Ohio State vs. Alabama, Picks and Preview for the National Championship

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🗓️ 9 January 2021

⏱️ 107 minutes

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On this special Saturday Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means are joined by more than 100 text subscribers in a live Zoom call to preview and make picks for Monday night's National Championship Game between Ohio State and Alabama. Before Nathan and Stephen makes their picks, and Doug explains why he's not making a pick, the guys run through several questions in a text subscriber survey, including: Which Alabama skill player should Ohio State most worry about? Which OSU skill player other than Justin Fields is the most important to the game? Which unit will decide the game -- OSU offense, OSU defense, Alabama offense or Alabama defense? Which is the best OSU team of the playoff era? Is this Alabama team the best OSU opponent of the playoff era, of the six teams the Buckeyes have played? What is the level of confidence for OSU fans in this game compared to the 2014 Alabama matchup? And how much will potential absences on the Ohio State defensive line affect the game? It's a great time with the texters, so get ready for this big Saturday preview. Thanks for listening all season to Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com. And there will be one more podcast episode before the 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've been, Buck I talk is about to begin.
0:17.0	Hey, hey, come on in.
0:25.0	Welcome back to Buckeye Talk.
0:28.0	It's the Buckeye Talk we've all been waiting for.
0:30.0	The National Championship Preview, hard to believe believe here we are right where you expected
0:35.8	this program to be in some ways and in a place where you never thought you'd be in other ways.
0:41.0	Monday night Alabama Ohio State playing for the National
0:43.8	Championship. This is our Saturday Buckeye Talk podcast. We're recording it at 8 p.m.
0:48.0	Friday night with a Zoom room full of textures. So thanks to everyone who is here joining us. Thanks to
0:54.9	everybody who is listening. Thanks to everybody who subscribes to the
0:58.3	texts. We have eight texture questions, a survey that's to sort of take us through the
1:03.5	discussion. The line currently is about eight Alabama favored by eight. We will
1:07.9	get to the actual picks at the end, not because we're trying to tease anybody,
1:11.6	but because I think the discussion hopefully will illuminate some things and maybe lead us toward what everybody's going to decide what they think is going to happen in this game.
1:21.5	And so Nathan and Stephen, we have the survey from the
1:25.5	textures that we sent out in Friday afternoon and I'm going to use those questions to
1:29.6	kind of help us flow through this Buckeye Talk podcast and the first question is this that I want to start with and it was
1:36.2	pick the side of the ball that will be the biggest reason that the game is one
1:43.1	So it's really I mean it, it's, you know,
1:44.5	so Ohio State offense versus Alabama defense,
1:46.3	that's the same matchup, but which one matters more.
1:48.3	So it's, those were the choices.
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