Welcome back to Buckeye Talk. We are talking Ohio State football and this is our Ohio State Michigan preview Doug Leamoree

from Cleveland.com with Bill Landis and Ari Wasserman.

We started previewing Ohio State Michigan early because Ohio State Michigan now play Thanksgiving

week and people eat and they shop and we want to give this game the full weight it deserves.

So you might be listening to this the weekend before.

You might be catching up to it during actual Ohio State Michigan

week.

We are talking about this before Ohio State played

Michigan State and before Michigan played Indiana because we don't think those two

games mattered. So if Indiana beat Michigan or Michigan State Ohio State, you that now, and if you're listening to it later, and we don't know that now as we're talking about it, but we don't think that's going to happen.

Can I get something off my chest? Sure. A lot of people are like worried or talking to us on... I don't know if you

guys got this a lot, but I got a lot of... We have to focus on Michigan State. We

aren't preparing for Michigan State. We write interesting stories that you want to read and our coverage of the game is not an

implication that Ohio State is not preparing for their next opponent.

They're definitely preparing for their next opponent because they've been incredibly

boring this week.

And we just are talking about what we find more interesting.

It is not a disrespectful.

We're disrespecting.

I personally, I dug, I'm disrespecting Michigan State this week but are you watching film and helping Ohio State win there's no correlation

Everybody that's all I know what Ohio State yeah yeah yeah if I I me I dug who have written wonderful things about Michigan State and talk about how they're a better rival for Ohio State than Michigan is and I praise Mark Antonio and Ari you've written great recruiting things and Bill

you've we've written a ton of things about how great Michigan State is right now this

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