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The Good morning. Bucknutters, welcome to the Bucknuts Morning 5 here on Wednesday, November 12th,

2025. I am Dave Biddle, very happy, joined by Matt Baxendell.

All right, champ, no surprise, the Buckeye stayed number one in the college football

playoff rankings that were released last night, the second iteration of this year's

rankings.

I was wondering what would happen at 2, 3, like a lot of people were.

They left Indiana at 2, kept Texas A&M at 3.

My question for you, and I'll then answer it next.

I encourage everybody in the chat to give their answers. And you can't just say one, because I think we all want to say, how many legit national title contenders are there? There's just one, right? And I do think Ohio State is in a tier by itself, facts. But how many, if you look at it right now, how many legit national title contenders

do you think there are this year? Well, this starts with the caveat that someone has to beat

Ohio State for there to be more than one. So let's start there. I'm going to get this out of

the way before all the commenters and everybody watching goes, you know, gets all mad.

Ohio State has to lose to someone for the rest of this list of matter because right now they look like the clear class of the country to me um but going down the college football playoff top

ten list essentially at this point uh i buy indiana i know that they had a uh tough game at State, but let's face it, Penn State is extremely talented.

There's a reason that team was number one in the country, right?

I'm not surprised that they tried their butts off to try to compete in that football game against Indiana.

I'm also not surprised that Indiana is ranked ahead of Texas A&M.

I don't believe Texas A&M is a national title contender.

Here's why.

Who have they beaten?

Seriously, who have they beaten?

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