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a big 10 talk. Welcome back to Buckeye Talk, aka Big Ten Talk, because, well, the Big Ten season is here if you didn't know how

state faces Michigan State on Saturday on Peacock, 730 to open up Big 10 play.

Let's just get straight into it.

I think, Stefana, I think, honestly,

between Marshall and Michigan State, Ohio State has a good little test drive leading up until the

Oregon game that's in a couple of weeks here.

I think obviously Marshall, their play style is maybe a little bit more similar to Oregon as we talked

about on Monday but I think Michigan States got some guys here that might provide a

good little hey you weren't happy with how you played against Marshall, can you correct it against Michigan State?

And we can take it at more than just face value and really learn something about Ohio State this weekend.

Yeah, it's kind of funny how the schedule is built.

It seems like every week they've played a tougher opponent.

I mean we can go back and forth on Akron and Western Michigan who we think is better.

But it seems like they've gone every week kind of gradually, gradually better.

I think Marshall was the best opponent they played so far.

And I think now it'll be Michigan State and then it'll be Iowa and then it'll be Oregon.

So the schedule really has set up favorably for Ohio State to kind of have an opportunity to get ready for what I think is actually a pretty tough back half of the schedule, right? Like when we start talking about Oregon and Penn State and Michigan and then wherever you fall on the argument of Nebraska and Indiana, like there's some tricky games coming up on the schedule and there's a lot of work that has to be done between August or even if you want to go to

Springball to when you get to a national championship game in January and it's rare that you get

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