Buckeyes ranked No. 4 in CFP | Illinois tough or a turkey?
Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast
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🗓️ 25 November 2020
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Ohio State is ranked No. 4 in the initial College Football Playoff rankings of 2020, which were released Tuesday night. Matt Baxendell joins Dave Biddle on today's show to discuss that, plus:
* What did Ryan Day and Kerry Coombs have to say about the Buckeyes' defensive issues?
* What are thoughts and predictions of OSU's game at Illinois on Saturday? The Illini are on a 2-game winning streak. But will they be able to give Ohio State a good game? Or is this headed for blowout territory?
* The recruiting just keeps getting better for the Buckeyes, who just landed 2022 5-star wide receiver Caleb Burton.
All of that and more is coming your way on the "Thanksgiving Eve" version of the 5ish.
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| 0:00.0 | And the Good morning buck bucknutters. |
| 0:23.0 | Welcome to the bucknuts morning five here on Wednesday, November 25th, 2020. |
| 0:28.0 | I am Dave Biddle. |
| 0:29.0 | I am very happy to join by the People's Champ, Matt Baxendale. |
| 0:32.0 | Before we delve into eating a lot of turkey |
| 0:35.1 | tomorrow and watching a lot of football tomorrow and throughout the rest of the |
| 0:39.1 | weekend let's talk some Ohio State Buckeyes backs first of all I mean there's so much to get into today, but I want to start with the big story college football playoff rankings coming out last night the Buckeyes. Number four there behind number one Alabama number two Notre Dame number three Clemson I thought the Buckeyes would be fourth and frankly they should be third the Buckeyes should but whatever it's irrelevant in the grand scheme if Ohio State wins out they're |
| 1:04.8 | getting in the CFP and if they you know get some style points against Northwestern |
| 1:08.8 | who got the number |
| 1:13.3 | eight ranking which is actually good for Ohio State because the committee is |
| 1:13.8 | maybe you know viewing Northwestern better than the voters are in the AP poll |
| 1:17.8 | where Northwestern is number 11 even though I don't agree with it backs |
| 1:21.4 | I'm not been out of shape that the Buckeyes are number four. |
| 1:23.8 | It's irrelevant in the grand scheme. |
| 1:25.4 | Curious to get your thoughts on Ohio State being number four |
| 1:28.0 | and the initial college football playoff rankings. |
| 1:30.5 | I don't care that they're number four. |
| 1:31.9 | They've played half the games of the two ACC teams ahead of them. |
| 1:35.0 | And while I think they would beat those ACC teams, the reality is it's not a big deal. |
| 1:40.0 | When and you're in. When and you're in. Do I need to say it again, when and you are in? |
| 1:44.4 | There's no way an undefeated Ohio State team is going to be kept out of the |
| 1:47.4 | championship playoff bracket, plain and simple. So like let's not get our our panties in a wad about this one here everybody. |
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