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This is your game preview pod. Ohio State versus Grambling at 3.30 inside the shoe on Big Ten Network. Listen, this one's going to be a bloodbath. So much so that even Grambling head coach Mickey Joseph understands that this is going to be a bloodbath. Here's his quote when he talked to the media earlier this week. They've got a great band and we have a great band and we're going to compete as a band. I'm just joking right now we

understand what we're getting into. We understand what's going to happen. We understand the scholarships

are not balanced. What they have resources wise and what we have resources wise, y'all know why they're

playing the game. I spoke to the

coaches today and I said, the game's got to be clean. We got to play within the system and we swing.

Essentially for both of these teams, Stefan, the score is not relevant for whether or not today

was a successful day. For Ohio State, it's let's start building up our offense. Let's start building up what this

thing is going to look like with Julian San and Brian Hartline as quarterbacking play caller. For

grambling, it's get out of here healthy and just work your fundamentals. And if you have

opportunities to score, sure, take advantage of those opportunities too. They wouldn't be the first

FCS team to score on Ohio State. It's happened before. But for both of these teams,

this is not about trying to win or lose a football game. It's trying to work on things to

the best of your ability that are going to help you in your other 10 games left on the

schedule. Yeah, in our score prediction that we put up on Cleveland.com, and you'll hear that later in this

podcast, is, you know, I compared it to an NFL preseason game where the goal is to play

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