Ep. 1052 - No. 17 Illinois vs. No. 1 Ohio State preview with Patrick Murphy & Joey Wagner
Illini Inquirer Podcast: An Illinois Fighting Illini athletics podcast
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4.9 • 575 Ratings
🗓️ 8 October 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Jeremy Werner previews No. 17 Illinois vs. No. 1 Ohio State with Bucknuts' Patrick Murphy and Illini Inquirer's Joey Wagner. Murphy breaks down how Ryan Day has maintained Ohio State's national championship expectations despite losing both coordinators and 14 NFL Draft picks. Werner and Wagner then break down the Illinois side of the game, including players who must step up, what the game means for the Illini and how the coordinators will approach the Ohio State challenge.
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| 0:00.0 | Today on the Alignacquire podcast, let's get you ready for number one Ohio State coming to Champaign |
| 0:18.3 | to take on the number 17 ranked Illinois fighting |
| 0:22.1 | a line eye. |
| 0:23.7 | Ohio State, pretty dang good again. |
| 0:25.6 | One of national championship last year. |
| 0:28.0 | Look like they could make it two in a row with Ryan Day with the way they've played so |
| 0:31.1 | far. |
| 0:31.9 | Five and O start despite a new quarterback, despite a new offense coordinator and defense |
| 0:36.0 | coordinator, despite losing 14 NFL draft picks, the Buckeyes just reload. |
| 0:43.0 | Patrick Murphy, 24-7 sports, covers Ohio State for Bucknuts. |
| 0:47.0 | He'll join us to break down how they've handled all that transition so well. |
| 0:50.9 | What makes this defense so dominant that they're only allowing five points per game? |
| 0:55.5 | What's made Julian Sand so effective as the point guard of this really talented Ohio State |
| 1:01.1 | offense and what's this game mean for them? And then Joey Wagner joins me to break down our |
| 1:06.2 | six pack of questions. Answer a lot of things about Illinois at the midway point of the season, |
| 1:10.5 | as well as this |
| 1:11.7 | matchup against Illinois, what it means for the Illinois, Luke Altmire, and how they should |
| 1:16.7 | approach taking on Ohio State's elite offense and their elite defense. |
| 1:21.7 | We break that all down. |
| 1:22.6 | Get you ready for a rare opportunity, a ranked-unranked matchup against number one in Champaign. |
| 1:29.6 | These opportunities don't come around very often. Let's break it all down. Patrick Murphy joins us next |
| 1:34.8 | on the online inquire podcast. Like many of you, my wife and I, a little bit of coffee snobs. |
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