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Welcome back to Buckeye Talk. I'm Stephen Meese. That's Stefan Kreisick. That's Andrew Gillis.

We continue to work through our greatest Buckeye bracket. We've made it to the Elite 8 and we've made it to the final matchup of the Elite 8. It's the four or five game. It's a game that's always supposed to be

competitive, always supposed to go wire to wire, maybe even in overtime. We'll see what happens.

It's the Irvin-Myer Regional Championship game, the number four seed Chris Spielman,

linebacker from 1984 to 1987, and quarterback J.T. Barrett, a quarterback from 2013 through 2017.

Okay, so Stefan, it feels like with all these conversations so far when we're talking about

the accolades and stats, it's a lot of, hey, would you rather want your stats to look like this or would you rather have your accolades and stats look like that?

It's like both of these meals are good, but are you in the mood for Mexican food or Mediterranean food?

Do you want McDonald's or do you want Wendy's? Do you want Arby's or do you want Taco Bell?

If we're at Penn State and they're right next to each other at a hotel we're all staying at,

you two want Taco Bell and I want Arby's. I wonder which one we're going to pick today.

With Chris Spielman, I feel like it's more about dominance, while with J.T.

Barrett, it's maybe more about longevity. Yeah, no doubt, because you go up and down the board here

of their accolades. They're a ton, right? There's a lot of time. I mean, with J.T. You're talking

three-time, all Big Ten, Big Ten freshman of the year in 2014, three-time Big Ten quarterback of the year,

2016 Big Ten Most Valuable Player.

And he was only an All-American once, if I'm reading this correctly.

Yeah, 2014, he was a third-team All-American.

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