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Thursday, Buck, I talk clueless.com.lavery. Stephen means talk about threats, threats. When I came back from vacation, I said to the good textures, hey,

what do you want us to talk about right away, and we got great responses. It was sort of like a rapid fire rants call out.

I didn't mean it to be, but our textures are so responsive it was. And so Stephen and I are going to deal with what one texture sent from the 419.

Would you guys rank the biggest threats facing Ohio State football? I'm thinking about Michigan, NIL, defensive reputation, USC, better recruiting from Luke Fickle, Marcus Freeman, Matt rule, etc.

Overcoming blips and recruiting with decommits. You have to balance short term and long term threats, but I think putting them on the same list makes for an interesting to debate about importance.

And I think our tech subscribers are really getting smart, Stephen. This is this an interesting way to think about this.

Yeah, because it's about, okay, what's a threat this season, right? But then also it's kind of on the back of the fact that Ohio State has lost in Michigan in the last two years,

and all of a sudden George has been the best program in college football last two years. That's a very different outlook than we did a pod I think two years ago of ranking tiers of programs.

How much movement has been done in those tiers over the past two years since we've done that?

So it kind of wraps all that into equation of, okay, Ohio State's not where it was two years ago, but also a lot of other programs that you weren't worried about two years ago.

All of a sudden you might have to worry about them plus we're getting right into a world where it's a 12 team playoff.

So more teams get to come to the party at the end of the year. So I do like the way this question was asked, because it allows us to talk about this year, which is the last year of the 14 playoff, but also 2026.

The same way.

Because for instance, I don't have on my list Sam Hartman, right?

Hey, another day, I'm asked a good veteran quarterback. He transferred from Wake Forest. He's a threat. It's like, well, just you might lose one game.

That's not exactly what we're talking about here, but I also want to outline something very, very clearly, because just because you ask what the biggest things are doesn't mean the thing exists.

So if you said, what are Doug's strongest muscle groups, and you're going through, you're doing biceps, you're doing quads, you're doing gluteus maximus, you're doing abs, you're doing all those things.

And you'd be like, man, Doug is kind of ripped and be like, oh, no, no, no, no, no, Doug isn't ripped at all, but we're just saying among all his weak, newly muscle groups, which is the strongest.

So just because we're going to list in the plan here, Steven is we're going to make a list of the top 10 threats to Ohio State football. You've made a list, I made a list, we're going to go back and forth.

Doesn't actually mean that Ohio State is threatened.

So I did very briefly with the with the tech subscribers, if you'll be a tech subscriber, 614-350-315, you send a text, you get a link back, you sign up for a two week free trial, you get to participate in surveys like this.

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