Will Ohio State win the 2020 College Football Playoff national championship? Mark It Down Monday

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🗓️ 5 October 2020

⏱️ 90 minutes

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Summary

As we close in on the start of the Big Ten season -- finally -- we need to once and for all mark down our College Football Playoff championship scenarios. We tried this back in mid-August, based on what we knew about schedules, opt-outs and the sport's landscape at the time. Six weeks later, Doug, Nathan and Stephen followed through with a Mark It Down Monday on their actual playoff and national championship predictions. To set the stage, the guys discussed the Buckeyes. Does Ohio State's eight-game Big Ten-only schedule make it easier to reach the playoff, and does it also make it more difficult to claim the No. 1 seed? Has the conversation around Clemson's schedule similarly changed? How impressed are we with Alabama so far, and can the Big 12 or Pac-12 summon any sort of a challenge? Then, we revisit our earlier predictions. Have our top four teams changed, and how do we expect the four seeds to shake out? Is Ohio State still our unanimous pick to win its first national championship since 2014? Thanks as always for listening to Buckeye Talk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, hey, where you been?
0:17.0	Buck I talk is about to begin.
0:21.0	Hey, hey, come on in.
0:28.6	Welcome to Buckeye Talk.
0:29.9	I'm Nathan Baird from Cleveland.com,
0:31.5	along with Doug Lee-Marie and Stephen Means Means it is Monday which means it is another market down Monday only a couple more of these before the season starts.
0:39.0	I'm starting to kind of feel it. Saturday we had an open practice, well I shouldn't say an open
0:43.9	practice. We had an open window at Ohio State practice to go in and watch good
0:48.8	chunk of stretching and then a couple of other chunks of drills and I don't know I learned a lot but it was it was it was it was interesting to see the way some things are set up and also just it really felt like football is back we hadn't seen anybody actually playing football at Ohio State anyway since the first
1:04.8	week of March which turned out to be the only week of spring practice and Stephen
1:08.0	you were there too it just it felt good to actually go back and watch some football
1:11.2	yeah I got to actually watch Justin Fields throw a pass.
1:15.4	And instead of living in the hype of what these top 100 receivers might do,
1:19.2	we actually got to see it in person.
1:21.5	Nine months after they've been in the program and
1:23.4	McMarradius had his hands on them and they look pretty good so yeah I was
1:26.2	we got to watch football which we didn't you know it's been a while so
1:31.4	today is like I said another market down Monday if you listened last week we started I I originally called it like remarking it down now I think I've changed my mind I'm going to pretend like those earlier times where we did season predictions were kind of just like the
1:43.6	exhibition game. They didn't really count and then now, now is when it really counts.
1:47.4	Now we're like writing these down in ink. So you can go back and listen to this one from
1:51.2	mid-August that we're referencing today but we're picking
1:53.9	our college football playoff field and we're picking our national champion
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