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Welcome back to Buckeye Talk. I'm Steven Means and that's Stefan Christnick. And this your leave, no doubt, but except you're getting it on a Tuesday.

And the reason why is we spent Monday just reacting to the news of where Ohio State is in

the college football playoff bracket.

They are the number two seed.

They will play in the Cotton Bowl on December 31st, and they will play the winner of Texas

and Miami as the 7 and 8.

See, this is the second time since Ryan Day's

taken over as head coach as they played on New Year's Eve. They played on New Year's Eve in the

2022 Peach Bowl as well. They lost that game with ironically a kick that ended up being no good

just as the ball was dropping into the new year, which is the irony of that and some of the things

we might talk about today on this podcast. But we are going to be diving deep into Ohio State's

13 to 10, lost to Indiana over the weekend in the Big Ten championship game. It's the first time

in almost 30 years that Indiana has beaten Ohio States. The first time in over 40 years,

the Indiana has won the Big Ten. And the first time in over 40 years, Indiana has won the Big Ten.

And the first time in over like 50 years that they've won the Big Ten

Outright, Ohio State still without a Big Ten championship since 2020.

And that's only the second time since the introduction of the Big Ten Championship game

that Ohio State has lost that game.

And as we do every single week, this podcast is about leaving

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