Grading the Buckeyes after three games | Predicting the P4 conference champs

Bucknuts Morning 5: An Ohio State athletics podcast

247Sports

Football, Basketball, Sports

4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Ohio State heads into its first off week of the season with the No. 1 ranking in the country. Fresh off a 2024 national championship, things are good in Columbus. At the quarter-mark of the regular season, what grade would we give the Buckeyes in these categories: offense, defense and special teams? Also, who are our picks to win the Big Ten, SEC, ACC and Big 12 championships? Jonah Booker and Dave Biddle discuss that and much more on the Friday 5ish. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The
0:07.0	The Good morning Bucknutters welcome to the Bucknutt's morning 5 here on Friday, September 19th, 2025.
0:32.3	I am Dave Biddle.
0:33.1	I'm very happy joined by Jonah Booker.
0:35.5	It's not really BTA Fridays today. There's no game tomorrow for
0:38.6	the Buckeyes. It's going to be my butt on couch tomorrow, though. I'll tell you that.
0:43.0	That's going to be nice just watching some football all day. How are you doing this morning,
0:46.0	J.B? I'm doing well. And yourself is Friday. And we finally got some rain out here in Arizona,
0:51.8	man. It was a beautiful thing. So I wake up this morning
0:55.4	and there's some clouds and I'm just like, the summer is finally over and fall is finally
1:02.4	here for us out here on the West Coast. You can get under 100 each day. So yeah, I mean,
1:07.5	like we haven't had any rain here in like Columbus, Columbus in forever. Like, my grass is brown.
1:28.9	So, hey, less times for me to have to mow the grass. I'm not complaining too much. All right. So let's get into it. We're going to have a little fun on today's show. We're going to bounce around a lot. We're going to give our best bet for the college football weekend. We might start off doing that. And then we're going to give our quarter year grades for the Buckeyes.
1:28.1	Offense, defense, special teams. How do we grade the Buckeyes a quarter of the way
1:33.9	through the regular season? We'll give our offensive MVP or defensive MVP. We'll look around
1:39.1	college football. I'll give our picks for the champions of the four power four conferences.
1:43.8	And we'll take a look at Michigan at Nebraska, Illinois, at Indiana, a couple of big games in the big 10. All right, let's start with our best bet of the week. Man, I'm teetering back and forth between two here. I'm teetering back and forth between under 23.5 points tonight, Iowa at Rutgers, under 23 and a half. But I think I'm going to go with is my official best bet. I know. Final answer. Texas Tech plus three and a half at Utah. Okay. Texas Tech plus three and a half at Utah is my best bet. There you go. When you say under 23 and a half, are you talking about first half? First half.
2:18.3	Okay.
2:20.8	Iowa at Rutgers first half, but that's my runner up.
2:21.5	That's not my official. But I like Iowa at Rutgers under 23 and a half in the first half.
2:26.2	Yeah.
2:26.5	And to recap for last week, we both hit our best bet.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from 247Sports, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of 247Sports and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.