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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Predicting Ohio State’s 2025 first-team All-Americans: Mark It Down Monday

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Football, Sports

4.21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

It's another Mark it Down Monday as Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis discuss who they think will be the next Ohio State football players to earn trees in Buckeye Grove as first-team All-Americans in 2025 As part of the discussion the three talk: Do the Buckeyes have to players who are locks to get trees in 2025? OSU has constantly had elite quarterback play, but had one earn a tree since 2006. Does that drought end in 2025? How many first-team All-Americans will Ohio State have and which side of the ball will have more? Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk and sign up to get text messages from experts Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis at 614-350-3315. Get the insider analysis, have your voice heard on the Buckeye Talk podcast and connect with the best Buckeye community out there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:12.0

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0:18.0

My knees knocked so hard that I was about to answer them.

0:21.6

That's how nervous I was.

0:23.6

Eric Rudolph and the rise of anger.

0:25.6

Domestic terrorism has been metastasizing across the country for a long time now.

0:31.6

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0:42.8

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0:44.9

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1:02.8

Buckeye talk is about to begin.

1:06.2

Hey, hey, hey, come on in.

1:16.9

Yeah. Hey, hey, come on in. Welcome back to Book I Talk.

1:18.2

I'm Stephen Means.

1:18.9

That's Stefan Christnick, and that is Andrew Gillis.

1:21.0

It's another Mark It Down Monday.

1:23.0

And listen, as you're listening to this podcast right now, we are inside the Woody.

1:26.8

Unless you're listening at like 5.30 in the morning, then we're sleeping. I'm just going to be honest with you. But if you're listening to this podcast right now, we are inside the Woody. Unless you're listening at like 5.30 in the morning, then we're sleeping. I'm just going to be honest with you. But if you're listening to this as part of your lunch break or something like that, we're talking with Ryan Day, getting an update after Ohio State's first scrimmage of the fall. I wonder if we're going to start hearing some of those magic words. I don't think he's going to name him and starting quarterback today, but I wonder if we start hearing language that suggests that we're closer than objects in the mirror are closer than they may appear when we're talking about the quarterback competition, depending on how Ryan Day talks about it today. But that's not what we're going to be marking down today. Though, I mean, one of us might name a quarterback and one of the things we're marking down today, but we're not marking down all Americans. And that's first team all Americans. That's Buckeye Grove. In order to get a tree in there, you have to make a first team all American team. It used to be one of the five major all American teams. I think they've expanded that. But for the sake of this conversation, we're going to leave it at just the five major All-American teams. A bit of history before we get into some things here because we did get 27 different people between the offense and defense who got at least one vote to make an All-American team. Plus a specialist got a vote to make an All-American team.

2:35.1

2019, Ohio said had four All-Americans, Wyatt Davis and J.K. Dobbins on offense,

2:40.7

Chase Young and Jeff Okuda on defense in 2020. Wyatt Davis on offense and Sean Wade on defense.

2:46.1

Sean Wade was the last defensive player to be an All-American until this past season. In 2021,

2:53.0

Chris Oliva, Garrett Wilson, Aaron Munford, and Nicholas Petit Frere all made at least one major

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