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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

6 questions about Ohio State football’s defense heading into fall camp

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Football, Sports

4.21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State will start fall camp later this week with plenty of questions about what its identity will be on both sides of the ball. With so much to discuss, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis are taking the next two days to dive into all of it. Over the next two days, Buckeye Talk will discuss the most important questions looming around the program heading into 2025. Today, we look at a defense that only returns three starters from 2024. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk and sign up to get text messages from experts Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis at 614-350-3315. Get the insider analysis, have your voice heard on the Buckeye Talk podcast and connect with the best Buckeye community out there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.2

Hey, hey, hey, come on then.

1:01.9

Welcome back to Bucket Talk. I'm Stephen Means, and that's Stefan Christick, and that is

1:05.2

Andrew Gillis. We are 24 hours away from Ohio State starting fall camp as it prepares for the

1:10.2

2025 season, which means

1:12.7

we're doing a bunch of questions. We're previewing fall camp. I kind of broke this down yesterday.

1:17.6

Same new day, same formula. Three questions, some commercials to pay the bills. Three more questions.

1:25.0

Yesterday, it was offense. Today, it's going to be the defensive side of the ball

1:28.3

featuring new defensive coordinator, Matt Patricia, and only three returning starters in Caleb Downs,

1:35.6

Sonny Stiles, and Davis and Igbenosin. And then you've got some secondary guys who played

1:40.4

meaningful snaps last year, but they're stepping in the full-time starting rules for the first time guys like Jermaine Matthews, guys like Kenyatta Jackson and Kate and Cary,

1:48.0

guys like R. Val Reese, and even education and Caden McDonald to a standpoint. But still,

1:52.9

three returning starters from arguably the best defense in college football by a ton of

1:57.8

different metrics and a new defensive coordinator because Ohio State's old

2:01.0

defensive coordinator decided to go home to Pennsylvania and be the defensive coordinator

2:05.7

for Penn State. Devon, I think we started with you yesterday with the defensive questions.

2:10.9

Andrew, you're going to get to go first today on the defensive side. What's your question?

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