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How should Ohio State State football attack the transfer portal this offseason for 2026?

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Football, Sports

4.21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The transfer portal will officially open on Jan. 2, and Ohio State is expected to be in the market for talent. On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means and Stefan Krajisnik look at Ohio State's roster and what positions need portal help the most in 2026. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk and sign up to get text messages from experts Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis at 614-350-3315. Get the insider analysis, have your voice heard on the Buckeye Talk podcast and connect with the best Buckeye community out there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, where you've been?

0:17.1

Buckeye talk is about to begin.

0:20.4

Hey, hey, hey, come on then.

0:31.4

Welcome back to Buck I Talk. I am Stephen Means, and that's Stefan Krasnick, and this is a

0:34.9

Leave No Doubt pod, but we're not reviewing anything. We're not really answering that question. We are doing something now because we're quite frankly not sure if we're ever going to be able to do it if we don't do it in this small little window because Ohio State handled this business and made sure it got a buy in the first round of the college football playoff. Those games do start Friday and Saturday.

0:54.6

I think the Miami, Texas A&M game is at noon.

0:58.0

I think that's the noon game on Saturday.

1:00.6

I probably could have checked this before I press record.

1:03.6

But listen, we give it to you a brawl, man.

1:06.5

This is how you get it, man.

1:08.7

We're natural here.

1:09.6

We're not perfect so uh while step on

1:12.6

looks at 7 20th at noon yes okay so yes the noon game so by 4 30 on saturday we'll have

1:19.9

officially know who Ohio state is playing between Texas A&M and Miami which means this week gets to

1:26.9

be kind of offseasonseason look-ahead week to the future.

1:31.8

Stefan and I are going to be talking portal stuff today.

1:34.1

Gillis and I are going to be talking recruiting stuff tomorrow, and then later this week we'll

1:38.7

get more CFP focus.

1:40.6

We've got a couple of live shows coming at you this week because producer Brennan's around

1:44.1

for the long haul. I'm not going to get into the details of why that is, but just no, producer, Brennan, the guy who's been making the break, the guy who's been making the live show look good. He's going to be around for long haul. We're really excited about that. But the transfer portal opens on January 2nd and it closes on January 16. So there's a good chance that Ohio State season does not end

2:03.1

and the portal where they can, you know, add for the next year will have come and gone and they will

2:08.4

not have been able to really deep dive into it, at least not on this podcast. There are people

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