Cardale Jones talks Ohio State national championship, Jeremiah Smith's greatness & his OSU Mt. Rushmore
Until Saturday: A show about college football
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🗓️ 13 January 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Ohio State punched their ticket to the College Football Playoff national championship after beating Texas last week. With a week before their meeting with Notre Dame, Damien Harris welcomes former national championship-winning OSU QB, NIL collective co-founder, and CBS analyst, Cardale Jones! Cardale talks what changed with OSU this postseason, where Jeremiah Smith ranks among all-time OSU WRs, his incredible playoff run, the defense, Ryan Day validation and more. Plus, Cardale opens up about 'The Foundation', one of the Buckeyes' collectives that he oversees, and how this roster came together. Also, who's on Cardale's OSU Mt. Rushmore?
Rundown:
- Cardale's wild tweets (3:15)
- OSU vs Texas thoughts (6:00)
- What changed with Ohio State? (8:15)
- Do OSU fans have Michigan to thank? (11:00)
- What's more important: Beating Michigan or winning a natty? (14:00)
- Jeremiah Smith's ranking among all-time OSU WRs (19:00)
- Should Smith forego his Junior season? (21:15)
- Cardale's postseason run & what he sees in Will Howard (25:30)
- Jim Knowles hat tip (31:00)
- Has Ryan Day acquitted himself? (33:45)
- Why invest "$20M" on OSU's roster this season? (40:00)
- Adapting to changing tides (42:00)
- How much can The Foundation support in the future? (43:30)
- OSU Mt. Rushmore (46:30)
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| 0:47.5 | I'm Damian Harris, holding it down. |
| 0:49.7 | Chris and David, unfortunately, are not with us. |
| 0:51.9 | But with me today, a very, very special guests, |
| 0:56.3 | former Ohio State quarterback, co-founder and GM of Ohio State's The Foundation Collective, |
| 1:02.4 | and my colleague at CBS, the man with the best nickname in college football history, |
| 1:07.8 | 12 gauge himself, Mr. Cardell Jones. Cardo, what the hell is up? |
| 1:12.3 | Oh, man. First and foremost, good morning, bro. Thanks for having me. I've been trying to get on |
| 1:16.0 | the show for quite some time now. Thank you. We finally made it happen. Yeah, thank you for |
| 1:21.9 | allowing me to grace you guys with my unbelievable presence. But I don't know. I'm just feeling a little bit short end on that intro. I was filling it. And I figure in the state of my buck guys right now, getting rid of a national championship, you would have threw in there a little bit of that national championship winning quarterback. But I guess we can say that for later. |
| 1:44.8 | Hold on, hold on. |
| 1:46.2 | Okay, so let me, let me go back here. |
| 1:47.6 | We're going to keep recording camp. |
| 1:51.3 | So let me give my man the proper introduction. |
| 1:57.0 | Not only does he have, we'll get into that. |
| 2:01.5 | Not only does Carter have the best nickname in all of college football history, but he also has one of the most legendary CFP runs that we have ever seen, knocking off Alabama, |
| 2:08.9 | knocking off Oregon, on the way to a national championship for the Ohio State Buckeyes. |
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