Predicting Ohio State’s 22 starters vs. Texas: Mark It Down Monday

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🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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It's a Mark It Down Monday on Buckeye Talk, and this one deals with Ohio State's season-opener against Texas on Aug. 30. Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis mark down the starters for the Buckeyes on both sides of the ball in that game. It's a way for the trio to talk about the Ohio State position battles while also putting them on the spot for a prediction: Name the 11 players who will take the first snap on offense and the 11 who will take the first snap on defense. 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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1:23.5	Welcome back to Buckeye Talk.
1:24.9	I'm Stephen Means.
1:25.7	That's Stefan Kriksnik, and that is Andrew Gillis.
1:27.4	And we've made it. The season has arrived, which means it's pretty much August, which means it's time to start marking some stuff down, mark it down Mondays, have officially started 614-350-0-315, the two-week free trial, 39, after that. For the next four or five weeks here, I'll be sending along different surveys, different questions,
1:47.1	because it's time to start making stat predictions.
1:49.9	Every Monday, leading up to Ohio State season opening game against Texas on August 30th,
1:56.5	we're starting with the starting 22.
1:58.7	And this isn't a project the two deep. It's not a project
2:02.8	the traditional starting lineup. If you want to be weird about this, you can be weird about this
2:09.1	Buckeye talk. But we are projecting who is going to take the first snap on each side of the
2:15.2	ball, who are the 11 people who are going to be on the field. And we can
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