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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Can Ohio State avoid the ‘trap game’ against Wisconsin?

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State's next game is probably the closest thing on the schedule that resembles the idea of a trap game. OSU is coming off a hard-fought, emotional win over a top-10-ranked Penn State team and now will head on the road for a night game against a Big Ten West opponent. Wisconsin comes into Saturday night’s game with a 5-2 record in the first year under long-long Buckeye Luke Fickell looking to put up a better fight than the first time he faced his alma mater in 2019 as Cincinnati’s head coach. Stephen Means, Nathan Baird and Andrew Gillis use this Fridau episode of Buckeye Talk to preview Ohio State’s Week 9 opponent and whether it can shut down another quality Big Ten running back in Braelon Allen. The Tyler Shoemaker joins the pod as usual to provide some of the best bets of the week both in relation to OSU and around the country. That includes whether or not to continue hammering home the point that maybe Las Vegas is a little too low on tight end Cade Stover’s production. Then Nathan and Andrew rejoin Stephen as the trio gives their game picks, followed by Nathan giving Stephen a hard time for his conservative fake betting practices this season. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, where you been? But God talk is about to begin. Hey, hey, hey, come on in.

0:30.0

Welcome back to Buckeye Talk, Steve and me is Nathan Baird. He's back from the availability report.

0:38.0

He's alive and well. I don't know if I'm well. I'm alive.

0:42.0

He's alive. He's breathing. Andrew Gill is joining us as well as reprieve you Ohio states week nine matchup eighth game of season ninth week of the season matchup against Wisconsin on the road at 730 on MBC Wisconsin was ranked.

0:57.0

Let's start the year. I think they were 19th in the preseason ranking and were that for the first two weeks until they lost to Washington state the second week of the season.

1:04.0

They haven't been ranked since they've lost to Iowa and they're five and two on the season and we'll get into that shortly here.

1:11.0

But first little news Nathan Ryan Day on his radio show did specifically talk about a certain player who may or may not be available who has not played since the Notre Dame game.

1:22.0

And so we'll start with that should Ohio state fans be expecting to see Travion Henderson on Saturday against Wisconsin.

1:31.0

That's what Ryan Day says. Ryan Day says full go. He's a full go. He's had a great week of practice. So he'll be back. And I think what that's good for a couple of reasons.

1:39.0

Good for Ohio state to get him back and you know, try to, as I said before in some of these injuries kind of get guys in a groove, get them building towards what they're going to have to be for that Michigan game in a month.

1:51.0

But it's good for the big 10 and good for college football to get Travion Henderson and Braylon Allen on the field together one last time, potentially.

1:58.0

We don't know what's what's ahead for those guys. They're both draft eligible after this year, obviously.

2:02.0

So if if if either one or both decides to move on this will be the last time to get to go ahead ahead and both had pretty decent games against each other last year at Ohio stadium, although Ohio state clearly had the better Wisconsin overall.

2:14.0

So you know, this is a good challenge for you know, both these defenses try to stop these potential home run hitters.

2:20.0

Andrew, what about the other two Mary important pieces here? Mecca Buka and Denzel Burke, he got asked specifically about both of those guys along with Travion Henderson Wednesday night that the five he give off.

2:31.0

You know, make you want to believe that at least one of those two will also be available on Saturday.

2:36.0

Well, I think the guy that would be most likely would be a mecca, you know, Steven and I were at the Woody Hayes Center and you know, Ryan Day's talking and you're kind of looking over your shoulder seeing who's coming off the field of practice.

2:49.0

You know, he said they're hopeful to get Denzel Burke and a mecca Buka back obviously.

2:54.0

He added Travion Henderson to that, but today's you know on his radio show, we kind of talked a little bit differently about that.

3:00.0

So you feel good about that, but you're hopeful to get Burke and a Buka back.

3:05.0

We saw a mecca walk off the field, Steven and I did we saw him walk off the field in full pads.

3:11.0

So that doesn't mean that he was a full participant.

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