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Welcome back to Buckeye Talk.

I'm Stephen Krasnick, and that is Andrew Gillis.

It's the first big pod of the year, and so we're splitting it in two. It's essentially going to be a two-day game preview pod sort of situation because it's number one versus number three. These types of games deserve this type of thing. What we were doing last year during the playoffs, we're doing something similar to that, though not exactly the same because we don't necessarily have games to rewatch of this Texas team because they haven't played football yet. So what we're going to do instead is kind of take a little bit of hypothetical world, but a little bit of

just projecting of how we view this game might play out, best case scenario, worst case scenario

with a game called if they win, these will be the reasons why. If they lose, these will be the reasons why. Some of them can be Ohio State and in their control. Some of them can be in Texas' control. I hope nobody has, oh, because the ref made a weird call in the fourth quarter, because that's just not how you talk about college football. You just let those things happen. And then we talk about it and the aggregate of it. We're going to do offensive side today, the things that happened on Saturday that led

to Ohio State winning the game on offense. We'll do the wins and the losses on this pot. And then

tomorrow, when we'll also give our game picks, we'll do the defensive side of the ball. We all have a bunch of lists of things.

We're not going to run through everything on our list. We're all just going to name the thing that is on our list. And the reason why we have multiple is because if somebody steals yours, then you've got to come with another one. You can't just say, oh, that was also mine because then that's not really a podcast, right? We got to get through an hour and a half of these things.

Stefan, I'm going to let you go first.

And we're starting with the wins. That's not really a podcast, right? We got to get through an hour and a half of these things.

Defon, I'm going to let you go first.

And we're starting with the wins side of things.

Ohio State won on Saturday because X happened on offense.

Because its tackles look the part of what they're supposed to look. And I'll start specifically on the left

side with Ohio State on if or because Austin Sereveld's moved to left tackle was a move

of strength by Ohio State on its offensive side of the ball. I think we are all in agreement

that Austin Sareaville is awesome.

And everything he's done this offseason suggests that he is ready to have a breakout all-big

10, all-American caliber season. Everything he did for Ohio State in 2024 was beyond impressive,

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