Good morning, Buckknutters. Welcome to the Buckknuts Morning 5 here on Wednesday, December 28,

2022. I am Dave Biddle, coming at you from Atlanta with my friend's Marcus Hartman from

the Dayton Daily News, Patrick Murphy from this site called Buckknuts. Boys, it's just

good to be here. All of the travel craziness. Buck guy is 7.00 dogs. You know, this is going

to be a tough game. Marcus, if you're going to hire a state fan, how confident do you think

Ohio State should be in this game? You know, that's a good question. I mean, there is,

without a doubt, a path to victory. Now, should you feel confident that they're going to find

that path? I don't know. That's up to each person's personal point of view, I suppose.

But if they should, people have been asking me this for a month, you know, what are Ohio State's

chances? Well, are they going to call the good place? And then the ones that work that

actually will keep the defense off balance, then they're pretty good. Know what they call

the place to call against Michigan? Then they're not good. So I think if you want to give

them a benefit out and say that they're going to have a good game plan, you know, be able

to really be prepared to put their best foot forward, then they've got every chance to

win this game. Patrick Murphy, I know you've already talked about this game a lot. What,

if you're a buck, I feel like, what chance would you give the buck guys in this game?

I think it's better than what the, I don't want to say the vast majority, but at least

the vocal majority of Buckeye fans, the people that are on our message boards, the people

that are angry about what they saw against Michigan, you know, obviously there's been a

lot of consternation with that game, with recruiting and things like that. And so there's

a lot of just negativity around this team right now. And I think that this team is still

better than a lot of people are looking at them right now because of that Michigan game.

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