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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Ohio State vs. Penn State game preview, picks and over-unders, and does the OSU offense make nothing matter?

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2021

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

On this Friday Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means preview the Buckeyes' matchup with Penn State on Saturday night in Ohio Stadium. This is the best secondary that Ohio State has faced, but just how good are the Nittany Lions corners and safeties? Can PSU QB Sean Clifford, if he's healthy enough, and receiver Jahan Dotson give Ohio State any trouble? Or does none of this analysis matter because the OSU offense is so explosive and efficient, it renders all other pregame discussion irrelevant? Doug, Nathan and Stephen make their picks for the game, as well as for Michigan-Michigan State and Iowa-Wisconsin. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com. 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, where you been, but got talk is about to begin, hey, hey, hey, come on in.

0:25.5

Welcome back to the front end.

0:26.5

Hi, Ducley Marise here at Stephen B, it's the game preview for Ohio State Penn State.

0:31.9

We'll also talk at least a decent amount about Michigan State Michigan and also a game that I

0:38.1

actually didn't quite realize was on the schedule for this weekend until I was looking through stuff

0:43.0

that honestly might be for the West. It really might be. Iowa was constant, Wisconsin is favorite

0:48.8

at home, and if Wisconsin beats Iowa, I guess they're not a guaranteed West representative if

0:55.4

they went out, but they might be close to guaranteed, I would certainly be the favorite.

0:59.7

So that's a big game too, that affects Ohio State or Penn State or Michigan or Michigan State.

1:03.9

So we'll get to all that. We do have our texts or answers this week. I remember to send that out,

1:07.9

which is good by me. Nathan, this is the thing I'm wondering. This is where I get in the most trouble

1:14.3

in my career in trying to analyze Ohio State. I traditionally probably am a little less

1:24.6

a show less sure that Ohio State is going to blow everybody out than some people on the beat.

1:30.1

So we're going to offer, try to offer some cogent football analysis. We're going to talk about

1:33.8

some of the things that Penn State does well while acknowledging some of the things that Penn

1:37.3

State does not do well, but I think it's possible we have entered the part of the season where

1:43.0

it doesn't matter that you can say everything you want to say about an opposing team's defense.

1:50.1

And at least that side of it is like, well, this and this and that and this is like anything like

1:55.0

pre-Georgia. Yes, that all might be true, but it doesn't matter. Do you know what I mean by that?

2:02.4

And do you think we might be approaching that with this OSU offense?

2:06.7

Oh, yeah, I definitely know what you mean by that because I think I'm a little bit the same

2:10.0

ways you and then the really dangerous juncture is the week after you think they were going to play

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