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Welcome into a, it's not a special edition, because this is going to be a regular thing.

This is our Buckeye Talk recruiting show.

Maybe we'll come up with a fancier name.

Bill Landis from Cleveland.com here with Ari Wasserman.

This will be mostly about Ohio State football recruiting.

I'm sure we'll sprinkle in some basketball recruiting. Maybe every other week we'll do this as we get closer on National Signing Day.

Maybe we'll ramp it up and go every week as recruiting comes more to the forefront.

But right now with Ohio State still in season, We're going to do this every other week and we'll talk about Ohio State football recruiting in a bit. But first, Ari, I wanted to talk about something you wrote on Cleveland.com slash OSU that was up on Wednesday morning

about sleeping giants in college football, which I think is a fascinating conversation that doesn't quite pertain to Ohio State.

Obviously, we've spent like the last three weeks on our podcast in different ways talking about how awesome Ohio State is.

So this is a complete the different conversation about completely

the different programs, programs across the country that in our view should be

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