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Welcome back to Buckeye Talk at your game preview. It's Doug Laymarie, special guest, John

Steppi from the Cedar Rapids Gazette and the Gazette.com Nathan and Steven will be along

a little bit later, but we wanted to get on Iowa stuff first of all. And John, to be fair,

we'll start with the thing that Iowa does well, which is defense because we know it's not

offense. I am curious, Riley Moss, one of the best corners in the Big 10. I think if you're

going to try to slow down Ohio State, you have to cover how good is this guy? Put him

in context. He's been in all Big 10 player. How good is Riley Moss?

Well, Big 10 defensive back of the year, you see how he's not perfect. He's made some mistakes.

You look at Kentucky in the citrus bowl. It was kind of partially his mistake that led

to the big play that led to the go ahead touchdown. So he's not a perfect guy, but somebody

who early on in the season last year was a turnover machine. And really somebody that's

consistent. You see, especially earlier on this season this year, there weren't a ton

of opposing quarterbacks who are really challenging him frequently. So he's certainly a talented

guy. And I think the game changer this year, a little bit, is the guy on the other side

of him, Cooper DeGene, who sometimes plays Iowa's cash safety, just kind of a fancy way

of basically staying in nickel safety. So having Moss and DeGene both. So Moss oftentimes

plays that safety position. But because of injuries, it's quite a lot of corner. So this

is really the strength is this defense. And the secondary was a part that maybe would

have been a question mark going into the year. But when you have Moss coming back and

not pursuing the NFL draft, that was big. Having young guys like DeGene emerge, it really

is a spot where you see why Iowa priced itself on so many turnovers. They haven't forced

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