Ohio State vs. Alabama in 2014 College Football Playoffs: Buckeye ReTalkables

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 106 minutes

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We wrap up our preseason look at the important games in Ohio State football with the night that more than any other set the stage for how we measure the current Buckeyes program. The Sugar Bowl after the 2014 season, in which Urban Meyer led 4 seed Ohio State against Nick Saban's top-seeded Alabama in the College Football Playoff semifinals. It was the culmination of Ezekiel Elliott's brilliant rumble through the postseason. More than that, it was the culmination of what Meyer had been building since he arrived at Ohio State. The Buckeyes, with third-string quarterback Cardale Jones, were nine-point underdogs and fell into a 21-6 deficit early, setting the stage for history. From Evan Spencer's overlooked contributions to Michael Thomas' hints at what would come to the late decisions that almost blew up in Ohio State's face, we delve into the details of one of the most unforgettable nights in Buckeye history. Our ReTalkables will go on hiatus for a while as we focus on the 202 games yet to be played. But we'll still bring you Buckeye Talk five days a week, including after every game. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, hey, where you been?
0:17.0	Buck I talk is about to begin.
0:21.0	Hey, hey, come on in.
0:27.0	Welcome back to another buckkeye retocables on Cleveland.com. It's the
0:36.0	Buckeye Talk podcast, but it's the special thing we do where we look back
0:39.6	into the past and we are going back all the way back for like six years. It's like six years.
0:46.2	It actually feels pretty recent. It's Doug Lémarise, Nathan Baird, and Stephen
0:49.7	means and this book I Retocables is one we had to do at some point.
0:53.4	It's Ohio State Alabama in the college football
0:56.4	playoff national semi-final.
0:58.1	The first year of the college football playoff in 2014
1:00.7	in the Sugar Bowl.
1:02.2	Everybody thought Ohio State was going to lose and spoiler alert Ohio State
1:07.0	won. It is a fantastic game. It is filled with fantastic talent. I'm not going to get too much. I can't do you guys think there's anybody out here?
1:17.4	Do you think we have a single listener to this right now guys who are like, oh, high state Alabama in 2014? Huh. Yeah yeah I don't know much about that one we're
1:25.8	kind of so this is this is not exactly Ohio State Michigan 1968 right
1:29.8	Nathan I mean I assume there's someone listening to this podcast who could have been who could be like 17 18 right now and maybe you were only 11 or 12 then and you weren't hugely invested so I suppose there's some people out there who weren't in the moment of how
1:44.7	hugest game was, but I think yes, for most people I think this is one of the seminal games of their
1:50.2	Ohio State fandom. There are things here that are, I mean this is the kind of game because there's a lot of good
1:58.3	historic context.
1:59.8	Ohio State was number four.
2:01.6	It was the first year of the college football
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