Buckeyes have second-best odds to win it all | CFP title or bust for OSU?

Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

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🗓️ 30 October 2019

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Ohio State is tied with Clemson for the second-best odds in the country to win the national championship this season at 3/1. Alabama checks in first at 11/4. The People's Champ, Matt Baxendell, joins Dave Biddle for today's show to talk about the Buckeyes' national title hopes and much more. Entering a season with a "national championship or bust" mindset is setting yourself up for serious disappointment. But after eight games, with as impressive as the Buckeyes are looking, does Bax have a national title or bust attitude this season? Also on the docket: * Is Chase Young a legit contender to win the Heisman Trophy? * How impressive is the toughness and attitude of this OSU squad? * What are thoughts on college athletes likely being able to profit off their likeness by the year 2021? All of that and more is coming at you on the Wednesday 5ish. 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 And the Good morning.
0:29.0	Good morning, bucknoters.
0:30.0	The Bucknuts morning.
0:31.0	Five here on Wednesday, October 30th 30th 2019 I am Dave Biddle very happy to join by the people's champ Matt Baxendale
0:37.2	backs the topic of national championship robust I want to discuss that with you on
0:41.4	today's show Bill Green and I talked about a little bit on Monday.
0:44.2	I am never a national championship or bus guy entering a season.
0:48.0	And usually not even in the middle of the season.
0:49.6	But I want to ask you this, now eight games into the season with as good as Ohio State looks as great as they look and really there's not a you know you look around the country
0:58.1	Yeah, there's some good teams out there, but really no one that I fear I'm just curious to you after eight
1:03.6	games do you have a national championship or bus mindset with the Buckeyes this year?
1:08.5	Yeah absolutely and I did not have one up to start of the year. Start of the year was a
1:12.3	wait and see kind of moment.
1:13.7	You know, you figure you lose a game, maybe two, who knows,
1:16.4	and let Ryan Day get his feet wet as a head coach,
1:18.3	and that has not happened whatsoever.
1:20.4	The truth is, is that if Ohio State doesn't win the national title this year
1:24.0	this season will be one of those years in 10 years where we're all looking back at
1:27.4	at lamenting that we didn't win the national title. It'll be like 2015 or 2005
1:31.9	one of those years where you're like man we had the best team and we didn't win it dang it that'll be how we're all going to feel if this team does not win the championship and I say that because there's no one else in the country right now who looks like they're at Ohio State's level in both sides of the football.
1:48.0	There's no one in the country who has played nearly as good of a schedule as OSU among the top teams and frankly
1:54.8	OSU just looks like they're killing people so it all things combined this
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