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Music Good morning,notters. Welcome to the Bucknuts Morning 5. Here on Friday, November 14th, 2025. I am Dave Biddle. Very happy, joined by Jonah Booker, as usual on Fridays. BTA Fridays. Good to see you as always, J.B.

How you doing? I'm doing well. And yourself? I'm doing great. It's going to be balmy tomorrow. You know, they're bringing the California weather with them out here. It's going to be in the 60s at kickoff. I mean, it was like in the low 30s here for a lot of the week. So I'll definitely take the nice weather tomorrow.

So, yes, the Buckeyes favored by merely 31 and a half points tomorrow against UCLA.

The first time these two teams have played since 2001.

I remember this game really well because it was Tressel's first season.

It was the first game after 9-11.

The games that were scheduled for that next Saturday got postponed. So I think there were just played San Jose State. That got moved to later in the year. So they went out to the Rose Bowl after taking a week off. It was just Tressel's first game. The offense couldn't do anything. Defense played well. They haven't played since. First time in Ohio State and UCLA have played in 24 years. All right, brass tacks. Here we go. It's time for our world famous predictions. All right. We'll do it as usual. We'll go three to one. And I'll put mine up and you can say yours. All right. Here we go. Ohio State UCLA predictions. Three, two, one. Thirty-eight to seven. Forty-five three. There you go. 38-7. Okay. I got it. Let me adjust that. You have 387? Yeah, I was a little too ambitious last week, so I decided to get back on that horse. I think they're going to take it to them. I noticed Ohio State scored in the 30s each of our last four games. This is the game they're going to get in the 40s.

Okay.

But we're close.

We're right up there.

We are.

We're very close.

You have 38 to 7, right?

387. But as far as the total points, we're right there, three points different.

That's right.

So how does our friend Tom do it with the,

does he go by total points how close we are or like how, you know,

the margin of victory or a little bit of both?

I think he does it by total points, how close.

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