Daily Pod: Why Ezekiel Elliott is the favorite Ohio State player of this era

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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🗓️ 17 April 2020

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Our Favorite Modern Football Buckeye bracket is over, and on this Buckeye Talk daily episode, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means talk about Ezekiel Elliott's win over Troy Smith in the final voting. The OSU daily text subscribers decided everything during the 68-player bracket that divided players up on offense and defense and by whether they played in the Urban Meyer era or Jim Tressel era. Over a 19-year period, there were a lot of great Buckeyes to choose from. But Elliott was the odds-on favorite from the start, and the running back from the 2014 national champions knocked off the Heisman Trophy winner from 2006, as A.J. Hawk and Joey Bosa also reached the Final Four. On the pod, Doug, Nathan and Stephen talked about players that defined coaches, and the type of player that might define Ryan Day; they discussed what it means to be a favorite player vs. just a great player; and they debated how winning a title factors into a vote like this. The voting is over and this podcast wraps it up. Thanks for being a part of that and for listening to Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey. Hey, hey, hey, where you been?
0:17.0	Buck I talk is about to begin.
0:21.0	Hey, hey, come on in
0:25.0	welcome back to buck i talk from cleveland.com your favorite ohia state
0:30.4	football podcast dug lemarese, along with Stephen Means and Nathan Baird, your coverage
0:36.3	team. Covering the Fightingbuck guys for Cleveland.com. It's our Daily Friday podcast.
0:41.6	We're going to get into the results and the reasonings behind those
0:45.2	results of our favorite modern football Buckeye bracket. Started with
0:49.1	68 players, we're done. The text subscribers voted a million times. Some people loved it. Some people
0:55.2	were driven nuts by it, but it has officially ended and Ezekiel Elliot is the winner.
1:01.6	I have a lot of great comments from textures about why they
1:07.6	voted for different guys. Ezekiel-Ellet versus Troy Smith was our final, but I'll
1:11.4	start with you two, Stephen, the final of Troy Smith was our final, but I'll start with you two, Stephen, the final of Troy Smith
1:15.1	versus Ezekiel Elliot and then Ezekiel Elliot emerging as the winner, 54% to 46% in the final
1:22.3	voting. What did you think of that?
1:25.0	Not as not surprised. I think the national championship is probably the tiebreaker between the two.
1:32.0	Obviously, Troy Smith, the Highsman,
1:33.4	winning the hometown kid, but got blown out
1:36.2	in the National Championship game,
1:37.4	while Ezekiel Elliot probably has the best three-game
1:41.0	stretch of any Ohio State player when you're talking
1:44.0	Wisconsin game, Alabama game, Oregon game, so that right there I think is what
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