Ohio State’s defense vs. Miami’s offense: Breaking down Carson Beck, Caleb Downs and more

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🗓️ 26 December 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis are offering their first in-depth breakdown of the matchup between the Ohio State Buckeyes and the Miami Hurricanes in the College Football Playoff. This one is Ohio State’s defense vs. Miami’s offense. 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, come on in. Ben, Buckeye Talk is about to begin.
0:24.8	Hey, hey, hey, come on, man.
0:33.2	Welcome back to Buckeye Talk.
0:34.1	I'm Stephen Means.
0:35.7	That's Defon Christ, Nick, and that's Andrew Gill.
0:39.6	Let's help you out a wonderful Christmas Christmas because now it's all about football.
0:45.6	The holidays are over in terms of the Ohio State world until we see what happened on December 31st when they play Miami in the Cotton Bowl for a chance to get to the Fiesta Bowl and play
0:50.4	the winner of Georgia and Ole Miss.
0:53.4	As we did yesterday, this is our continued breakdown of both sides of the ball Ole Miss, as we did yesterday.
0:54.7	This is our continued breakdown of both sides of the ball.
0:56.8	Yesterday, we do Ohio State's offense versus Miami's defense.
1:00.3	Today, we're flipping sides, and it's Miami's defense, excuse me,
1:04.1	Miami's offense against Ohio State's defense.
1:06.6	And just like we did yesterday, it's the same category.
1:08.5	It's quarterback slash offensive coordinator versus defensive coordinator. It's the skill position to why receiver and tight in versus the
1:14.9	BBs and then the offensive line versus the defensive line, which of course can also turn into
1:19.3	a run game conversation if we want to have that in that situation. Let's start with
1:25.3	Miami quarterback and offensive coordinator. More importantly,
1:29.5	the quarterback, Carson Beck, fifth year quarterback, multi-year starter at Georgia, who then
1:33.8	transferred to Miami for this year as the latest transfer quarterback that Mario Cristoboth
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