Keys to Victory for Ohio State Football's Big Test at Washington

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Menace 2 Sports with Zach Smith

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🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 105 minutes

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🔥 Keys to Victory | Ohio State Football's Big Test at Washington 🔥

The Ohio State Buckeyes face one of their toughest road challenges of the season as they head west to battle the Washington Huskies. With Ryan Day's team eyeing a College Football Playoff run, this matchup will test the Buckeyes in every phase of the game. Can Ohio State handle the noise, the pressure, and a high-powered Washington team?

In this episode, we break down:

The offensive keys for Ohio State, including QB Julian Sayin and star WR Jeremiah Smith
How Ryan Day and Brian Hartline can scheme to attack Washington's secondary
The importance of the Buckeyes' run game and offensive line protection on the road
Defensive adjustments under Matt Patricia to contain Washington's playmakers
Why discipline, turnovers, and big-play execution will decide the game

Whether you're a die-hard member of Buckeye Nation, a Washington fan, or just love high-stakes college football, this is your must-watch preview of Ohio State's keys to victory.

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0:00.0	It is Friday, September 26th. We got football tomorrow. Huge football day. Holy shit. We broke down the national landscape, really just the SEC. I should just say it that way. We broke down the SEC yesterday. We'll break down the Big Ten today. Remember what we used to call it SEC Thursdays on the show? We did. Back when it was a morning show for the really long-time listeners. Yes, it's generally what we do. Monday, we recap the Midwest games. Tuesday, recap the national or SEC games. Wednesday's kind of the catch-all national state of college football. And most of the news breaks, usually Monday, Tuesday that we talk about Wednesday. Yeah, you got a lot of press conference shit.
0:56.8	The pressers. Thursday, we preview the SEC games. Friday, we preview the Big Ten games. So we're going to preview Oregon, Penn State, preview Ohio State Washington. There are some good games this weekend, and we're going to talk about them. How's your week been, Chris? Really good, man. This was one of the weeks I had circled at the beginning of the year, a lot of really good football.
0:56.0	And I'm excited. and we're going to talk about them. How's your week been, Chris? Really good, man. This was one of the weeks I had circled at the beginning of the year,
0:56.8	a lot of really good football. And I'm excited for the good football, I guess. So, no, I'm thrilled. I'm really excited, happy with where we're at. And honestly, like, tomorrow can't come soon enough. And it feels like a year since we saw Ohio State play football, dude. It feels like so long.
1:09.6	It really does.
1:10.6	It's kind of wild actually because only one by week, but it's like...
1:14.0	Yeah, but every's like... Every year that buy week feels like that, though. Yeah, it does, but it's usually not this early. No, usually it's week six. And Michigan's on a buy this week, I believe. Right? Because who do they have after the buy? Not that it really matters right now. I have no idea. But I saw Michigan people talk about it because Michigan's spending their buy trolling Ohio State for about last year still. Oh yeah. Which I don't know if that's okay or not, but always. Always get a troll. But anyway, how's your week? It's been good. Good. Quinn's team finished, uh, they had three games this week. They finished three and oh. So they are, Hold on. Let me get this right. 13 and 0.
1:48.0	Okay. finished they had three games this week they finished three and oh so they are hold on let me get this right 12 13 and oh this year which makes them 31 and oh in middle school are you saying
1:52.8	she's the tape martel of high school or middle school volleyball no no what do you mean a tape
1:58.9	wait a second we can do we can dog tape martel the college player and the non-pro player.
2:04.4	But Tate Martel, the fucking high school player was a dude, man.
2:10.8	But I guess it's fair. Tathan does have a little bit of a stigma to his name.
2:14.9	He was a high school, All-American.
2:17.2	And that was his height of his fucking career. And I just accomplishment. I really wasn't trying to disrespect to Quinn. I was more talking about like the never losing in high school thing. Yeah. I mean, yeah, they're ridiculous. They're dominant. Because I remember I went to the final game last year, and they went fucking belt ass. There was no drama at all. No. It was a coronation, much like Ohio State Notre Dame. It was like, let's get it going.
2:36.8	Yeah, they, uh. And Bell Tass. There was no drama at all. No. It was a coronation, much like Ohio's at Notre Dame.
2:35.3	It was like, let's get it going. Yeah, they have two regular season games left Monday, Wednesday, next week. And then the tournament, I think, starts Thursday. They have like an end of the year tournament. So they're trying to finish it off. 36 and 0 was their goal. See if they can do it. but that was pretty much it.
2:49.9	And then some film rooms and obviously the show,
2:52.6	that's it.
2:53.3	Yeah.
2:54.2	Heck yeah. All right. Let's get it going. I'm going to give you a coach report. Oh, I'm excited. Are you giving picks in your coach report or be giving picks afterwards? No, I don't see if I don't know. You don't really, you don't really do a lot of the picks anyway. I usually give you my thoughts on who I think is going to win,
3:08.8	but just for the games that I'm going to talk about,
3:10.7	we can do full picks later in the show. Yeah, no, no. I'm excited because obviously, like, I'm rolling with the guys this weekend. Oh, it's going to be fun. It is for me. But a question in the chat. We all know who most of you, if not all of you,
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