Welcome in to the flagship podcast.

It is Game Week, Texas and Ohio State.

One versus two in the coaches poll, three in the AP poll.

But no matter how you slice it, it is a top 10,

top five showdown.

In fact, every meeting between Texas and Ohio State has been a top 10 showdown.

I am Chip Brown of Horns 247.com, joined as always by Eric Henry of Horns 247.com.

And today we are joined by Patrick Murphy of Bucknuts.

Dot com, the Ohio State site on the preeminent 24-7 sports network.

Eric, Patrick, what a game.

We've got.

Eric, let me get your thoughts first as we head into this colossal showdown in Columbus 11 a.m. on Saturday on Fox,

Ohio State. And Fox wanted to move this game to Sunday night at the horseshoe. Texas said,

nah, we're okay. We're good on this. Eric, what's your level of excitement for this one?

Yeah,

Chip,

my level of excitement is, you know, on a scale of 1 to 10, it'd be, you know, a 50. Like, I don't know how to quantify it. I'm super fired up for this, you know, regular listeners of this show know my personal background, right, having spent six years covering group of five football.

It's a little bit different covering Texas, Ohio State,

number one, number three versus FIU Jack State in front of 800 people. So it's no disrespect to those programs. I've enjoyed that time. But come on, this is what you live for as a college football fan, what you get into this business to do. That's on a personal level or on a professional level, excuse me, on a personal level, I mean, you talk about all the

storylines and I don't want to take all of Pat's thunder. I'm sure he'll get into it as well,

but you come off a rematch of last year's college football playoff semifinal where Texas

just that close again for the second straight year, Chip, just that close to getting

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