Buckeyes beat 'Canes for nation's No. 1 recruit | Cotton Bowl eve

Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

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🗓️ 30 December 2025

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State and Miami will face each other tomorrow night in the Cotton Bowl as part of the College Football Playoff. But your Buckeyes have already earned a 'win' over the 'Canes on the recruiting. D.J. Jacobs, the nation's No. 1 prospect, according to 247Sports, committed to Ohio State on Monday afternoon. Many pundits - and Miami fans - expected the Georgia defensive end to choose Miami. How did Ohio State close the deal? Garrick Hodge and Mark Porter are here to discuss. Oh yeah, there's an actual football game against Miami tomorrow night. We dive deep on all the latest news. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Good morning Bucknutter's, and I mean that.
0:30.0	It is Tuesday, December 30th, 2025.
0:34.7	26 is almost here.
0:36.3	I am Dan Rubin.
0:37.4	This is the Bucknuts Morning 5 in Change, joined as always by Garrick Hodge and Mark Porter.
0:45.2	So I whipped up a really nice rundown here on Cotton Bowl Eve.
0:49.4	Garrick is in the Dallas area, specifically Irving, Texas, along with Pat Murphy and Steve Hellwagon covering the event.
0:59.4	Mark has hunkered down in his secluded headquarters, and then wouldn't you know?
1:05.1	Ohio State pulls one, I don't know, whatever cliche you want, out of the bag, hits it at the tape, whatever.
1:13.0	As of yesterday morning, the top recruit in the class of 2027, according to 24-7 sports, DJ Jacobs,
1:23.6	a defensive end from where Oswell, Georgia, was announcing his commitment on CBS Sports,
1:31.0	and all signs ported, ported, Mark ported, all signs pointed towards the hurricanes of Miami getting the commitment.
1:41.8	Pre-writes were done by recruiting writers. It was a big deal. Then, as Tom
1:51.0	Loy relayed in a beautiful fashion, literally our guy gets up, DJ gets up from the dais takes a phone call comes back and your Buckeyes are then announced as the winner.
2:08.9	Garrick, could you please put in the details to this and this is my favorite LJ is washed.
2:18.9	He's an old guy, huh?
2:20.9	Yeah.
2:24.0	Take it away, Garrett.
2:25.4	Yeah, geez.
2:26.8	So it's been a whirlwind of a 24 hours for sure.
2:30.4	I went to bed Sunday evening thinking that this one was over. Got pretty strong
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