Reacting to Ohio State's 42-9 win over Rutgers

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🗓️ 23 November 2025

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Ohio State improved to 11-0 on the season following a 42-9 win over Rutgers. On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis react to the win and look forward to Michigan. 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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0:00.0	Hey, hey, where you've been?
0:17.7	Bucket talk is about to begin.
0:21.1	Hey, hey, hey, come on, man.
0:32.5	Welcome back to Buckeye Talk. I'm Stephen Means.
0:34.4	That's the fun Christick, and that is Andrew Gillis.
0:36.2	Ohio State is officially done with the preseason of the preseason. It's like the pre-preseason.
0:41.7	42 to 9 went over Rutgers. Rutgers tried to go for two, which was like the, I guess,
0:47.0	I don't know. Gricciano. You know what? Let's start there. A lot of respect for what Grecciano did
0:52.6	today. Yep. He approached this game the way
0:56.1	you should approach this game. If you know you're going to get your butt whip by almost 40 points,
1:00.9	go hard or go home. Yeah. I like the four down calls that they had. I guess the two point
1:05.5	a version was like to technically make it a 24 point game, which is a three possession game. So I guess
1:10.4	like I at least understand what three possession game. So I guess like,
1:17.3	I at least understand what he was thinking. So props to him. The early fourth down,
1:21.8	when they went for it after the BoJackson fumble, like thumbs up from me. I just,
1:26.7	I don't think it was about this game. Gilles, I mean, they have a rivalry game to play next week,
1:44.5	too. Well, I mean, I guess Rutgers and Penn State of rivals, but they have a pretty big game. Gilles? I mean, they have a rivalry game to play next week, too. Well, I mean, I guess Rutgers and Penn State Arrivals, but they have a pretty big game to play next week, too. Right. But it's like, I think both of these teams today use this game to like tinker and work on things, but in different ways. One did it, one did it understanding that they were going to win this game by however much they wanted to win this game. The other one did it understanding that they're not going to win this
1:47.9	game and they're going to lose it by however much they lose it by. So why not work on your two point
1:52.7	conversions? Because sure, it doesn't matter. It's Ohio State, but it might matter seven days from now.
1:57.8	Right. Yeah. You mentioned it like Rutgers came out and I think there was some
2:03.4	good work given to Ohio State by Rutgers because of that, right? Like, I mean, we pointed this out
2:10.5	pretty immediately. Ohio State put six on the field on defense, freshman cornerback, Devin Sanchez,
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