Ohio State football's surprising Defensive MVP so far and other midseason awards

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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🗓️ 13 November 2020

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

It's the Friday edition of Buckeye Talk, which normally means predictions for Ohio State's game on Saturday. The Terrapins' coronavirus outbreak forced that game to be cancelled, however. So after picking three other Big Ten games -- where five of the six contests feature road favorites -- we moved on to recap the first half of the Ohio State season. We took Justin Fields out of consideration for Offensive MVP, so truly we and our Buckeye Talk texters were all voting for second place. Does one receiver deserve mention over the other, or is the second-most valuable Buckeye up front? On defense, what seemed like a wide-open field narrowed to two overwhelming winners from our texters. Safe to say neither of them would have garnered much support if we were predicting OSU's defensive MVP before the season. Who is Ohio State's most improved player in 2020, and who is poised for a breakout second half? Also, which player has left us scratching our heads, and what remains our biggest unanswered question about the Buckeyes? This podcast resets our understanding of OSU as the second half begins next Saturday against Indiana. Thanks as always for listening to Buckeye Talk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:26.7	welcome back to your Friday Buckeye Talk. This is going to be normal. Doug Lee Marie, Stephen Means and Nathan Baird. We're doing Big Ten picks.
1:30.0	We're doing Ohio State Mid-season Awards because in a pandemic year, 3-0 is mid-season.
1:38.0	That's kind of close at least, especially when you have a game canceled.
1:40.8	So we are not making an Ohio State Maryland pick. I almost thought about like, hey, let's make our pick if they would have had a game. What would your pick have been? But we don't have to think about fake stuff. We have enough trouble thinking about real stuff.
1:54.4	So we're each going to make three big ten picks. Then we sent out a survey to our loyal tech subscribers
2:02.2	with categories like offensive MVP defensive MVP most improved player
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