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Ohio State vs. Purdue Preview: Can The Buckeye Rushing Offense Have A Breakout Day? · Buckeyes TomOrrow Morning

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  Welcome to Buckeyes tomorrow morning for Saturday, October fourteenth. I'm your host,
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  tom Or. The perdue game is today, the game against Michigan in forty
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  two days. Boy boy, six weeks away from today? Is that is
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  coming way too soon? College football, We're already met halfway through the regular
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  season. Buckeyes will play game number three in the Big Ten schedule, playing
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  at Purdue today, joined by Kevin Noon. Ifpucke huddle dot com will be
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  at that game kicks off at noon on Peacock, So get your streaming services
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  ready if you want to watch that one. Let's I guess start with the
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  forecast. Kevin shout rain showers in the afternoon, early afternoon, temperatures in
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  the fifties, wins like ten miles an hour. It sounds like it might.
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  You know, this is not going to be a chamber of commerce day,
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  But it doesn't sound like the kind of game you know, wather that's
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  going to materially impact this game. No, it's not going to be like
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  twenty eighteen where it's said on the book. I mean it was thirty seven
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  degrees, it was rainy, and it's had wind. I think it's seventeen,
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  but it was thirty and forty mile an hour. Gus, It's not
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  going to be maybe the cleanest track, especially playing on grass when you kind
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  of wonder about drainage and things of that type. But anybody who's saying that
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  it's going to be hugely impactful, I think maybe overstating things a little bit.
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  We'll see what ends up happening. Really didn't look like at any point
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  it was ever higher than fifty percent at any given hour in the hour by
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  hour. But we also know not necessarily to trust the weather forecast as you
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  can look at a radar screen see nothing, Look outside and it's raining,
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  so you know it is what it is weather, madam. I right,
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  yes, So let's talk about other folks that you have been doing their job
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  in a sort of hit and miss kind of way at times this year.
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  The offense O High State offensive line, Buck, guys, this is not
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  a great Purdue defense in terms of the run. They have consistently given up
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  four and a half five give up six yards to carry, six point two
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  yards per carry almost to Syracuse this year. This feels like Ohio State expecting
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  Trevian Henderson to be back this week. This feels like this could be a
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  at least some kind of a get right game for the Ohio State offensive line
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  in terms of establishing the run, moving the ball consistently on the ground.
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  Is this you know, I don't know if that means that the problem is
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  solved if they're running for five and a half yards of carry against Perdue,
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  but I think it would be a concern if they are at three point eight
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  yards of carrier or something like that against this team today. Right Purdue's giving
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  up one hundred and fifty three point eight yards per game, eighty fifth in
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  the nation. But on the other side, Purdue has eighteen sacks and thirty
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  nine TFLs. I think it is a defense. It is the least productive
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  defense to have those types of numbers. But Ryan Walters is a defensive minded
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  coach. He was the DC at Illinois before getting the head coaching job at
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  Purdue. He does some unique things, has some looks out there, has
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  a deep single high safety. We'll even try to confuse you as the ball
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  is snapped I mean, which I mean, there's no pre rotation or anything
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  like that. So there will be you know, there will be some things
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  that Ohio State will have to recognize and solve. And we are talking about
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  a team that has struggled mightily in the first quarter. Hopefully Ohio State has
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  been able to kind of go out see some things you have whatever it is,
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  six games of tape when it comes to Purdue to kind of go through
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  and we know that you're always going to get new wrinkles and things of that
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  nature. But you know, this is not going to be one of the
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  more formidable defenses in my opinion, just based on the fact that Ryan Walters
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  has only had this season. I mean, and it takes time. It
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  takes time to get your dudes in and everything else. And a couple of
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  key departures in the defense due to injuries probably going to keep Purdue a little
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  bit more base because they're gonna be guys that haven't done this on this level.
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  And this is not necessarily a game that Perdue is looking at as oh
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  boy, we have a real chance to steal one here, especially as you
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  mentioned, they've got guys banged up on both sides of the ball. And
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  we'll get to the offense in a minute, but you know, this is
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  also a team first year for Ryan Walters. You go back to last year
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  of the Ohio State defense. They're doing a lot more stuff this year than
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  they did last year, just because the first year you're just trying to get
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  up to speed. The second year, okay, now you've got you've got
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  all these guys back, You've got you know, a lot more time,
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  You've got a lot more time to get stuff installed. So yeah, it's
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  probably not going to be the single most complex defense. But as you said,
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  not a lot of pre rotation, so that picture sometimes changes for the
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  quarterback after the snap. So that'll be an interesting challenge for Kyle McCord.
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  Another potential challenge for Kyle McCord might not be having Mega Abuka on Saturday.
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  He hurt his leg last week during the game against Maryland. They have not
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  released the availability reports, so we'll find this out at ten o'clock on Saturday.
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  I'm expecting him to be on there as either a game time decision or
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  maybe just out. There is certainly an argument to just hank hold him out
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  and just have him get well with Penn State on deck with Noel Mecha Buk.
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  If there is Noel Mica Abuka, how would that potentially change things for
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  the Ohio State offense. Yeah, you certainly lose probably one of the best
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  receivers in the nation. I mean, he just happens to be mentioned as
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  the number two at Ohio State because of who the number one is. But
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  does that put more pressure on Marvin Harrison Junior? Are you able to bracket
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  him a little bit more? I mean, Ohio State does not have a
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  shortage of receivers. We haven't necessarily seen a deep rotation this year. I
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  think you're still going to see obviously Marvin, You're still going to see Julian.
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  Could this be a Xavier Johnson type of situation. I think that he
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  might get the first look. Could Carnell Tate? Could we see a debut
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  of Brandon Innitz. Could we see them do a little bit more of a
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  twelve one back two tights with g Scott Junior and have him out there as
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  a little bit more of a pass catcher. We already know that cade Stover
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  really appears to be a good safety net Kyle McCord out there. There are
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  a lot of different ways that Ohio State could attack this and approach this.
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  I think when it comes to a Mecca, I think you list them as
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  questionable or whatever. That status is dress them and have it kind of we're
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  gonna hold on to your helmet for now. Oh, it's an emergency,
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  break the glass at that point. But you know, if it ends up
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  becoming an emergency, a mecca status is probably the least of their concerns.
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  Yeah, And you know one thing that will probably I think we're all expecting
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  to keep it from being an emergency is the fact that the Ohio State defense
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  is substantially, substantially substantially better than the last time Ohio State played at Rassate
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  Stadium and gave up forty nine points. This year, Jim Knowle's that defense
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  they have. No one has cracked twenty on them this year, and they've
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  played some halfway decent offenses and still held Maryland to seventeen and Notre Dame to
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  fourteen. This Purdue offense, you've got a transfer quarterback Hudson Card from Texas.
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  Sixty three point six percent completions, seven yards per attempt, six touchdowns,
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  five interceptions. Like it's fine, but those are not blow you away
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  numbers by any means. Devin MacCabe starting running back four point three yards per
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  carry, four touchdowns. Again fine, good solid player, not. You
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  know, this is not vintage Ricky Williams or vintage Barry Sanders or anything like
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  that. This is much more in line with kind of more you know,
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  kind of the Maryland ground game last week, and they're going to be potentially
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  a little shorthanded in that run game as well, right with no Tyrone Tracy,
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  who I really feel was kind of emerging as their number one back.
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  I mean, Tracy and maccaby are a one to one a type of situation.
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  They have a younger back as well, who I think is going to
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  see more run with no Tyrone Tracy, but Tracy really had started coming along
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  the last couple of games, and now to lose him that is a big
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  hit for them. With Graham Harrell as the offensive coordinator, it's an air
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  raid, but it's an air raid that runs a little slower and is a
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  little more welcome welcoming to the run. Devin mackabie puts the ball on the
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  ground a decent amount and it really can kind of be hit or miss with
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  him as well. So I think Purdue is in trouble in terms of what
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  it's running game is going to be. And then obviously with Hudson card.
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  He maybe sixty three point three or six whatever that was, but the numbers,
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  I look at six touchdowns, five interceptions. He's been a little interceptee
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  in his career, and Ohio State coming off of a couple picks, I
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  think that those dbs are going to be jumping routes really with only one major
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  target in my opinion, on the pass catchers, and that's Stan Burks.
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  And that's no disrespect to TJ. Sheffield, but Sheffield has been a lot
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  of underneath stuff. Burke's is kind of their their big threat, and I
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  think we're going to see some really good battles with him and a guy that
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  were very used to seeing Burke's on burg Yeah, Burt, Yeah, Burke's
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  on Burke violence or vice versa. Yeah, Burke sixteen and a half yards
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  per reception this year, abduer Rokwan Yechine thirteen point two and then Sheffield eleven
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  point eight. So yeah, if he if there is going to be a
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  big play, probably Burks four touchdown receptions for him, only two for the
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  other guys on the team, So that'll that kind of covers the covers the
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  broad strokes of this game. Tony Gerderman and I did a much deeper dive
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  on the game. Some of the higher States upcoming opponents answered a bunch of
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  your questions on the Buckeye Weekly podcast. Did a special live episode of that
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  on Friday afternoons. You can find that at YouTube dot com slash Bucket Huddle
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  as well. Kevin, I guess let's let's end this with with game predictions.
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  You and I. You know we didn't plan this out. You and
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  I and Tony. We all ended up kind of in the same basic neighborhood
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  here. Yeah, we seem to at least agree with what it is we
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  expect to see whether or not that's the way the game goes. The remains
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  close. I mean, I was a point off against Maryland, but you
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  know, it is what it is. I mean, I'm not taking too
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  many victory laps. I don't have to sleep on the cot of shame,
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  so I'm happy enough with that. But thirty five to ten Ohio State,
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  I think we'll start with a ten of produce. I think that you know,
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  they'll hit a big player two. I think they'll prolong a drive or
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  two along the way. I don't think they're going to be able to run
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  the ball all that much. I think that Dion Burks, as we talked
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  about, he may get loose on something, just in terms of maybe Ohio
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  State gets a little too aggressive or whatever. You just never know. As
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  for Ohio State, I think Ohio State is going to see a couple more
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  offensive drives in this game than others, because I think Purdue will stall out
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  a decent amount. But until I see Ohio State convert on more than four
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  or five scoring drives, I can't. I can't in good conscience pick anything
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  above thirty five. I guess if they went for two every time, I
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  guess, then I could do forty. But until I see it in a
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  game of any sort of consequence, I just can't take myself over thirty five.
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  Yeah, my prediction is this will not be the game where Ohio State
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  burns multiple good two point plays, not expecting that on Saturday I had the
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  Buckeyes winning thirty one seventeen. The longer we talk about this game, the
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  more I talk myself into I might be a little high on Purdue in a
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  little low in Ohio State. We'll see. I'm in the same boat as
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  you. I just I kind of need to see it. I need to
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  see the run game hit. If they're running for five and a half six
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  years to carry, I think that's going to be a very encouraging sign for
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  them heading into that Penn State game in a week. With Perdue being turnover
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  prone, you could end up with some short fields. You could end up
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  with a you know, a scoop and sores pick six whatever that makes that
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  you know, bumps that number up by seven or ten or fourteen points or
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  something like that. But yeah, this feels like a game that's probably going
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  to be a little bit annoying. Ohio State at Purdue never goes the way
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  that Ohio State fans want it to. It just even when they win,
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  it's generally not super inspiring. So we'll be keeping an eye on all that
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  report, injury report STATUSU Meca Buka and anyone else on that report come into
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  you at ten a m at YouTube dot com, slash Bucke Huddle, Tony
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  Gerdaman and I will do that show from ross Aids Stadium. Once we get
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  there, get all set up, get that availability to report in. We
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