Archie Griffin, A.J. Hawk and a discussion about Ohio State's homegrown talent

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Which former Ohio State football player best exemplifies what it means to be a Buckeye? That’s what we’ll spend the next week trying to figure out with the help of the Buckeye Talk Subtext subscribers. Over 150 people were considered but only 32 could make the official bracket as Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis discuss some of the greatest players in history. But this isn’t about just being the best. It’s about telling the story of a program and who we can’t tell that story without. That continues with our second Elite 8 matchup featuring Archie Griffin and A.J. Hawk. 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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0:00.0	Hey, hey, where you've been,
0:17.1	Buckeye talk is about to begin.
0:20.5	Hey, hey, hey, come on in. Ben, Buckeye Talk is about to begin.
0:24.8	Hey, hey, hey, come on in.
0:33.7	Welcome back to Buckeye Talk.
0:34.4	I'm Stephen Means.
0:36.2	That's Stefan Christnick, and that's Andrew Gillis. As we continue our greatest Buckeye bracket challenge sponsored by Woody Hayes. Yesterday, we talked
0:42.8	Eddie George and Orlando Pace today. We continue on with the Jim Tressel Regional Championship
0:48.7	game between Archie Griffin as the number one overall seed and AJ Hawk as the number nine overall seed.
0:56.2	How did they get here?
0:57.2	Archie Griffin knocked off Vic Janowitz in the first round.
1:00.3	He got 98% of the votes in that round.
1:02.6	And then he knocked off Howard Hopplong Cassidy in the second round.
1:05.6	He got 97% of the votes in that wrong.
1:08.8	How did AJ Hulk get here?
1:12.7	He pretty easily handled Chase Young, got 82% of the votes in that wrong. How did AJ Halk get here? He pretty easily handled Chase Young got 82% of those votes. And then he had his first tight-knit get down to the
1:18.3	buzzer game where they were fouling at the end of the game. 51% of the votes against
1:23.3	Ezekiel Elliott in the Sweet 16. And really, I don't even know if that does it justice. He got like two more
1:29.1	votes than Ezekiel Elliott did the entire time. So barely pulls that one out to get to the elite eight
1:34.3	where he faces Archie Griffin stuff on. So that's what we have here. We have one guy who's been
1:39.4	blowing everybody out and another guy who had to kind of fight his way here. So is this a battle of Russ
1:45.5	versus rest? It's time to find out. Russ versus rest, Andrew? Is Archie Griffin going to
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