What We Learned Live: Reactions following Ohio State's 42-3 win over Minnesota
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🗓️ 5 October 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Ohio State started somewhat slow, then completely smothered visiting Minnesota to the tune of 42-3 on Saturday. Our postgame podcast, What We Learned Live, begins with host Dave Biddle giving the three biggest things he learned during the game. Early in the show, Biddle is joined by Jonah Booker who gives his thoughts on the win and what it means for the No. 1 Buckeyes moving forward.
Heath Schneider, Matt Baxendell, Patrick Murphy and Steve Helwagen then bring their insights to the show.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Good evening Bucknutters. |
| 0:28.1 | Welcome to what we learned live following Ohio State's 42 to 3 win over visiting Minnesota. |
| 0:34.3 | The biggest thing we learned is it's good not to be a Penn State fan. |
| 0:38.2 | Okay, that's a, that's a cheap shot. That's a cheap shot. I'm Dave Biddle. Welcome to the show. |
| 0:42.8 | I'll be joined early in the show by Jay Book. Heck yeah. Heater is then going to join after that. |
| 0:49.5 | We're going to have Matt Baxendell after that. And then we're going to have Pat Murphy and Steve Hellwagon live from Ohio |
| 0:55.9 | Stadium. Thank you very much for joining me. So the three biggest things that I learned, |
| 1:00.6 | let's start with this freshman class. Like, I'm just talking about true freshmen. If we want |
| 1:05.2 | to throw a red shirt freshman in there, like Julian Sand, for example, we can do that. Let's just |
| 1:08.9 | talk about the true freshman. I was so impressed with like Bo Jackson and some of these guys, Devin Sanchez. How about Zion Grady? How about Zion Grady? He played a ton tonight and played well. So this freshman class, like, it's kind of perfect. Like they don't need, none of them need to come in here and be like difference makers, starters, but they need to add depth and they have. And there's other examples we can give, like Riley Pettigon, Behem Delane, Jarrez Carter, like there's other guys. We saw Quincy Porter out there tonight. Nate Roberts at Tideon. I love this freshman class. Tadian St. Clair is going to be the starting |
| 1:44.8 | quarterback here one day, I think. Luke Fahey might say maybe not, but I think Tavian will be. |
| 1:52.1 | So that's the first thing I learned. I love this freshman class. I loved it already, and it just keeps |
| 1:57.5 | getting better and better and better. Like Zion Grady is like, yeah, next year I'll probably break out. And I still feel that way. I don't think this is going to be his breakout year, but he played a lot tonight and played well, number 15 for the Buckeyes. I mean, that leads right into my next thing that I learned. You guys all know this already. We knew coming into this game, Ohio State had the best defense in the country. This just solidified it. Not that Minnesota is like a world beat on offense, but they go down, they get that field goal. People are like, oh, Drake Lindsay. And like, I'm thinking, enjoy that field goal. You're not going to get anything else. And they didn't. And normally when I make |
| 2:36.1 | predictions like that, I'm wrong. But I had that feeling that Minnesota was not going to get anything |
| 2:40.4 | else tonight. And they didn't. And I do like their freshman quarterback, red for freshman, |
| 2:45.3 | Drake Lindsey. I think he's going to be a good one there. And overall, like PJ Fleck, I got a kick out of the 06 picture of |
| 2:52.9 | PJ Fleck on Ohio State staff, his one year at Ohio State when he had the hair. It almost looks |
| 2:58.8 | like unnoticeable. So we learned this freshman class is maybe better than we expected. I expected them to be very good. |
| 3:08.9 | They're the number four class in the country. |
| 3:11.1 | They might be better than I expected. |
| 3:13.0 | In fact, let's remove all like disclaimers. |
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