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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Emergency Pod as Ohio State vs. Illinois is canceled: What does it mean for the Buckeyes?

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 November 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

The Ohio State football game at Illinois was canceled on Friday night after the Buckeyes had too many positive tests for coronavirus in the football program. That is the second game the Buckeyes are missing this season, after a previous cancellation because Maryland had positive tests. Nathan Baird made it to Champaign while preparing to cover the game Saturday, while Doug Lesmerises stayed in his basement. After the news that the game was off, they got together for an emergency podcast to discuss why it was canceled, whether next week's game vs. Michigan State will be played, and what this all means for Ohio State's season and playoff chances. Read cleveland.com/osu for continuing updates on the Buckeyes and subscribe to a free trial of text messages for direct info on the team by texting 614-350-3315. 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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0:49.0

Hey, hey, come on in.

0:56.0

Welcome back to Buckeye Talk.

0:57.0

It's after midnight Doug Le Maurice in my basement in Ohio,

1:00.0

Nathan Baird in Champaign, Illinois, where there will not be a game on Saturday.

1:04.2

The Ohio State Illinois game canceled.

1:06.0

Of course, you know that as you listen to this.

1:08.2

We're going to talk about what we know, why it happened, what's next for the Ohio State

1:11.6

Buckeyes.

1:12.4

We're going to try to keep it tight and as we gather more information if we hear things Saturday if there's more news Saturday we will come back into another pod. So we're going to keep you guys updated. We appreciate you listening to

1:23.4

Buckeye Talk. Nathan is in Champaign. Let's talk about what we know. On Friday afternoon, Ohio State said they're going to do more

1:32.1

coronavirus testing, but the plan still at that

1:34.7

point was for Ohio State to fly to Champaign on Saturday morning. We were all

1:38.6

thinking about logistics. How can they do it? Well they'll leave around 8 a.m.

1:41.9

for the noon Eastern game and it's only an hour flight and it's a charter and then whatever it was 1030, 11 o'clock at night on Friday night. The fact that more positive cases were found in the round of testing Friday afternoon is what put this over the edge and Nathan just to be frank with people like that part of it does not seem like great news to me.

2:04.4

That there has been daily testing and over the last couple days at least,

2:10.3

they have gathered more and more positive tests, including head coach Ryan Day,

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