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Buck I talk from Cleveland dot com Doug labories and we are running through the companion piece to two pods. We did last week. We are running through the 10 most dangerous. I think is the word we're going to use opponents for Ohio State in the 2023 regular season. We did the 10 most important buck guys last week. We did 10 through six and then we did five through one. And this is just going to be me with the list that I put some time into to compile. It's a mix of players and code.

And here's the reference point for this. When I think of Ohio State's regular season losses most of the time. And I think you can do it to most of the time you can point to somebody. You can find the coach. You can find the player that caused it not all by himself. But man, you sure can give a lot of credit to a particular person.

So this is what guided my list this year of the 10 most dangerous opponents. So before we go forward, let's go back. And let's look at the last 10 regular season losses for Ohio State football in normal times, which means we don't count 2011 because there's no point in doing that.

There's a mean it's not in history books, but that's not what we're doing here. 2011 there, there's six and six in the regular season lose the ball game. We know what happened that year, right? Everybody got suspended Jim Tressel got fired.

So if you take out 2011, this is how good they've been in the regular season. You have to go back to 2010 to get the 10th loss. There's one in 22. This is regular season only. So we're not talking Georgia last year. We're not talking Clemson. We're not talking Alabama in the title game.

Because we're doing this for the regular season now, one in 22, two in 21, none in 20, none in 19, one in 18, two in 17, one in 16, one in 15, one in 14, none in 13, none in 12. We're not doing 11. So we go back to 10 and in nine of those 10 losses for Ohio State, I can point to somebody.

One or two games, there's multiple somebody's, but it's clear. Wow. This guy did something to the buck guys lost number 10, 10, 13 years ago, 2010, Ohio State's number one in the country.

They go to Wisconsin. They lose that was constant because David Gilruth returns the opening kickoff for a touchdown and the stadium camp Randall almost shakes off its foundation.

And he was a really good special teams player. So if you had gone into that game, it's okay. Well, you know, John Clay ran for a bunch of yards and they had James White who went on the NFL careers like a third down back.

Scott Tollsine was the quarterback, whatever, like, you know, BLM does this thing. But like, what's really going on there? You might have zeroed it on special teams. They've been like, well, you got to get away from this guy.

He takes the opening kickoff back. It says the entire tone for Wisconsin win. So I can point to that guy and feel pretty confident, hey, a guy like that should have been on the list that we're doing right now for you're doing this for 2010. I would have had him on the list. We would have.

2014, the Virginia Tech loss, it's Bud Foster, the defensive coordinator, who threw that bear defense at Ohio State. It's all the Ohio State coaches talked about afterward. It's a different front.

It's an it's an odd front look that confuses the past protection. And they just got after plug tolls. They got after JT bear it all day. The offense did nothing because Bud Foster, this really established veteran smart defensive coordinator for Virginia Tech.

Through a look at Ohio State, that the buck guys weren't expecting it messed up their blocking schemes the entire day. So you look at what else Virginia Tech did that day. It starts with Bud Foster. He would have been on the list. Hey, let's run through decent teams of Ohio States plan in 2014. Man, this is a veteran defensive coordinator who might have something for him.

So Bud Foster, that kind of guy. 2015, the Michigan State lost. There's nobody from that because Ohio State beat itself that night.

Ohio State's one of the four best teams in the country. I think you could certainly argue they're the best team in the country. All the talent back as defending champs. And they just can't get out of their own way. They mess up the quarterback situation all year, which lingers into the Michigan state loss.

It's rainy.

Honestly, if we're doing stuff for that game, we probably have mother nature on the list because it just was a little wet and they call the terrible game. They executed a terrible game. Yeah, Michigan State had a good defense that year.

And Tonyo is a foreign and Ohio State side. Maybe after what Ohio State did against Michigan State in the 2013 big 10 title game. And you're like, man, Antonio.

The Antonio knows the buckais is a former Ohio State defensive coordinator. Maybe I could put Antonio on this list. But really that was more about Ohio State losing. That was Ohio State did it to itself. So I don't have. It's the only game of the 10 of the last 10 regular season losses where I can't point to someone specifically.

If you want to argue, Antonio, I'll accept it. 2016 Penn State, they lose that Penn State. And I'm going to give this one to James Franklin.

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