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The Good morning Bucknotters, welcome to the Bucknuts Morning 5 here on Friday, October 10th, 2025.

I am Dave Biddle.

I'm joined by Jonah Booker, as usual on Fridays.

Good to see you as always, sir.

Good to see you as well.

Looking sharp over there.

You got anything big going on this morning?

I will be on live on CBS HQ and CBS Sports Network right around 11 o'clock.

So in about an hour, I'm going to be on HQ and CBS Sports Network talking Ohio State, Illinois, with our awesome Illinois reporter on 24-7 sports, Jeremy. So we're going to be on live talking Illa Buck. So looking forward to that. So let's get down to brass tax, my friend. All right, we know the drill. All right, I'll go three, two, one, and give my pick. And then you can, like, say your pick for Ohio State at Illinois tomorrow. First time they played in eight years, which is kind of crazy. All right, here we go. Three, two, one. Buckeyes, 34, 14. We're pretty close. Yeah. I just, I'm going to stay true. I have 359 Ohio State.

I'm going to stay true to my credo that I'm not going to pick anybody to score double digits on this defense until someone does.

We're pretty close, though.

Say yours again.

3414.

And it was so tough for me, too, Dave, and our staff prediction to even go over 10 points, like you said, the Vegas over and under

for Illinois team total, I think is like 17 and a half points, I believe, the last that I looked at

it. And the whole time I was thinking to myself, I was like, can this be the first time that

somebody cracks over 10 points? And this is how

I saw it played out. I thought that Illinois coming out with an opening script, I could see

them getting points on the opening script. And then from then on out, Ohio State controlling the game,

jumping out on them early.

Ohio State pulling their starters and then Illinois is getting a late garbage touchdown in the fourth quarter.

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