It is Tuesday, December 28th.

We are three days away from the college football playoff and four days away from the

buck eyes match up in a rose bowl.

We're going to break down the rose bowl first because of the news of the opt-outs for

some of the buck eyes.

Chris Olave, Garrett Wilson, Haskell Garrett and Nick Petit Freer have announced they are

not playing in the bowl game.

So I want to talk about kind of the culture of college football and what these bowl games,

quote unquote insignificant bowl games mean.

And I just want to try to help reset your mindset as you view the impact and meaning of

these bowl games because I think that if we shift our mindset and what we expect and

think about these bowl games, they can actually be pretty cool because they've definitely

changed.

I mean, 10 years ago the rose bowl would have been a huge game for Ohio State in this

situation, which now people are viewing it as not a big game.

And I think that's a mistake because it is a big game for different reasons.

But I want to talk about that.

We're going to talk about this Utah team.

What I see when I just study their film and who they are and what Ohio State needs to

do, especially with the departure of two of their top three offensive weapons in

Garrett Wilson, Chris Olave and will CJ Stroud kind of have an improvement and uptick in

performance after the Heisman snub quote unquote, he was disrespected finishing fourth

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