What success and failure looks like for Ohio State’s defense against Texas

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🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Ohio State's defense features a lot of new parts in 2025 and it just needs to figure out how to best deploy them. Doing so could decide whether it can open its season with a win over Texas on Saturday. That’s what Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis will break down on this episode of Buckeye Talk by answering two simple questions. OSU beats Texas on Saturday because its defense does (fill in the space), and OSU loses to Texas on Saturday because its defense fails to do (fill in the space). Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk and sign up to get text messages from experts Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis at 614-350-3315. Get the insider analysis, have your voice heard on the Buckeye Talk podcast and connect with the best Buckeye community out there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:47.0	Welcome back to Buck Guy Talk.
0:48.4	I'm Stephen Means.
0:49.2	That's Stefan Kreisnick, and that is Andrew Gillis.
0:51.3	This is day two of our game preview pod.
0:53.7	Yesterday, we talked about
0:55.2	things from the offensive perspective asking the question, Ohio State wins it's because of this.
1:00.2	Ohio State loses, it's because of this, and those are both offensive. Today, we're going to
1:04.5	flip over to the defensive side and literally do the same thing. Well, also adding at the end of this
1:10.0	podcast are predictions for the
1:11.8	Ohio State Texas game on Saturday between number one and number three at noon inside the
1:16.3	shoe. Let's jump straight into it. Stefan, I think I had you go first yesterday. So Andrew, you get to go
1:22.4	first defensively today. Ohio State wins on Saturday and it's because the defense did this. I wrote down that if
1:30.4	Arch Manning gets sacked four plus times, Ohio State's going to win. And the reason why I went
1:38.1	with that is, I think when you extrapolate the reasons out, you start to kind of map out a very fun path for Ohio
1:47.5	State's defense. Because one of the things that we talked about, especially like after that
1:52.0	Oregon game last year, was like they cannot get pressure with four or they're not simulating
1:57.4	pressure or they're not, you know, remember the antiquated front phrase that got used
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