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Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

Rewatching Ohio State's last game against Nico Iamaleava and the championship run it sparked

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Football, Sports

4.21.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 November 2025

⏱️ 85 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 prepare for Ohio State's game against UCLA by rewatching the last time Bruins quarterback Nico Iamaleava came to Columbus. 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

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, where you've been,

0:17.1

Buckeye talk is about to begin.

0:20.5

Hey, hey, hey, come on in. Ben, Buckeye Talk is about to begin.

0:24.8

Hey, hey, hey, come on in.

0:34.7

Welcome back to another Buckeye Talk live show.

0:35.6

I am Stephen Means.

1:14.6

That's Defon Criske, and that is Andrew Gillis, and joining us, even though you can't see him. I don't even know if you guys can hear him, but producer Brennan is what is as well, bringing us the graphics that you are here for. You're not here to listen to us talk. You're here to see the graphics. I get it. I wouldn't be here to see us talk either. Today we are rewatching Ohio State 42 to 17 win over in Tennessee. Well, we're not watching it live. We're talking about it. It's called the retalkables. And it's based off of the Bill Simmons thing. He was doing the rewatchables. Well, this is retalkables because we talk about it after we rewatched the game. And the reason we're doing this is because the quarterback from that college football playoff first round game. Nico I. Malava returns to Ohio Stadium on Saturday. But who would have thought,

1:22.2

Stefan? Who would have thought? Ironically, the winner and the loser both have a player on their team, regardless of what happened in that game, they would play their next game in Los Angeles.

1:27.0

Who would have thought? Yeah, that's certainly one way of looking at it.

1:31.6

Sorry, my brain was, my brain was churning their first time.

1:35.3

Yeah, what that meant, but I got you now. I got it.

1:39.0

You had to think about it, man. Let's go back to what? What is that?

1:42.8

11 months ago now? how different things were heading into

1:47.3

that cold game on December 21st versus where we are at right now where we're all just like well

1:52.0

Ohio states won an national championship everything is great except right guard ironically enough

1:57.2

yeah um so one of the things that I think is important to kind of do as we do

2:03.7

these retalkables is to find the moment in time. And I think we did that. And I think it was cool.

2:10.5

I think we all kind of like laughed at like the Taco Bell commercials and the car commercials

2:14.5

when we did five Ohio State, Texas. And we were like, huh, Taco Bell used to be cheaper.

2:18.7

That's crazy.

2:19.6

And oh, remember that Nissan commercial?

2:21.3

Remember, like, hey, remember the, you know, they were talking about this and that and

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