Welcome back to a Cotton Bowl post-game, Buckeye Talk, Doug Leymie, Bill Landis,

at 248 Central Time. 3.48 Eastern after Ohio State's 24-7 victory over USC in the Cotton Bowl.

First of quick apology. We did not do a Buckeye Talk pod yesterday as a final pre-game Buckeye Talk

podcast and why did we not do that, Landis? They had Media Olympics in the Hospitality Suite here and there were prizes and

games to be won and glory to be had. So we skipped the podcast. I don't think we

realize that we were skipping the podcast while we were winning metals and and

Claiming glory, but yeah, sorry didn't have him. I I you were supposed to say the thing about how we work so hard we didn't have time to do it because we weren't working so hard.

Oh yeah, no that wasn't the case.

And we got tired after working so hard?

Nope.

Nope, okay. So we didn't do it, but we're doing it now. We have more questions from you guys that still apply to this. We'll talk about the game briefly, but we want to talk about the future. We want to talk about if Ohio State will be better in 2018 than it was in 2017.

In 2017 was pretty good. 12 and 2 here's a stat that's interesting.

J.K. Dobbins brought this up before the game I wrote about it a little bit.

He didn't bring up all these stats.

These guys don't know stats.

That's the only reason we're here anymore is to look up stats.

So Ohio State avoided with this win Ohio State avoided what would have been its third

season in the last 13 with at least three losses. So they won, they finished 12

and 2 and that means since 2004 when they went 8 and 4 and 2004,

since then they've only lost three games or more twice, which is unbelievable.

One is the 2008 season when all those juniors came back for a final run

after consecutive national title game losses and James Lelrenitis and Malcolm Jenkins and Brian Robiski and Alex Boone and all those

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