Does the threat of a crushing regular-season defeat make college football more exciting?

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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🗓️ 16 September 2021

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

This big Thursday Buckeye Talk is a lot about feelings and a little about psychology. Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means have been digging into the football specfics and the potential on-field fallout from Ohio State's loss to Oregon since it happened Saturday. This is a little more big picture. With the help of the opinions and survey votes of text subscribers, Doug, Nathan and Stephen examine the feelings around a loss like this one. It hurts OSU fans, obviously. But is the threat of a devastating loss a critical component of what makes the college football regular season great? And how much would the feeling around a big loss change if there was a 12-team playoff and much more room for error in the regular season? Interesting answers, and some relevant and insightful opinions from the texters on this topic. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk. 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, where you been, but I talk is about to begin, hey, hey, hey, come on in.
0:25.3	Welcome back to the Thursday book I talk, Doug Liebering, Steve at Meetsup, Cleveland.com, and you know,
0:31.2	a buck I talk. I was on a radio show and they just said, I'm Doug a buck I talk. I'm like, yeah,
0:35.2	that's what I am. I'm Doug a buck I talk. Tulsa, I was on a radio show in Tulsa and I felt again,
0:42.0	in the case of, I mean, we all do radio shows and when we do, we are, for lack of a better word,
0:48.4	ambassadors of not the Ohio State program certainly, but of, you know, whatever, the general
0:54.3	vibe of Ohio State football because we're the people on a radio show in another city talking about
0:58.0	the team and we're supposed to be experts on them. And they were like, so, what's so Ohio State
1:04.5	say about Tulsa this week? And I was like, listen guys, no offense. We literally did not say the
1:14.4	word Tulsa in the Tuesday news conference from the only person we talked to was the head coach.
1:19.4	I am not telling you this so that like the entire city of Tulsa can like hang it on their private
1:24.9	bulletin boards and like, book eyes over. Look, it's like it's a fire drill here, man. Like it is not
1:29.5	about whoever is next. It's not about who that at all right now. It's about what happened before.
1:36.0	So no offense to the fine people of Tulsa. And I think it was like a new sports talk radio station.
1:41.4	They started like last week and they were all excited. So good luck to those guys.
1:44.4	Did a good job. Exciting. So here's what we're going to do. Nathan, do you believe I think it's hard
1:50.8	because it doesn't happen very often at Ohio State. I always wonder like what the line is between
1:56.5	rehashing a loss, looking for information about the loss. And what most importantly,
2:01.1	what the loss means for what's next, using the loss for information. And also like not beating
2:07.8	it the death that we go five days a week on this podcast. I mean, we talk long. It's like seven to
2:12.9	eight hours of podcasting every week. We probably don't need eight hours on boy, the linebackers
2:20.5	were out of position against Oregon, right? So we are going big picture here today. We are,
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