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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Ranking Ohio State's Ryan Day and the 12 head coaches in the College Football Playoff

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Football, Sports

4.21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

Welcome to the Buckeye Talk Live Show. A weekly podcast brought to you live at noon every Wednesday for the 2025 season as Ohio State hopes to repeat as national champions. Every week, we'll discuss the program from a big picture perspective. This week, we rank the 12 head coaches in the College Football Playoff. 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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Hey, hey, hey, come on in.

1:20.4

Welcome back to another live episode of Buckeye Talk.

1:23.5

I am Stephen Krasnick, and that is Andrew Gillis.

1:26.8

We're live twice this week because we're not going to give you a live show next week.

1:32.1

Because we're going to be deep in playoff prep as Ohio State prepares for his first college football playoff game in the Cotton Bowl. We'll find out who their opponent is on Saturday at noon when Texas to A&M plays Miami.

1:39.9

Thank you guys all for joining us today. We're going to be ranking the coaches.

1:43.7

And everybody's ranking. It's ranking time around college football right now because no football games are being played. ESPN put their top 50 list out. People are doing top positional stuff. People are doing top coaches. So we're going to get involved and do our top coaches of the college football playoff. The coaches are Georgia's Kirby Smart, Ohio State's Ryan Day, Indiana's Kirk Signetti, Texas, Tex, Joey McGuire, Alabama's Kaelin DeBoer, Ole Misses, Lane Kiffin, who we are including into this, even though he is not technically coaching in the college football playoff. But for the sake of a conversation, we are going to include him because if not, it's going to be a weird conversation about, oh, Ole Miss is up the bottom because they're coaching with an interim. It's like, yeah, we know that. So we're going to use him anyway. Oregon's Dan Lannning, Miami's Mario Cristobal, James Madison's Bob Chesney, Oklahoma's Brent Venables, and two lanes, John Summerall. Obviously,

2:36.7

Lane Kiffin's not the only coach on this list who will be leaving for another SEC school

2:40.6

after this season or another powerful job in general. Bob Chesney at JMU will be leaving for UCLA as

2:46.5

soon as their season is over and John Summerall will be leaving for Florida as soon as their season is

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