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We've just done about two hours of a podcast.

We just didn't happen to record it.

So we're going to try to capture that for you guys now.

This is Buckeye Talk.

This is Doug Le Maurice.

We're here with Ari Wasserman and Bill Landis.

We don't know exactly what to bring you people because Ohio State is not in the Big Ten

Championship game and we have already made our thoughts about Ohio State and

the college football playoff pretty clear but we still have a lot of

playoff thoughts so what we were gonna try to do is try to think about the

committee we're not just gonna talk about Ohio State, but obviously

Ohio State fits into this a lot, but again we're in Ari's apartment and for about

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