Bearcats will present 'litmus test' for Buckeyes
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🗓️ 6 September 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Ohio State will have its first "litmus test" of the season when Cincinnati comes to town Saturday (noon ET; ABC) in the words of our Steve Helwagen.
Steve joins Dave Biddle for today's show to talk about all things Buckeyes vs. Bearcats. What can you expect to see in this game? Where does OSU have the clear advantages? Where is UC strong?
Plus, has the proverbial light bulb come on for Ohio State junior linebacker Baron Browning?
All of that and more is coming at you on the Friday extravaganza.
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| 0:00.0 | The Thank you. Good morning. |
| 0:29.0 | Good morning, bucknaut as well as to you the bucknuts morning five here on Friday, September |
| 0:32.3 | 6th 2019 2019 I am Dave |
| 0:34.2 | Biddle very happy joined by Steve Hell Wagon Steve you see coming here tomorrow |
| 0:40.0 | high noon buck guy is favored by 16.5 points. |
| 0:44.0 | You know, your general impressions of this game |
| 0:47.1 | is kind of what you expect to see tomorrow. |
| 0:49.9 | Dave, I'm excited about this game |
| 0:51.5 | because I think this is a litmus test game for Ohio State and it comes in week two. |
| 0:57.2 | It's not a big ten game and yet it's going to have a big ten feel to it because of the physicality that Cincinnati is going to bring to the table. |
| 1:05.8 | I think they're going to hit Ohio State and try and hit them in the mouth and try and bully |
| 1:10.3 | the bully and we'll see how Ohio State responds. It is a young |
| 1:14.0 | team for the Buckeyes in a lot of positions and a lot of guys that never |
| 1:19.1 | really played a lot of football including the quarterback Justin Fields. So if they can get to |
| 1:25.0 | fields which Florida Atlantic did a few times last week it'll be interesting to |
| 1:30.2 | see how Fields responds and how the Buckeyes respond knowing that this team's not going to back down. |
| 1:37.0 | In the last 13 months, they've beaten UCLA twice and they've beaten Virginia Tech and people will say oh excuse me |
| 1:47.0 | UCLA is not that good but they are a Power Five conference team with Power Five athletes and linemen and everything else. |
| 1:57.1 | And you see took care of business. Both times they played them, beat them by more than a touchdown, both times they played them beat them by more than a touchdown both times they played so |
| 2:04.4 | this is a respectable team just outside the national top 25 right now and |
| 2:09.8 | certainly if they win it would put them in position to be in a new year six bowl and I just think that you know they've got everything to gain and nothing to lose by playing Ohio State and that's when an opponent can be extremely dangerous. |
| 2:27.8 | They've got a good quarterback third to your sophomore. Desmond Ritter who was good as a |
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