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What if Ohio State had beaten Michigan last season? BuckeyeFly Effect

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2022

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

It's time for another BuckeyeFly Effect on Buckeye Talk, where the past is reconsidered. On this episode, Doug Lesmerises and Nathan Baird (this was recorded before Nathan's paternity leave) look at the ramifications of Michigan's victory over Ohio State last season. What if the Buckeyes had won instead? Would Ohio State have gone on to win the national title? Would C.J. Stroud have won the Heisman Trophy? Would Ohio State have made the four assistant coaching changes it made after the season? Would Jim Harbaugh still be the head coach at Michigan? Would anything have changed Ohio State's motivation and mindset for a national title run this season? And more. One win, a lot of possibilities. The Wolverines won 42-27 last season, their first win in The Game since 2011. How much changed because that happened? Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey, hey, where you been, but got talk is about to begin, hey, hey, hey, come on in.

0:25.0

Welcome back to another fuck I talk, Douglas recent Nathan Baird and it's a

0:28.5

fuck I fly effect. This is where we take something to happen in Ohio State's

0:34.0

history and say, well, what if that didn't happen? Well, something else had

0:37.7

happened and we are going to go very recent here, Nathan. What if Ohio State beat

0:42.9

Michigan in 2021? And I think this game has ramifications obviously on the Ohio

0:49.6

State side also on the Michigan side. I think it is we've talked about this a lot.

0:54.5

It'll be interesting to see what history does here. Is it a blip? Is it, oh, you

1:00.9

know, Ohio State won 19 of 20 in the rivalry. I remember that game in 2021 when

1:06.9

Michigan got him, but that was it. Or does it? Is it an inflection point where all

1:11.5

the sudden this rivalry is now going to become competitive on a regular basis? I

1:16.0

don't know that anyone believes I don't even think Michigan pants or Michigan

1:18.9

people would believe that Michigan is going to dominate this rivalry now. But

1:23.2

maybe it can be more competitive. Maybe it can be 64 and a 10 year span instead of

1:27.8

10 0 or 9 1. So that part of it, Nathan, we're not going to know, but it's

1:36.1

potentially a game changer or potentially if you had to pick right now between

1:43.7

it changes. It's an inflection point in the rivalry or it's a blip, which

1:47.7

one would you have to pick between those two? I would still I guess probably guess

1:53.1

blip because I think the reasons Michigan won that game last year and the

1:59.3

reasons Ohio State was deficient were more Ohio State problems from the recent

2:05.9

past than they were of the moment. But we can talk about that more, I suppose,

2:10.1

that there were defensive problems in general last year. And I'm not saying

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