Ep. 294: Big Ten football is back! Is Ohio State still a national championship contender?

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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🗓️ 16 September 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

The long-awaited word officially came Wednesday morning. The Big Ten Conference has reversed course and will attempt to play a fall season beginning the Oct. 23-24 weekend. Ohio State does not yet know the layout of its eight-game schedule, but it knows it again has a chance to earn its was into the College Football Playoff. Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means discussed what the news means for the Buckeyes' potential opt-outs, where they believe the OSU-Michigan game should go on the new schedule, how this affects the College Football Playoff picture and so much more. Also, how far did Wednesday's announcement go in repairing Big Ten Commissioner's Kevin Warren's reputation. And is Ohio State still the same national championship contender it was in the preseason, considering it may not have two preseason All-Americans this fall? 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, 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 in.
0:35.0	Welcome back to Big Ten Fall Football. It's back, you know it's back.
0:37.0	It's the emergency pod that we've all been waiting for.
0:39.5	Finally, the word has come down,
0:41.0	and we need to talk about it on Buckeye Talk. Doug Leamore, Stephen means Nathan Baird. October 23rd and 24th will be the restart of Big Ten football. It happened finally the announcement on Wednesday morning.
0:53.0	Maybe people had thought, maybe October 17th, I actually think the 24th that weekend is smarter.
0:59.0	You don't want to rush this kind of thing.
1:01.0	We have talked to Kevin Warren and the Big Ten leadership on a Zoom call. We have talked to Jean Smith and Christina Johnson on a Zoom call. We have information. We have more than 230 questions from tech subscribers.
1:14.7	So if we're gonna get to all of them,
1:16.2	I gotta talk fast, because I'm not gonna talk short.
1:19.8	We're not gonna go super crazy on this emergency pod
1:22.2	because then we're gonna record again Wednesday night and come back with our Thursday morning pod.
1:26.0	But this is the Wednesday pod. It is the return of Big Ten football. We ask for those questions. Let's get right to them. Many of them are similar and we can't get to
1:36.1	everybody but we appreciate everyone who chimed in and we will start with from the 614. I'm sure everyone is asking but what are the odds that Wyatt Davis and Sean Wade opt back in?
1:48.0	Nathan, we just saw Sean Wade on ESPN. This came up. And I forgot to say we got Ryan Day on the call too.
1:54.4	This came up with both Ryan Day and Gene Smith asked specifically about it on the Zoom call.
2:01.0	So we want the facts, let us know what the facts are, what people said, but let's also try to read the tea leaves a little bit on whether there's a shot of these two all American candidates planned for Ohio State in October.
2:13.0	So the first group you heard from were Gene Smith and Ryan Day, who both said that they,
2:18.0	it's open for them to come back. They think they should be allowed to come back if they want to come back.
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