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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Julian Sayin, Arch Manning and setting expectations for Ohio State’s game against Texas

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Football, Sports

4.21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State isn't going to win the national championship on Saturday, but a matchup with Texas can at least start to inform us of whether it's possible. Win or lose, OSU has a chance at least to flash what its ceiling might be by the time the College Football Playoff arrives. On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means reaches out to the Subtext subscribers, asking what they want to see from their team in Week 1. 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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0:39.3

Buckeye Talk is about to begin.

0:42.7

Hey, hey, hey, come on in.

0:53.2

Welcome back to Bucket Talk.

0:54.9

I am your host, Stephen Means.

0:56.5

The season is officially back.

0:58.7

Game Week is upon us.

0:59.9

Ohio State, the number three team in the country to start the season.

1:02.6

We'll face Texas, the number one team in the country to start the season at noon.

1:06.5

Inside the Shoe, it's rematch of the college football playoff semi-final cotton bowl where Ohio

1:11.7

State won that game, 28 to 14. We kicked off the week yesterday with our final market down Monday

1:17.7

pod talking Ohio State's record, talking about the college football playoff and how we thought

1:21.6

things might play out. And now we're getting our textures involved, 614-350-3-3-1-5. It's a two-week free trial, 399, after that.

1:44.4

Because there's not a better way to start off the season. I sent out our text Sunday evening to our texters asking for rants. Per the usual, we typically do these every few Tuesdays or so where we do these. where we typically just let you try to run with the rants, but sometimes I do want to focus it in just for the sake of having some sense of structure. So that's what I did this time around. Obviously, you're an Ohio State fan. You want to see Ohio State beat Texas. That's the number one thing. But I did ask them, what's something you want to see from Ohio State on Saturday that could strengthen your belief that this team can slash will win back-to-back national championships.

1:45.1

And I got a lot of... want to see from Ohio State on Saturday that could strengthen your belief that this team can

2:01.0

slash will win back-to-back national championships.

2:04.4

And I got a lot of different responses to that.

2:07.0

I tried to group them.

2:08.4

There's quarterback stuff.

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