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Good morning Bucknotters. It is Tuesday October 12th, 2021. I am Dan Rubin. This is the Bucknotts

Morning 5 and change. If it's Tuesday, that can mean only one thing. Duane Long has joined us

from the capital city of Columbus. Duane, how goes it? Well, I guess it's going pretty good, Dan. I like

what I'm seeing on football field and that always makes my world a better place in the fall. We have

reached the halfway point of the regular season. Ohio State is five and one with six regular

season games remaining. They have the week off before hosting Indiana a week from Saturday.

So we're going to take stock of what we've seen so far. Ohio State is ranked six in the coaches

and the AP poll. I would venture a guest right now that Las Vegas neutral field rankings. There are

somewhere around three. My guess is Georgia and Alabama are one and two still in that ranking.

So let's go with this. Have your expectations for the buck eyes and they were lofty.

Been adjusted after six games. Yeah, but they've also been readjusted. I was

after the Oregon game. I was just I watched that game and I was like, what the hell are we trying to do?

People who have some knowledge of football sit back and watch it and say, what the hell's going on?

You have to say, what is the defensive coordinator of Ohio State doing that, you know, you got to,

they had to make a move, Dan. They had to. And then things have changed. We're so much better on

defense. You know, we still have some guys on the site arguing that we're still not a great defense.

Well, we're a good defense and we're getting better. I think we're playing younger guys

and I think that they're just better. Let's just be honest about guys that have not played a lot

are stepping in and showing that they need to play and the coaching staff has responded. They're

giving them more more time as the year goes on. You know, changing to the guard seemed to be

happening on defense. And then you look at offense and I don't know if, you know, this is something

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