Welcome back to your Monday Buckeye Talk, it's Douglas Marie, it's Nathan

Baird at Stephen Means. We hope you had a great Christmas. Today is the last day of

Hanukkah. We hope you have had a great Hanukkah. We hope you have had a wonderful time with family and friends this

holiday season because now you're ours. So like tell your family and tell your friends, it was great. Maybe some

of you don't have to work quite as much this week. A lot of you are working. We know that, but this is your Buckeye Talk time.

So high state football time, we are recording this before Christmas, but we are giving this to you as we are in or getting to Atlanta

because that is what the Ohio State Buckeyes are doing. And we are going to be bringing you coverage from Atlanta the rest of this week.

So this is the Monday pod, the Tuesday pods going to be, hey, everybody got here. There's going to be like a little

bit of a rival news conference. We'll be reacting to that. The Wednesday and Thursday pods, we were reacting to interviews as we do offense defense defense offense here.

The Friday pod, we'll talk about what we learned on media day. We'll make our picks for the game. So, you know, let's go. This is like, we waited all

you for this thing. So great. I open gifts. I don't know. You spent time with loved ones. Now it's us. So welcome. And if you're just, if you don't

really listen to us most of the time, you're like, I guess I'll listen to the Ohio State podcast because it's, you know, semifinal week. Well, then welcome to you guys too. Why weren't you here before?

But we'll take you. So thanks to everybody who's made Buckeye Talk part of your Ohio State fandom and part of your week.

We're recording this early again. And we are looking back one last time, Nathan, before we start building up to this game live in Atlanta this week.

Gone back. If you guys haven't listened to him, go listen to our offense defense breakdowns. Two big separate pods where we did Georgia Ohio State on both sides of the ball.

We're getting that we did a film breakdown pod. Go listen to that. We did sort of awful Ohio State media day in Columbus. Go listen to that. Make sure you get caught up.

But Nathan, we're catching up here because it's Monday. And we're looking back on market down Monday. And I think primarily to see as we usually do when we reflect.

What we got wrong. There's a lot of wrong in this pod. Is that right? Buckeye Talk. There's a considerable amount of wrong, but there's context for the wrong.

The wrong. I think this is actually a great pod. If you are a Georgia fan or if you're in Ohio State fan who has been like a casual fan and you're trying to catch up.

Maybe you don't follow it as intensely week to week. This is a good pod for you because it's going to by reflecting on these preseason predictions.

We are going to tell the story of this season a little bit. There's going to be another pod later where we're going to.

We did pick a bunch of statistical make a bunch of statistical predictions. How many yards certain people would get who would lead in certain things.

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