Ep. 285: Illinois preview, and what factors are most responsible for an Ohio State upset loss?

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🗓️ 15 July 2020

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Our preview of Ohio State's 2020 schedule continues with a breakdown of Illinois with Bob Asmussen of the Champaign News-Gazette. But this Buckeye Tall Big Wednesday pod goes in-depth to explore big upsets. iI's a phenomenon Ohio State football rarely experiences, but when those days come around, they tend to linger in the memories of players, coaches and fans for years after. When we say upsets, we don't mean losing as a betting line favorite. We mean a ranked Ohio State team losing to an unranked team in a completely unexpected fashion. Aided by our Buckeye Talk Subtext subscribers, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means look at the various elements that set the stage for upsets and look for common denominators. Also, each of us picks which opponent on OSU's known schedule is the biggest threat to spring an upset in 2020. Baird and Asmussen, a Big Ten beat writer since 1996, discuss the uncertain future ahead due to COVID-19 and what the Big Ten might be able to do to salvage a season. They also delve into the continuing Lovie Smith rebuild -- what last season's turnaround to bowl eligibility meant, and where the Illini still must improve to make a jump. Thanks as always 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, 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 to
0:30.0	the buck I talk. I'm Nathan Baird with Cleveland.com here with Stephen Means and
0:34.7	Doug Lamerise it's July but we're already talking the big upsets of college
0:42.2	football right now some might consider having the big upsets of college football.
0:43.2	Right now, some might consider having college football
0:45.6	to be a bit of an upset as we look ahead
0:48.5	through the mess that we're in right now.
0:50.7	But we're looking at the Ohio State schedule.
0:53.3	We've been breaking those down week by week.
0:54.8	This week, the game up next is Ohio State at Illinois.
0:59.2	It's the week before the big game,
1:01.2	the week before Ohio State is scheduled to play Michigan at Ohio Stadium.
1:05.0	Obviously road games against Big Ten West teams, especially ones who maybe aren't expected to be that good or
1:11.3	aren't having that great of a season, kind of middle of the pack at best, are ones that have tripped
1:15.9	Ohio State up in its recent history. And I'm not necessarily predicting that against the
1:20.5	Alignai this year, but I thought it was worthwhile. We thought it was worthwhile to bring that up as the framework for a discussion about upsets.
1:30.0	What are the factors that lead to an Ohio State upset and by upset also we're not talking about oh they were favored to be
1:38.1	to win at Michigan by a point and a half and they lost on a last second field well not a betting upset like Ohio
1:44.0	State's ranked the other team is unranked they get smacked in the mouth something
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