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Ohio State Reaction | Ohio State PROVED Something that WORRIES ALL of College Football · College Football Addiction: A Show About All Things College Football

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  Speaker 1: What's up, Hoosiers? What's up, Buckeyes? Thank you for tuning
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  Speaker 1: in today to College Football Addiction. That game was something,
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  Speaker 1: and it surely taught us a lot about both teams,
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  Speaker 1: but I want to spend a few minutes talking about
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  Speaker 1: the winner today. On our other channel, we will focus
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  Speaker 1: on the other side of this thing, but I want
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  Speaker 1: to talk to you about the game, what it meant,
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  Speaker 1: and where we go from here. First, a quick shout-out.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's dive into this thing. Your Buckeyes went
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  Speaker 1: into Bloomington and got it done. Ohio State 19, Indiana 15.
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  Speaker 1: Number four over number five on the road in a
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  Speaker 1: game billed as the biggest home game in Indiana history
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  Speaker 1: against the team that took the Big Ten title from
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  Speaker 1: you last December. How are you feeling right now? Probably exhausted,
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  Speaker 1: probably a little hoarse, and probably prouder than you've been
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  Speaker 1: all season. It was ugly. and your team had to
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  Speaker 1: grab this one with both hands and refuse to let go.
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  Speaker 1: You know the question that has followed this team since Austin.
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  Speaker 1: Can Ohio State finish a big game? People had their
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  Speaker 1: reasons for asking. Your team was up 23-3 at Texas
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  Speaker 1: and lost. Before that came the 13-10 loss to Indiana
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  Speaker 1: in the title game, and then the playoff loss to Miami.
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  Speaker 1: Three huge moments. Three times your team came up short. Honestly,
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  Speaker 1: that doubt was earned. Tonight, the answer was yes, even
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  Speaker 1: if it got messy. Ohio State built a 12-point lead
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  Speaker 1: early in the fourth quarter, and Indiana answered right away
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  Speaker 1: with a 75-yard touchdown drive in 2 minutes and 16 seconds,
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  Speaker 1: then added the two-point conversion. Suddenly, it's 19-15 with 10.5
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  Speaker 1: minutes left, and every single one of you was thinking
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  Speaker 1: the same thing. Here we go again. You'd seen this movie,
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  Speaker 1: and you knew how it ended. Except this time, it
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  Speaker 1: ended differently. Indiana got the ball back for one more chance,
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  Speaker 1: starting at its own 30. Their best receiver caught passes
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  Speaker 1: of 25 and 16 yards and moved them all the
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  Speaker 1: way to the Ohio State 27. Fourth and four. The
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  Speaker 1: throw went toward the end zone side of the field,
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  Speaker 1: toward the receiver who had already scored on them, and
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  Speaker 1: it fell incomplete. Ball game. In Austin, that late stop
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  Speaker 1: never came. In Bloomington, it did. With the season on
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  Speaker 1: the line, the defense stood there and said, not this time.
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  Speaker 1: And you needed to see that with your own eyes,
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  Speaker 1: in a hostile stadium, against a top-five team with the
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  Speaker 1: clock and the crowd both working against you. A press
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  Speaker 1: conference quote or a preseason preview was never going to
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  Speaker 1: settle it. Tonight, you got to watch it happen. The offense, though,
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  Speaker 1: did not close this game. After Indiana cut it to four,
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  Speaker 1: Ohio State put together a long possession that ate roughly
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  Speaker 1: five minutes and got into Indiana territory. And then an
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  Speaker 1: 18-yard sack and a holding penalty killed it. Punt. The
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  Speaker 1: next time out? The offense went backward. Another punt. That's
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  Speaker 1: two chances to put Indiana away, and two times your
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  Speaker 1: team handed the ball right back. The defense finished this one,
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  Speaker 1: and you can be thrilled about the win and still
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  Speaker 1: be frustrated with how the offense played down the stretch.
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  Speaker 1: But you know what the offense did do? It won
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  Speaker 1: the moments that decided this game. Both Ohio State touchdowns
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  Speaker 1: came on fourth down. Both of them. Right before halftime,
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  Speaker 1: trailing 7-3, Julian Sayen found Bo Jackson for a two-yard
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  Speaker 1: touchdown on fourth and goal with seven seconds left. Instead
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  Speaker 1: of jogging into the locker room down four, your team
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  Speaker 1: went in up 10-7. Then, early in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: it was fourth and one at the Indiana 38. Your
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  Speaker 1: team needed one yard. Sayen went to Jeremiah Smith and
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  Speaker 1: took 38. Touchdown. After Texas, a lot of people hammered
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  Speaker 1: this staff for playing it too safe. Tonight, they went
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  Speaker 1: for it twice, and they scored twice. Meanwhile, Indiana went
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  Speaker 1: for it twice, both times at the Ohio State 27,
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  Speaker 1: and came away with nothing either time. They also missed
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  Speaker 1: both of their field goal attempts. Ohio State made both
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  Speaker 1: of its kicks, and the guy who made them deserves
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  Speaker 1: a shout. Connor Hawkins, the same kicker who missed from
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  Speaker 1: 45 at Texas before that game-winning drive, hit from 26
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  Speaker 1: and 29 tonight. Short kicks, sure. But in a four-point game,
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  Speaker 1: those six points were everything, and he didn't flinch. This
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  Speaker 1: game was supposed to be a referendum on saying in
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  Speaker 1: big games. His line? 15 of 29, 235 yards, two touchdowns,
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  Speaker 1: two interceptions. That's a mixed bag. His first interception was
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  Speaker 1: returned 23 yards to the Ohio State 7, and it
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  Speaker 1: set up Indiana's only lead of the night. His second
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  Speaker 1: one stopped a third-quarter drive, though Indiana couldn't do anything
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  Speaker 1: with it. Completing barely over half your passes is not
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  Speaker 1: what you want from your quarterback in the biggest game
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  Speaker 1: of the season. On the other hand, he averaged 8.1
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  Speaker 1: yards per attempt and threw both of those fourth-down touchdowns.
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  Speaker 1: He spread it around in bursts. Chris Henry Jr., a
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  Speaker 1: true freshman, caught balls of 21 and 30 yards on
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  Speaker 1: that drive before halftime, and the 30-yarder came right after
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  Speaker 1: a sack had left them in second and 20. A
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  Speaker 1: freshman bailed out that drive in a top five road game.
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  Speaker 1: Jeremiah Smith finished with four catches for 68 yards, and
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  Speaker 1: one of those catches might end up deciding the Big Ten.
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  Speaker 1: My verdict on saying? People wanted a clean big game
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  Speaker 1: performance and didn't get one. But he made the throws
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  Speaker 1: that mattered most when the game was hanging in the balance.
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  Speaker 1: That's real progress from Austin, where he completed five of
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  Speaker 1: 16 after halftime. There's one more thing to watch. Late
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  Speaker 1: in the game, Sion took a sack and fumbled, and
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  Speaker 1: Phillip Daniels recovered it. After that, Luke Fahey took the
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  Speaker 1: remaining snaps, all the way through the kneel downs. Nobody
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  Speaker 1: has said why Sion came out. I'm not going to guess,
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  Speaker 1: and you shouldn't either, but keep an eye on it. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the line. This was the matchup everybody circled. Last December,
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  Speaker 1: Indiana held Ohio State to 58 rushing yards, 2.2 a carry,
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  Speaker 1: and sacked Sion five times. Your line came in shorthanded tonight, too.
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  Speaker 1: Daniels was back at right tackle, but Austin Seereveld was out.
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  Speaker 1: So did they answer the question? Partly. Indiana got three
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  Speaker 1: sacks instead of five, and the protection held long enough
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  Speaker 1: on the big throws. That's better. But Ohio State ran
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  Speaker 1: for 78 yards on 37 carries. That's 2.1 a carry,
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  Speaker 1: which is basically last December all over again. Bo Jackson
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  Speaker 1: worked hard for 56 yards on 18 attempts. and a
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  Speaker 1: backup back gave them a spark with 45 yards on
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  Speaker 1: six carries, including a 22-yarder in that long fourth-quarter drive.
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  Speaker 1: A holding call also wiped out a 20-yard Jackson run early.
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  Speaker 1: So the pass protection was good enough to win, but
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  Speaker 1: the run game is still unproven against an elite front.
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  Speaker 1: You'll want to see that change before the stretch run,
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  Speaker 1: because USC and Oregon are coming. Then there's the defense,
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  Speaker 1: and this is where you should feel the proudest. Coming
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  Speaker 1: into the season, the question was whether Matt Patricia could
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  Speaker 1: rebuild a unit that lost eight starters, especially up front.
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  Speaker 1: The worry going into tonight was a secondary facing Indiana's
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  Speaker 1: passing attack with some quieter concern about the run defense.
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  Speaker 1: The run defense was outstanding. Indiana ran for 73 yards
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  Speaker 1: on 29 carries. Their two main backs combined for 70
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  Speaker 1: yards on 25 attempts, And neither one had a run
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  Speaker 1: longer than seven yards, seven yards all night. That was
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  Speaker 1: your front winning at the line over and over. The
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  Speaker 1: secondary is more complicated. Indiana's top receiver caught nine passes
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  Speaker 1: for 165 yards. Their quarterback threw for 296. That receiver
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  Speaker 1: kept getting open and he kept moving them into scoring position.
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  Speaker 1: And that's a real concern going forward. But look at
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  Speaker 1: what happened when Indiana got close. Their quarterback completed only
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  Speaker 1: half his throws. In the third quarter, Indiana's first three
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  Speaker 1: possessions ended fumble, fumble, missed field goal. One of those
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  Speaker 1: fumbles came on fourth down when Jalen McClain got home
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  Speaker 1: for a sack and knocked the ball loose. This defense
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  Speaker 1: bent a lot, and it still never broke when it counted.
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  Speaker 1: Holding a top-five team to 15 points on its own
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  Speaker 1: field is about as good an answer as you could
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  Speaker 1: ask for. Indiana deserves real credit, too. They outgained your
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  Speaker 1: team 369 to 313. They averaged 5.3 yards a play
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  Speaker 1: to your 4.6. They converted half of their third downs.
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  Speaker 1: Their defense picked off Sayen twice and sacked him three times,
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  Speaker 1: and their edge rusher was a problem all night. Indiana fans,
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  Speaker 1: that was a great football team that had every chance
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  Speaker 1: to win, and you should be proud of how it fought.
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  Speaker 1: Nobody got lucky here. It was a heavyweight fight that
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  Speaker 1: came down to four plays near the Ohio State 27
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  Speaker 1: and the end zone. This win doesn't settle everything. It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't prove the line is fixed or that this offense
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  Speaker 1: can close a game with the ball in its hands.
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  Speaker 1: The secondary still has to show it can handle a
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  Speaker 1: great receiver without giving up big chunks. Those questions are
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  Speaker 1: real and they're still open. What it does prove is
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  Speaker 1: that your team can go on the road against a
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  Speaker 1: top five opponent and take a punch in the fourth quarter,
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  Speaker 1: and still win. This defense is good enough to carry
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  Speaker 1: you on a night when the offense sputters. And the
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  Speaker 1: Texas loss was not who this team is. Ohio State
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  Speaker 1: is now 6-1 and 4-0 in the Big Ten. This
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  Speaker 1: game was expected to make the winner a significant favorite
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  Speaker 1: to win the conference, and your team is the one
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  Speaker 1: walking out of Bloomington with that. You avenged December. You
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  Speaker 1: got the monkey off your back in a big game.
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  Speaker 1: Next comes a trip to the Coliseum to face USC,
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  Speaker 1: then Oregon and Columbus, and Michigan waiting at the end.
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  Speaker 1: This team started the year ranked number one with national
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  Speaker 1: title expectations, and after tonight, those expectations are alive and well.
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  Speaker 1: You earned this one. Enjoy it. If you want more
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