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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Jeremiah Smith, Brian Hartline and Ohio State's only offensive flaw

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Football, Sports

4.21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

It's been a while since we've done a rants pod, and an Ohio State bye week seems like the perfect time for one. On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means takes rants from the Subtext subscribers on a wide range of subjects, from Jeremiah Smith's usage, OSU's struggling run game and Brian Hartline as a playcaller. 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.

0:20.5

Hey, hey, hey, come on in. Ben, Buckeye Talk is about to begin.

0:24.9

Hey, hey, hey, come on in.

0:34.4

Welcome back to Buckeye Talk.

0:35.4

I'm Stephen Means. This is your Tuesday pod during Ohio State's second by week that returned to the field.

0:40.5

Next Saturday in place, Penn State, the game that obviously has lost some juice in comparison to where it was supposed to be heading into the preseason with Penn State losing its last four games and firing its head coach James Franklin.

0:52.0

Meanwhile, the Buckeyes are 7 and 0, 4 and 0 in Big 10 play and look like the foregone

0:56.8

conclusion best team in the country in our well positioned to not only repeat as national

1:00.9

champions, but also win the Big 10 for the first time since 2020 and it'll also be the third

1:06.4

time in Ronde's career.

1:07.7

If he does that, this is a rents pod.

1:12.1

It's been a while since we've done one of these pods,

1:14.9

and it just felt like the right time to do that.

1:17.5

That's what I'll think it's against 7 and 0, 4 and 0 in Big 10 play.

1:20.7

Five big 10 games left,

1:21.9

five regular season games left in a year,

1:24.0

where as long as they and Indiana take care of business given what their schedules look like, they're probably going to face each other as two 12 and no teams in the Big Ten championship game. But of course, Ohio State has a very big game against Michigan at the end of the next month. I'm still waiting for them. And that's probably the biggest question mark left about the Buckeyes. We used to on time listen to branch spot this is all about our texters to get the text 614 350 315

1:49.5

got a good amount of rant i want to get through some of them will overlap so if i'm going to read

1:55.7

the full rant for the sake of reading the full rant but if part of the rant is a subject I've already touched on,

2:02.0

I probably won't touch on it again.

2:03.6

I'll just leave it to be at that.

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