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Welcome back to your Thursday, Buckeye Talk, Ducley, Morning State, Ferris, Stephen Mays, we talk to Nathan, 20 Ohio State Buckeyes players on Wednesday, a true bowl media day in Columbus before everybody heads to Atlanta.

Everybody knows the schedule, last practice for Ohio State will be on the 21st, and then they are expected to be in Atlanta on Christmas night.

So local players, there will be a team charter that leaves from Columbus on Christmas afternoon, Christmas evening, and many players will take that, but the far flung players, this is always the case in bowl season.

You get money for the bowl that you can just fly from where you are. So CJ Stroud, if he's going to LA, and I don't know if he is, doesn't have to fly from there to Columbus and then to Atlanta, right?

If you're going to Texas, if you're going to Florida, you can go straight from home to the bowl site that flight is paid for you.

So 21st, last practice, which also coincidentally is National Signing Day, 25th, they will be their stuff picks up on the 26th. Nathan, 20 guys to talk to, pretty good, pretty good.

That was like, and like 20 real dudes, we talked to like maybe the 20 most interesting and important players on this roster.

Great selection. It was, it was fantastic. And I thought for all the things that we wanted to know about, get some injury intel, get some thoughts on Keenan Bailey.

Get some thoughts about what that week of dealing with the Michigan loss and leading into the pack 12 championship game was like.

There were just so many different things that we wanted to find out about, and I thought we got a great spectrum of perspectives from this whole roster.

Can I say, maybe I'm reading too deep into things, but that's part of what we do is read too deep into things.

I think we got the best two players at every spot outside of right guard, because Matthew Jones is hurt, and then we didn't get late in ransom, but we got the starting quarterback, starting running back, all three starting receivers, all the offensive lineman is that Matthew Jones, starting tied in,

Jack and JT are the best two defensive ends.

Tyron Vincent and Mike Hall are the best two defensive tackles, Tommy and Steel are the linebackers, and then Ronnie and Tanner are the other two safeties.

And then, and the reason I'm reading too into this is if that's the case, the two corners we got were cam Brown and Jordan Hancock.

Yeah, I wouldn't read into that is like Denzel Brooks not going to start in the peach bowl or anything.

Yeah, because I'm sure because they did request. I don't know if you guys got a bit.

I was asked who should come and I don't remember if I requested Burke, but I'm pretty sure I requested both Brown and Hancock because we needed to find out injury things about them that we didn't necessarily need to find out about Denzel.

Yeah, I'm not reading anything that Denzel Burk didn't talk, but I do think it mattered that we got we like we ran through the 22 projected starters.

Like you were saying, we got almost all of them. So that was good. We got to talk to the guys that matter about the game that matters.

And so let's start off with a little particular football. I had mentioned this on the bull preview pod that went up on Wednesday, but we have not talked about it.

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