Ohio State vs. Michigan, 1968: Buckeye ReTalkables

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🗓️ 9 October 2020

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

With the preseason winding down, we had to bring The Game into our discussion of the important games in Ohio State football history. So we took our little time machine back to 1968, when the Buckeyes dominated Michigan with the Super Sophs en route to the national championship. This game lives on as Woody Hayes' finest moment OSU's head coach. It also came during a time of upheaval in society. One year later, Bo Schembechler took over the Wolverines, setting off the Ten Year War in the rivalry. On this day, however, we focused on Rex Kern and a Buckeyes running game equal parts beautiful and punishing. We also paid homage to Jack Tatum and a defense that dominated much of this game and set a tone for the triumph to come in the Rose Bowl against O.J. Simpson and USC. Watch the youtube cut-up version of this Ohio State classic, then join us for this discussion. Thanks as always for listening to Buckeye Talk. 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 to Buckeye Retocables.
0:30.0	Doug Le Maurice, Nathan Baird Stephen Me. Welcome to Buckeye Retalkables.
0:33.1	Doug Le Maurice, Nathan Baird, Stephen Means,
0:35.3	we are reliving another Ohio State football game
0:38.5	two weeks away from the start of actual Ohio State football.
0:42.2	We have done four of these previously and we are doing number five and I am perhaps more excited about this one than anyone we've done so far. It is the 1968 Ohio State Michigan game.
0:56.4	We had to do a Michigan game at some point in here and we landed on this one because not because it's close because Ohio State
1:05.0	wins this game 5014 but because of what it is and I will tell you that I found this to be an emotional experience.
1:17.0	I got tears in my eyes watching this thing multiple times,
1:21.0	and Stephen is already making a face.
1:24.0	This,
1:25.0	so this is gonna be a weird podcast because you guys are chuckling.
1:30.0	I have no connection to Ohio State. I did not grow up rooting for Ohio State. I'm not from Ohio.
1:36.0	Nobody in my family roots for Ohio State.
1:38.0	But I have made Ohio State football part of my life, a big part of my life for the last 15 years.
1:44.6	And this game, I cannot believe, I don't think I've ever watched this before.
1:51.2	Having re-watch this, I cannot believe I've never watched this before it feels like it explains
1:57.7	everything about Ohio State football that you need to know. It explains where we are now. It explains what was happening then. It tells you everything about Woody Hayes. It tells you about what Ohio State football used to be.
2:12.8	It is at a significantly cultural moment
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