The And the Hello Buckeye fans and welcome to a Cotton Bowl episode of the Bucknuts Happy

Hour here from what's our hotel called Steve?

The Weston Irving, Texas Convention Center location, a really neat area here.

They've got some bars and restaurants just near here. The Toyota Music Center is just south of here as well.

Kind of a probably four or five thousand seat music venue you know for some concerts and

comedy shows and whatever it's kind of a neat thing and everything's quiet here

because the convention business kind of goes dead over the holidays the the convention center is over our shoulder here behind us this big

building and there's nobody over there because they don't do conventions during

the holidays but this was a perfect place for the bowl to put us up. We're about 20 minutes west to the

stadium and about 15 minutes east to the airport so it all works out good.

Yeah, easy peasy, they shuttle us around and we get where we need to go.

Again, this is the Bucknuts Happy Hour. I'm Patrick Murphy.

This is Steve Hellwagon. We are here in Dallas for the game which will take place tomorrow.

We're recording this on Thursday afternoon. You may notice we have this Missouri Tigers logo

behind us. That will be the Buckeyes opponent in the Cotton Bowl. Steve, we talked about this last week, but the level of interest for you

for the fan base everybody since it was announced to now the day before the game.

How much do you think that's changed?

Well, I think that now that we know that so many of Ohio State's draft eligible players are going to be playing in this game,

I think that that has really kind of upped the intensity level, I guess a little bit,

or the anticipation level, probably more accurate.

When you tell people that you're going to get to see a Mecca,

J.T.

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