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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Breaking down an all-time matchup between Ohio State and Texas

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Football, Sports

4.21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 August 2025

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State and Texas are two of college football's most historic programs, but which has the deeper pool of all-time talent? On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis try to figure that out. The trio put together an all-time starting lineup for both schools and will discuss who has the edge where. 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

Welcome back to Buck I Talk. I'm Stephen Eames. That's Defon Krasnick. And that is Andrew Gillis.

0:05.0

And we're living in hypothetical world today. Ohio State and Texas play each other next Saturday in the shoe at noon. Get the text 6-14-4-3-0-3-315. And the reason why is because if you want all news, all analysis, all anything you could possibly ever want, this is the perfect time to do so. It's a two-week free trial and it's

0:20.9

399 after that. The hypothetical world we are living in is because these are two of the most

0:26.1

prominent programs in the history of college football with a lot of guys over the histories

0:32.5

of their long-tenured programs who have been elite college football players and going on to

0:36.6

do great things other ways. So we decided to ask the question, who would win an all-time matchup

0:44.3

between Ohio State and Texas? And here are the teams. And we're kind of altering the way

0:50.8

we're going to talk about this today because we put the teams together,

0:54.4

looked at them, and then realized Ohio State has never been bad at football. And so this is why

0:58.6

this might not even be a close conversation. Here are the Kings. Here's Texas. What we did was

1:03.3

one quarterback, two running backs, three wide receivers, a tight end, a left tackle, a right

1:08.3

tackle, a left guard, a right guard, a center on offense and on

1:11.3

defense, two defensive ends, two defensive tackles, three linebackers, three cornerbacks,

1:16.5

and two safeties. And we did that. We went a little further than a starting 22 is because we

1:21.1

wanted to give the level of options of, we know schemes have changed over times, base defenses

1:26.2

have changed over times. And defenses have changed over times.

1:28.0

And also it honors enough guys at each position group to feel like you have a full roster versus Ohio State receivers are awesome.

1:35.3

But Texas has two good running backs.

1:37.4

So why would we only give them one good running back?

1:39.9

Right.

1:40.0

Ohio State has a lineage of linebackers, but Texas has a lineage of cornerbacks.

2:01.9

So does Ohio State too. So here are the teams. Here's Texas' team first at quarterback, Vince Young. The two running backs are Earl Campbell and Ricky Williams, both of which one Heism and trophies. The wide receivers, Roy Williams, Jordan Shipley, and line is Swede. Tight-in, David Thomas. Left tackle, left to right on the offensive line. Tony Hills,

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