Ohio State's College Football Playoff seed and what's up with Brian Hartline

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Ohio State's path to a national title is set with the release of the 12-team College Football Playoff bracket. The second-seeded OSU has earned a bye in the first round and will face the winner between Texas A&M and Miami in the Cotton Bowl. Head coach Ryan Day discussed the matchup for the first time while reacting to his team's seed. On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis discuss Ohio State's playoff path and what Day had to say about it. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk and sign up to get text messages from experts Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis at 614-350-3315. Get the insider analysis, have your voice heard on the Buckeye Talk podcast and connect with the best Buckeye community out there.path to a national title is set with the release of the 12-team College Football Playoff bracket. The second-seeded OSU has earned a bye in the first round and will face the winner between Texas A&M and Miami in the Cotton. Head coach Ryan Day discussed the matchup for the first time while reacting to his team's seed. On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis discuss Ohio State's playoff path and what Day had to say about it. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk and sign up to get text messages from experts Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis at 614-350-3315. Get the insider analysis, have your voice heard on the Buckeye Talk podcast and connect with the best Buckeye community out there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, where you've been?
0:17.1	Buckeye talk is about to begin.
0:20.4	Hey, hey, hey is about to begin.
0:24.8	Hey, hey, hey, come on, man.
0:32.4	Welcome back to Bucket Talk.
0:33.1	I'm Stephen Means.
0:35.1	That's the fun Christink, and that is Andrew Gillis.
0:37.8	Ohio State officially has its destination for the college football playoffs, but it does not yet have an opponent. It'll have to wait a little bit
0:42.3	longer for that. The Buckeyes, after their 13 to 10 loss to Indiana in the Big Ten championship
0:47.4	game, I mean, Indiana is the only remaining undefeated team in college football. They will be
0:52.9	the number one seed, though the
0:54.7	committee clearly impressed by what they saw from both teams who were considered the top two teams
0:59.3	in the country in the Big Ten championship game. Oh, Haasid only drops one spot. They had been number
1:04.2	one in every single ranking until now. Now they're number two. And they will wait at the Cotton Bowl
1:09.3	for the winner of the Texas and Miami game for their
1:13.9	opponent. If they win, if things are awash, they'll play Georgia and the Fiesta Bowl and maybe
1:19.0	Indiana will be waiting for them in Miami in the national championship game. Stefan, when you look
1:24.1	at Ohio State's draw and their path to the college football playoff,
1:28.9	I guess we can start there. What do you think about their chances of repeating? In fact,
1:33.2	I gave a survey to our text, there's 614-3-0-3-1-5, and I literally asked them this question,
1:38.3	now that you know the path, how far do you predict Ohio State to go? Quarter-final,
1:42.1	semi-final, national championship game and national champions.
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