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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Can Ohio State win a national title on the back of its defense?

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2023

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State just got its second big win of the season beating Penn State at home 20-12 and it did so on the back of its defense. On this postgame Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Nathan Baird and Andrew Gillis discuss whether OSU’s defense has reached the point that it can be the catalyst behind the reason this team can win a national title. Plus a conversation about McCord’s continued progression including one major deficiency that keeps popping up even if it has yet to be costly. All that and more on this postgame episode. 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 Bucket Talks, Steve Amines, Nathan Baird, Andrew Gillis after Ohio

0:36.8

State's 20 to 12 win over Penn State, another top 15 win, top 10 win for Ohio State.

0:43.3

Noted that was in the top 10 when they played them. So you can say that even though the number

0:46.1

15 right now, but top another top 10 win for Ohio State. And let's just off the bat. Nathan,

0:51.9

I'll come to you first. We did a video on this. And I think it's a worthy discussion and

0:55.9

start things off here. Can Ohio State win a national championship on the back of its

1:00.7

defense?

1:01.7

I think it's going to have to. I wonder what we're choice of they have. They can't run the

1:05.2

ball. Like that, that second half today, 1.1 yards per carry, sack adjusted in the second

1:12.0

half. Maybe Trevor and Henderson helped out. Maybe not. I'm not trying to start on a

1:15.2

negative side. So let's, so I just don't think they're, I just don't think they're going

1:18.9

to see the explosion this on offense this year that we're accustomed to. I just don't

1:22.6

know that it's ever going to get there. But this defense is great. So let's just talk

1:25.8

it. Let's, let's make sure I'm talking about it from that perspective, talking to myself

1:29.0

here.

1:30.0

I mean, this defense today, yes, there were a couple of plays that it gave up, you know,

1:35.0

Pinsley weirdly had like its most success on first down. And it was at one point in this

1:39.1

game where it had 15, it four plays of 15 and more yards. They were all on first down.

1:43.5

And then like at one point, it was like six out of seven. And, but then Ohio State kept

1:51.6

putting, this was, I thought just a little bit of a masterclass by Jim Knowles, like you

1:56.8

put this game on Drew Aller, like they stopped the run often enough early enough on early

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