Setting the stage for Ohio State football's season opener vs. Nebraska

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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🗓️ 19 October 2020

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

At long last, football season has arrived in the Big Ten Conference. Ohio State opens its pursuit of a fourth consecutive conference championship against Nebraska at Ohio Stadium on Saturday. Doug Lesmerises and Nathan Baird first take a spin around the college football landscape. How difficult is it to fill out an Associated Press ballot right now? Which teams and players are we buying stock in or dumping our shares of through the first six weeks? What are the storylines we are most intrigued by in the OSU-Nebraska opener? The Buckeyes opened as 23.5-point favorites over the Cornhuskers. Does that line make sense, and should OSU fans expect some higher-scoring games on both sides of the ball? What level of concern should Buckeye fans have for Saturday game -- either that an upset could come or OSU will not live up to expectations? Finally, Doug and Nathan pick their four College Football Playoff teams after other conferences have played as many as five games. NOTE: There will be no Tuesday podcast during the season. Wednesday, Thursday and Friday pods will continue as usual, with the Friday pod recorded live with Buckeye Talk text subscribers Thursday night. We'll come back with a Saturday postgame pod and this Monday format to wrap up the weekend and look ahead. Thanks as always for listening to Buckeye Talk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey. Hey, hey, hey, where you been?
0:17.0	Buck I talk is about to begin.
0:21.0	Hey, hey, come on in
0:29.7	Welcome to to welcome to welcome to buck i talk it is the Monday edition, October 19th.
0:34.4	I'm Nathan Baird Cleveland.com. He's Doug Lame Reese.
0:38.0	We made it you guys. It's Ohio State football opening weekend.
0:42.1	It only took us, you know, two months longer than it was
0:44.8	supposed to take, but here it is. Doug, you've been splitting time with us on our Browns coverage
0:49.9	and doing a lot of Browns coverage in addition to your work here at Buckeye Talks.
0:54.1	So your football season's already started for you, right?
0:56.3	Like you've been in the middle of it now for several weeks.
0:58.4	Does anything feel different with this like turning into an Ohio State week we're going to have interviews
1:04.3	and we're going to have an actual Ohio State football game to cover?
1:06.5	It was interesting I mean like Sunday is NFL day in my head I mean the head of everybody in America
1:11.2	but you started seeing these tweets from Ohio State football players on
1:14.8	Sunday of Game Week because it's Sunday is the first day of the game week for these guys.
1:20.3	It's often a recovery day, but it's a film day, it's a look back day, you know, watch the tape, learn from what you did, and then you get out on the practice field. And so that struck me. I don't know who I think about been Jeremy Rutgers, Twitter that I saw that it was like game and it was like man it really is like it's
1:34.8	NFL game day Sunday but it's also the first day of Ohio State's first game week of the
1:42.3	20 football season and then I was also looking up some things and I was like
1:46.4	Trevor Lawrence has played five games and that struck me and I was like I can't believe how much
1:51.9	college football has happened.
1:53.7	Because some of this stuff, it's like, I don't care if Texas San Antonio has played.
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