Reliving Ohio State’s first-ever bowl game against Texas and the end of an era

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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🗓️ 14 July 2025

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State opens its 2025 season by facing Texas for what will be the fifth time in program history, hoping to break a tie. OSU and the Longhorns have split the previous four meetings, with each getting a home game (winning as the visitor) and each getting a win in a bowl game. Ryan Day’s 2024 team claimed the most recent back in January in the Cotton Bowl on their way to a national title. As they gear up for the rematch on Aug. 30, what can those four previous games tell us about what to expect? Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis will spend the next few weeks exploring these four games. They’ll look at what went right, what went wrong and everything in between using the same Retalkables format we’ve used for the past five years. Only this time, we’ll look through these games with a 2025 lens as a unique way to talk about game No. 5. Up next, the Buckeyes' 24-21 loss to the Longhorns in the 2009 Fiesta Bowl. 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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0:04.9	knocks and laughs. From making her believe she has what it takes, to a debut, to playing in the final,
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0:47.3	Buckeye talk is about to begin.
0:50.3	Hey, hey, hey, come on in.
1:02.3	Welcome back to Buckeye Talk. I'm Stephen Means. That's Andrew Gillis and that is
1:05.7	Stefan Christnick. It is part three of our rewatchable series for this summer as we prepare for Ohio State to open
1:13.8	its season against Texas on August 30th. We are running through the four other times that Ohio
1:19.9	State and Texas have played each other. The first obviously in 2005, Texas won that one.
1:24.7	And then in 2006, down in Austin, Ohio State won the second one. And now
1:29.5	time three is where the first of back-to-back times on neutral site fields. It's the Fiesta Bowl in 2009
1:36.1	to close out the 2008 season. Texas is coming into this game at 11 and 1.
1:47.3	They lost one game and they felt like they should have been playing in a national... This Texas team, Andrew, and I'm pointing out Andrew directly because we continue to have
1:51.8	these conversations away from microphones about why the BCS era was stupid.
1:55.8	This 2008 Texas team is why the BCS era was stupid because they had one slip up in the middle of the season
2:02.5	where they lost the game by literally six points to Texas Tech. And now their season is
2:09.0	essentially just kind of over after that, unless a bunch of Domino's fall their way. They don't.
2:13.9	They end up being number three in the rankings that year. They don't get to go
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