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Buckeyes are in the playoff, Buckeye talk edition, dropping this probably Monday morning, maybe a little bit Sunday night.

Doug Lamarie is Nathan Bader and Steven Means officially revealed on Sunday afternoon to no surprise that Ohio State is the number 14 in the playoff, you guys know that the plan Georgia in Atlanta, you guys know that

Nathan Baderd, when you were watching the reveal, did you have any like, hmm, like TCU pops up at number three, so we know TCU's in, did you have any

like, I wonder if the committee could possibly put a banner where you're like, no, it's Ohio State. No, I thought the one team that might get jobs would be TCU. If the committee wanted to mess around with that, but even that I thought was unlikely, I even wrote a post for the site on Saturday as all this stuff was going down where people there, you know, I know there was some SEC thought out there and certainly Nick Sabin was trying to do his sell job on ESPN live during the game.

Last night or Saturday night, but it just wasn't there. I remember didn't have the wins, you don't have, I mean, the quality of wins. There's not much there.

So we create this world, Steven, same for you, like, of course, Ohio State slam dunk, did you wake up Sunday morning, like this is locked in.

Yeah, I felt that way after Friday's game. And the only way I thought they wouldn't be number four is this TCU got blown off the field in the moment that game was competitive. I'm like, OK, we know who the top four teams are. They haven't put a two loss team in yet and I doubt they would start this year.

OK, so we are in this world where they are now going into the belly of the beast. Do you guys know how far it is from the University of Georgia to Mercedes Ben Stadium in Atlanta, Georgia?

Our entire minutes.

That's right. Did you know the top of your head? Are you looked it up?

Well, I looked it up. Yeah, OK, so seven minutes, like one hour.

Yeah, I've never looked it up. Yeah, I looked it up yesterday because I was just wondering how crazy it was. But yeah, I looked it up.

So this is a backyard thing. Is this Nathan? Is this a

An unbelievable test that Ohio State has to basically go play a road game in SEC country. Listen, they beat Vama in SEC country. We're going to wind up I think on this podcast. Listen, people.

We have three and a half weeks to talk about football. The three of us are going to be in Atlanta for this game. The first teams will arrive on December 26th.

We will begin interviews on December 27th. We'll have offense defense and then defense offense on the 27th and 28th. There's a media day on the 29th.

The 30th, the coaches talk and the game is on the 31st. That's the schedule. We will all be there. There is a ton of football to do Nathan.

So I think what we're trying to do here is sort of like the reaction that we got. We talked to Ryan Day for about half an hour in a news conference on Sunday afternoon. We want to do a little bit like a motion on this. So part of the emotion is like, all right, good luck.

You're going down there to play them in their place. I don't know how different that is than playing Bama in New Orleans. I mean, obviously it's closer, but it's it's an SEC team in SEC country.

How does that factor into this game? Do you think Nathan?

I think it's got a factor at least a little bit in theory, but I also think as we were discussing it, you may want to expound on this more. It was more your idea having covered this team for longer, but just how much it might actually benefit Ohio State to get away and play and out in Georgia's backyard and B.

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