Ranking the top 5 most valuable people to Ohio State football’s championship hope

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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Football, Sports

4.2 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Who’s the most valuable person in the Ohio State football program in 2025? Stephen Means and Stefan Krajisnik try to figure that out with the help of our Subtext subscribers. The list can include both players and coaches, but it’s not a best-of list. Its value. Its importance. Stephen, Stefan & the texters each ranked their top 20 people & the lists were combined to create a top 10. On the episode of Buckeye Talk, we reveal the top five. 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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0:47.2	Buckeye talk is about to begin.
0:51.2	Hey, hey, hey, come on then.
1:02.0	Welcome back to Book I Talk. I'm Stephen Means, and that's Stefan. Christen. This is part
1:05.7	two of our most valuable people to Ohio State's chances of winning a national championship,
1:11.8	repeating as national champions in 2025 after winning the inaugural 12th team college football playoff a year ago, get the
1:16.5	text, 614-35-0-3-3-1-5.
1:18.9	If you want to help out with stuff like this, plus news analysis and literally anything else
1:23.0	you could possibly need for your Ohio State football fandom.
1:26.1	Yesterday, we talked about six through 10 of our top
1:29.6	10. For the texters, it was Ryan Day, James Peoples, Kenyatta Jackson, Sunny Stiles, and Ethan
1:34.2	and Yawa. For myself, it was Ethan and Yala, Austin Sarveld, Sunny Stiles, Kenyatta Jackson,
1:39.7	and Carnell Tate. For Stefan, it was Matt Patricia, Ethan and Yala, Edrick Houston, Katie McDonald,
1:45.6	and Ken Yada Jackson. And then for Andrew, he had Bo Atkinson, Caleb Downs, Ethan and Yala,
1:51.8	Larry Johnson, and C.J. Hicks, which brings us to number five on the list. Is it possible,
1:58.4	Stefan, to be the best at something, but not the most valuable
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