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2026 Big Ten Football Schedule: Date Set For Ohio State vs. Indiana · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Wednesday, January twenty first
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  Speaker 1: time your host Tom or the ball State game in
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and twenty seven days, the game against Michigan
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  Speaker 1: All right, I could probably add if I had done
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  Speaker 1: the math before I started, and I didn't, I could
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  Speaker 1: tell you how many days it is till the Indiana game.
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  Speaker 1: Found out a couple interesting pieces of information from the
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  Speaker 1: Big Ten on Tuesday about the twenty twenty six Big
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  Speaker 1: Ten Conference football schedule, bringing in Tony Gerderman of Buckeye
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  Speaker 1: Huddle dot com to talk about that. Tony, we know
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  Speaker 1: one piece of the schedule and that is probably one
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  Speaker 1: of the single biggest games on the Big Ten schedule,
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  Speaker 1: the Ohio State Buckeyes and are you ready for a phrase,
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  Speaker 1: the defending national champion Indiana Hoosier. We know when they
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  Speaker 1: will be facing off in Bloomington, this fall.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that game will be October seventeenth, and that will
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  Speaker 2: be a tough ticket to get for anybody. But as
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  Speaker 2: the Indiana Who's your fans have shown you over the
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  Speaker 2: past month, they are willing to do whatever it takes
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  Speaker 2: to get wherever they need to be to watch a
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  Speaker 2: big game and time. I think this will probably be
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  Speaker 2: the first time since about nineteen eighty eight or eighty
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  Speaker 2: seven that Ohio State fans will be outnumbered at Memorial
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  Speaker 2: Stadium for an Indiana Ohio State game.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's been funny to watch people talk about the
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  Speaker 1: fact that they were you know, they were Indiana fans,
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  Speaker 1: and they were there for every game years and years
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  Speaker 1: and years, and they've been any huge Indiana football fans forever.
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  Speaker 1: And I was there in the press conference in two
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  Speaker 1: thousand and three with Jerry Gnardo, the then Indiana head
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  Speaker 1: football coach, where he talked like openly, like joking about
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  Speaker 1: the fact that it was stadium picture day when Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State was visiting there, because that was the only time
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  Speaker 1: the stadium was full of red. And you know, to
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  Speaker 1: Indiana football's fans credits, they have gotten on the bandwagon
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  Speaker 1: pretty quickly. With Kurt Signetty. This is not just something
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  Speaker 1: they discovered in the last month or so. But yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it is going to be a very very different environment
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  Speaker 1: in Bloomington for that game on October seventeenth than it
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  Speaker 1: was when we were there for the season opener against
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  Speaker 1: Indiana in twenty twenty three that was twenty three to
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  Speaker 1: three in Ohio State could shuffle two quarterbacks through because well,
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  Speaker 1: who cares, it's just Indiana. Obviously they're going to win
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  Speaker 1: this game by however much they want to win it by.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, a very different vibe there for sure. So
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  Speaker 1: that's October seventeenth, Tony. I think we will probably do
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  Speaker 1: a show in the coming weeks once we have an
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  Speaker 1: actual firm final schedule, and we'll talk in a minute
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  Speaker 1: about when we're going to find that out. But I
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  Speaker 1: think we have a decent sense for a kickoff time
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  Speaker 1: already on that Ohio State Indiana game.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would go ahead and put this down for
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  Speaker 2: a big Nune kickoff. Fox gets the what the first
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  Speaker 2: two picks of the season, and we know the first
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  Speaker 2: pick is always Ohio State Michigan. This has to be
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  Speaker 2: the second pick when you look at the rest of
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  Speaker 2: the schedule, Ohio State's at Texas, so that won't be
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  Speaker 2: part of the Fox schedule. Michigan has Oklahoma at home.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know that that's you know, that gets to
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  Speaker 2: that point just yet. Oregon is an at Ohio State,
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  Speaker 2: and organ is also at Michigan. I don't know that
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  Speaker 2: they necessarily want to pit put Oregon at noon if
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  Speaker 2: they don't have to. So this one just I mean,
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  Speaker 2: it's the last two national champions. What there's there's a
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  Speaker 2: better argument to make that it's number one rather than
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  Speaker 2: number three in terms of picks for the networks this year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you know, the Ohio State Michigan game is always,
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  Speaker 1: always always number one, and the way they pick it,
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  Speaker 1: we should just refresh people's memory on this real quickly.
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  Speaker 1: The way they pick is not they're picking a game,
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  Speaker 1: but the networks pick a week in which to have
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  Speaker 1: the first pick. So it's not that Fox is picking
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State Michigan. It's at Ohio. Fox is picking week
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  Speaker 1: I guess it'll be thirteen because there's only one by
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  Speaker 1: week this upcoming year. So Fox is picking week number
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  Speaker 1: thirteen to have the first pick, and then they will
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  Speaker 1: pick week number nine or whatever this is eight to
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  Speaker 1: have the first pick for you know, their second first pick,
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  Speaker 1: and then it goes on to CBS and NBC. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I mean you mentioned the Oregon game at Ohio State,
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  Speaker 1: in the Oregon game at Michigan, those will probably be
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  Speaker 1: three and four. I'm guessing you might. You know, the
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State game at USC that's probably going to be
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  Speaker 1: a big one. But that unless Fox has a primetime
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  Speaker 1: slot or can shuffle some stuff around, that's not going
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  Speaker 1: to be a Fox one because they're not going to
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  Speaker 1: have a nine am local kick So anyway, well, we'll
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  Speaker 1: get into all that stuff later, don't you worry. There's
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  Speaker 1: a long offseason to go through all of that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: But we also know in addition to the one kickoff
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  Speaker 1: date date for Ohio State and probably the time, we
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  Speaker 1: also know when we're going to find out the rest
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  Speaker 1: of the dates around college around the Big Ten schedule
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  Speaker 1: this fall. And you know, this time last year we
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  Speaker 1: found out and what like early to mid December, and
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  Speaker 1: this year they kind of kept kicking the fall back
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  Speaker 1: and kicking the can down the road. But we finally
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  Speaker 1: do know when they're going to reveal the rest of
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  Speaker 1: that schedule.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Big Ten will release it January twenty seventh,
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  Speaker 2: five thirty pm on Big ten Network. And it's fitting
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  Speaker 2: that they're waiting until the season is over so that
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  Speaker 2: this can be its own thing, rather than just dropping
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  Speaker 2: on a Tuesday morning in the middle of the postseason
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  Speaker 2: while things are going on, or you know, they're still
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  Speaker 2: signing day coming up or whatever. It's like, no, do
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  Speaker 2: what the NFL does, do what the SEC does. Making
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  Speaker 2: its own thing, get everybody looking forward to it, tell
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  Speaker 2: you that it's going to be. When it's coming, you
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  Speaker 2: can start to get excited about it. People start talking
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  Speaker 2: about it. You might see podcasts and shows about it.
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  Speaker 2: Who knows things like that, and it just builds and
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  Speaker 2: builds and people look forward to it. And so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: January twenty seventh, five thirty pm, Get Home, Kickback and
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  Speaker 2: put it on Big ten Network or tom Maybe we
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  Speaker 2: should just live stream the announcement. I don't know if
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  Speaker 2: we're going to do that, but certainly get excited. Get
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  Speaker 2: you get finally going to know when you got to
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  Speaker 2: get your hotels, When do you got to get the babysitters,
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  Speaker 2: all that good stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I have a feeling you will see a podcast
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  Speaker 1: from us, whether live or instant reaction shortly after that.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever it is, you will see that from us relatively
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  Speaker 1: soon after, if not during that announcement next Tuesday. But
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  Speaker 1: we do know pieces, bits and pieces of the Ohio
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  Speaker 1: State schedule for this season already. We know they are
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  Speaker 1: opening on Saturday, September fifth against Ball State. That is
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  Speaker 1: at home. Saturday September twelfth, They're at Texas Saturday September nineteenth,
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  Speaker 1: they play Kent State. That's weeks one through three this
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  Speaker 1: upcoming season. After that, it's a little bit uncertain. We
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  Speaker 1: know Indiana, of course on October seventeenth, that's a road game.
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  Speaker 1: Here's the rest of Ohio State schedule. And as we
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  Speaker 1: were at a group text with us other folks on
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  Speaker 1: the beat, and it's like, boy, there are not a
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  Speaker 1: lot of close or convenient road games for Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: fans this season. We know at Indiana of course, talked
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  Speaker 1: about that earlier, at Iowa, at Nebraska, at USC, so
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  Speaker 1: those are all going to be at least eight hours away.
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  Speaker 1: Nebraska is about a thirteen hour drive. USC even for US,
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  Speaker 1: USC is a flight. The home games is upcoming season Illinois, Maryland, Michigan.
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  Speaker 1: We know when that one's going to be and Northwestern
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  Speaker 1: and Oregon. So yeah, it's going to be I mean,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, I know, I know you don't want
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  Speaker 1: to project anything because there's still a lot of pieces
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  Speaker 1: that are pieces and parts that are moving around and
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  Speaker 1: guys who are moving and no one is the time
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  Speaker 1: to really really take in all of the changes and
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  Speaker 1: update their rosters and of all those kind of things
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  Speaker 1: with the guys on all these different teams. But man,
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  Speaker 1: you look at that schedule and it's at USC and
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  Speaker 1: Oregon at home, and Michigan at home, Illinois at home,
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  Speaker 1: and at Nebraska and at Iowa, at Indiana, at Texas,
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  Speaker 1: and it's like, man, it's early. It is. It is
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  Speaker 1: way too early to make any kind of firm and
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  Speaker 1: final declaration on this, but man, that is a challenging
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  Speaker 1: schedule potentially for Ohio State this fall.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you look at that schedule and I'm thinking of
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  Speaker 2: Brian Day might want to go to Tony Petiti and say, look,
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  Speaker 2: the twenty fourteen playoff isn't going to happen because the
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  Speaker 2: SEC is not going to allow it, but can we
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  Speaker 2: maybe get to the sixteen team? Can you can you
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  Speaker 2: maybe agree to that this year because that's where a
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  Speaker 2: sixteen team. You could see a three loss team getting
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  Speaker 2: in there, and maybe not in the twelve team. And
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  Speaker 2: you know, looking at that schedule, you can find three
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  Speaker 2: losses on it if you want to look hard enough.
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  Speaker 2: And so yeah, it's very challenging and both road and home.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, we'll see what Indiana is Ohio state
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  Speaker 2: as we know, one to oh in their last one
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  Speaker 2: games against defending nationals, you know, or one and what
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  Speaker 2: one in one one against just one? I'm sorry. The
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  Speaker 2: Michigan game was the twenty four game. They lost that
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  Speaker 2: on to one against defending national champs. So I'll have
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  Speaker 2: to move their record to five hundred this next year.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you have the twenty twenty three national champion Michigan Wolverines,
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  Speaker 1: the Buckeyes obviously won in twenty twenty four. You got
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  Speaker 1: the twenty twenty five national champion Indiana Hoosiers. And boy,
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  Speaker 1: you could tell me Indiana wins this upcoming year, or
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  Speaker 1: Oregon wins this upcoming year, or maybe even USC wins
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  Speaker 1: this upcoming year. They could potentially have the twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six national champion on that schedule as well, or they
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  Speaker 1: could be the twenty twenty six national champion there is
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  Speaker 1: a lot still to come, a lot still to sort out,
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  Speaker 1: and we're gonna be sorting it all out for you
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  Speaker 1: all off season long at bucke Huddle dot com and
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  Speaker 1: at YouTube dot com slash Bucke Huddle. We're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: a load of content this week as we sort of
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  Speaker 1: wrap up where things stand for the Buckeyes after the
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  Speaker 1: close of the transfer portal, sort of start to sort
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  Speaker 1: out that schedule as well, probably start taking looks at
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  Speaker 1: some point, I don't know when, but we will find
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  Speaker 1: some time to take a look at where these where
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  Speaker 1: these guys have all landed and try and give you
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  Speaker 1: a better sense for what to expect from some of
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  Speaker 1: those teams on the Buckeye's upcoming schedule. That'll all be
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  Speaker 1: coming up in the coming weeks and months at Buckey
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  Speaker 1: Huddle dot com and YouTube dot com slash Buckeye Huddle.
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  Speaker 1: That'll do it for today. Thank you guys all for
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  Speaker 1: joining us. Have a great day. We'll talk to you