Archie Griffin's Ohio State aura and a conversation about an unmatchable accomplishment

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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🗓️ 29 May 2025

⏱️ 58 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. We’ve finally reached the final stage of this discussion with the debut of our Final Four featuring Archie Griffin, Eddie George, Chris Spielman and James Laurinaitis. Here’s Part 1 of that discussion. 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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0:42.8	Hey, hey, where you've been,
0:46.1	Buckeye talk is about to begin.
0:50.5	Hey, hey, hey, come on in. Welcome back to Buckeye Talk.
0:58.8	I'm Stephen Means.
0:59.5	That's the fun Christnick.
1:00.3	And that is Andrew Gillis.
1:01.7	Day two of our final four discussion.
1:03.8	But we're not doing the matchup style this time.
1:06.0	We're just putting all four of them against each other for our greatest Buckeye bracket.
1:10.0	It's Archie Griffin,
1:11.1	Eddie George, Chris Spielman, and James Lora Nitis yesterday. We ranked them based off of their
1:16.7	accolades and stats. Team success. And who has the best moment as an Ohio State football player?
1:21.6	And now we head into the success against Michigan. James Laurinitis 4-0 against Michigan,
1:27.3	25 to 21, 49 to 39, 14 to 3, 42 to 7.
1:31.4	Those are his scores from 2005 to 2008. Archie Griffin, 3,0, and 1 against Michigan, 14 to 11, 10 to 10, 12 to 10, 21 to 14, are his scores from 1972 to 1975. Eddie George, one, two, and one, 13 to 13,
1:49.4	28 to nothing, 22 to 6, 31 to 23. Those are his scores while going up against Michigan
1:57.4	from 1992 to 1995. And then Chris Spielman, 2 and two, 21 to 6, 27 to 17, 26 to 24, and 23 to 20 from 1984 to 1987.
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