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Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

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Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

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4.81.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 November 2020

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

As of Friday morning, we are hearing it is all systems go for Ohio State's game at Illinois on Saturday (12 p.m. ET; FS1). Patrick Murphy joins Dave Biddle on today's show to give the latest on what we've been told, predictions for tomorrow's game and more.

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0:54.1

2020 I am Dave Fiddle. I am joined by Patrick Murphy.

0:57.0

All right, the biggest story that everybody wants to know about is the game on tomorrow.

1:00.9

Yes, as up now, the game is on tomorrow Ohio State at Illinois, high noon, eastern, and

1:06.3

Champaign, Illinois, so 11 a.m. local.

1:09.0

And we had heard on Wednesday that a few Ohio State players had contracted the coronavirus and but good news they

1:15.9

practice yesterday on Thanksgiving they're expected to leave for Champaign later today so that is

1:22.0

excellent news we will keep you posted.

1:23.5

Patrick Murphy, what are you hearing? What is the latest you are being told?

1:27.7

I think you summed it up pretty well right there. You know, there was obviously a concern on Wednesday after guys tested positive.

1:36.0

What they wanted to do was see, you know, after isolating those guys, quarantining whatever you want to call it,

1:42.3

following their protocol, you know, see if this, you know, expanded beyond those guys and if it was going to cost them a game.

1:51.0

You know, High State obviously has done everything within the team's power, players, coaches, I mean, we've talked about it plenty about the sacrifices that these guys have made to not let this thing become an issue. The fact that it hasn't become an issue before then for this team, I think is fairly impressive given what we see around the country. But, you know, some guys got it. And now it's about making sure that they didn't spread and so I think

2:17.2

Ohio State's being pretty cautious about this whole thing you know trying to you making sure obviously testing every day, but, you know, being careful about what they're doing.

2:27.7

But as you said, practice yesterday, obviously Ohio State tweeted out pictures from that practice.

2:33.0

So that's a really good sign.

2:34.4

Yeah, that to me at least without any official word

2:38.2

means that there were no or if any, very few positive test results and you know things are still moving forward as you said to play Saturday so you know we'll see what we hear today

2:51.6

I believe they test around 8.30 in the morning. So if anything

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