Good morning Bucknottors. Welcome to the Bucknott's Morning 5 here on Monday, September 8th,

2025. I am Dave Biddle, very happy to join by Dan Rubin. I don't know if Dan and I were happy to wake up to 40 degree temperatures this morning. I kind of like it a little crisp, though. It's not like it's like, you know, it's not like it's below 30. That's when I'll start to get a little, a little concern. but yeah, man, I didn't expect to wake up to 43 degrees or whatever it was.

I'll take to get a little concern. But yeah, I mean, I didn't expect to wake up to 43 degrees or whatever it was. I'll take it if the sun is shining. Yes, exactly.

It's good fall weather. It's better than last year at this time when every day it was like in the 90s. I know my daughters play tennis. So, you know, we're out there on the concrete, just frying.

Good morning to everybody out there.

Yes, we do cover, as Dan likes to say, we cover the national champion,

Buckeyes on the show, the number one team in the nation.

I tell you what, I mean, they are, Ohio State's now the betting favorite to win the

national championship, so we'll see, man.

That'd be crazy.

They'd never gone back to back in school history. Only one coach has ever won multiple national championships. That being Woody Hayes, we'll see what if Ryan Day can become even more of a legend. All right, things that we have learned about this team, things that maybe we didn't know entering the year. Now, we knew Julian Sayan was extremely accurate, but my gosh, geez, I mean, he's been so unbelievably on point, Dan. Like the Texas game was 13 to 20, but that included four drops or, and he had been 17 to 20. And then a lot of those drives would have kept going, some of those drives. And who knows what those stats would look like and then he a ball didn't hit the ground uh this past Saturday had the one interception man 18 of 19 and it's just the way his ball placement is just special

we discussed before the show that we were going to talk about things that maybe have

surprised us and it's fair to say,

when your team is this good, not that much will be surprising, but you hit one of them.

And my expectations for Julianne were really, really high. He has exceeded those. And I said, I said it to you in jest on the conference call.

I said to the group,

remember that terrible pass he threw.

Silence.

No.

No.

Hasn't thrown it yet.

And I said even Will, Howard, who, you know,

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