feel the difference. Whichever stadium
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: it is, you know this is more than a game.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's something that Searan Moore talked about a
• 18:25
  Speaker 1: bunch in his Monday press conference, just how different like
• 18:28
  Speaker 1: this game is different. And Caleb Downs has played in
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: the Alabama aubur and Iron Bowl, which is generally considered
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: you know in that top handful of rivalries, and it's
• 18:37
  Speaker 1: you know, this is different than that. It is a
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: game that is unlike any are There's a game that
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: we literally count down to all year long on this show,
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: and it is finally here. We will be you give
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: you a quick rundown of what to expect on Saturday.
• 18:51
  Speaker 1: Then we'll give you a quick look around. Since people
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: seem to enjoy that and one of the shows earlier
• 18:54
  Speaker 1: in the week, give a quick look around here when
• 18:56
  Speaker 1: we're done, but just give you a little sense of
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: what to expect. We will have our life Free Game
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Show probably nine thirty nine forty ish. Just go ahead
• 19:04
  Speaker 1: and open that up. Well, we'll tweet out the link,
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: but you can find it also on a YouTube channel
• 19:08
  Speaker 1: YouTube dot com slash bucke hud. I'll try and get
• 19:11
  Speaker 1: you some behind the scenes content as well. On Saturday
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: morning from inside Michigan Stadium. We will get to get
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: in there about nine or so, so you know, we'll
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: not have the super early access that we sometimes do
• 19:22
  Speaker 1: in other places, but get you some coverage there inside
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: the stadium, have our live free game show. Then we'll
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: have our live postgame show as well. I suspect there
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: will be some things to talk about one way or another,
• 19:33
  Speaker 1: and after that we will see we will see who
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: is headed to Indianapolis to take on potentially the Indiana
• 19:39
  Speaker 1: Hoosiers if they handle business on Friday night.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: Again, there will be a lot to talk about. So
• 19:43
  Speaker 4: there you go.
• 19:43
  Speaker 1: That's what to expect. Make sure you hit the thumbs
• 19:45
  Speaker 1: up on this video. Make sure you check out the
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: Buckeye Weekly podcast feed. Make you check your check out
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: the Buckeyes Tomorrow Morning podcast feed. We have dumped a
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: ton of content this week. If you're thinking how am
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: I ever going to find? You know, how am I
• 19:56
  Speaker 1: ever going to get to game game time to kick
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: off time? Great news. We probably at this point you
• 20:02
  Speaker 1: probably have enough content to just listen straight through from
• 20:06
  Speaker 1: now until kickoff, So you can find that all on
• 20:08
  Speaker 1: those two podcast feed and of course at YouTube dot
• 20:10
  Speaker 1: com slash Bucky Huddle.
• 20:11
  Speaker 4: That'll do it for today. Thank you guys all for
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk to you tomorrow.