What Ohio State needs to do against Northwestern to shut down SEC nonsense talk: Monday Madness

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🗓️ 14 December 2020

⏱️ 86 minutes

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On this Monday Madness Buckeye Talk episode from cleveland.com, Nathan Baird and Doug Lesmerises kick off Big Ten Championship Game week with a discussion about what the Ohio State Buckeyes need to do against Northwestern in Indianapolis on Saturday to slam the door on the SEC believing it should get a second team in the playoff instead of the Buckeyes getting in there. There's a look at Illinois firing Lovie Smith, a discussion of all the Big Ten matchups this weekend and answers from the text subscribers on whether they'd rather see Ohio State play Northwestern or Michigan on Saturday. Then Nathan and Doug discuss the Northwestern defense, the betting line for this game, whether USC should be ranked higher on Nathan's AP ballot and how they think the final four for the playoff will look a week from now. Will the Buckeyes wind up playing Alabama, Notre Dame or Clemson in a semfinal? Thanks for listening to this Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com. 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, where you've been, Buck I talk is about to begin.
0:17.0	Hey, hey, come on in.
0:25.0	Welcome back to Buckeye Talk.
0:27.0	It is another Monday Madness.
0:28.7	I am Nathan Baird.
0:29.7	He is Doug Leamorese.
0:30.7	I feel like a lot has happened since we talked to everyone last on the Friday
0:34.7	pod, even though Ohio State did not play this weekend, but it was kind of an eventful weekend
0:39.2	for Ohio State's playoff purposes, and I guess we'll just start right off with that.
0:44.4	We've been talking for weeks about this
0:47.1	potential doomsday scenario, as someone called it.
0:51.4	Maybe several of us called it that. Looming out there, Florida ran the table, one that's last
0:57.3	regular season game against LSU and then beat Alabama in the conference championship game,
1:01.8	what was that going to mean for an Ohio State team
1:04.0	that could potentially only be 6 and 0?
1:06.0	And I thought that was a really intriguing angle.
1:08.8	We've been talking about it for a couple weeks.
1:10.3	It was really going to lead to potentially a lot of drama next Sunday when they reveal the awards I guess this coming Sunday when you reveal the college football playoff rankings and
1:21.8	It's all gone.
1:23.8	LSU beats Florida 3734, kind of a weird game.
1:27.1	And I'll say it has one less thing to worry about.
1:29.6	Almost, I think, maybe now nothing to worry about
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