Would Ohio State football have won the 2020 national championship? Mark It Down Monday

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

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🗓️ 17 August 2020

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Barring a reversal from the Big Ten Conference, we can no longer predict whether Ohio State would have won a national championship in fall 2020. However, we can debate what would have happened if the season had been allowed to play out without the influence of the coronavirus pandemic. So that's what Nathan Baird, Doug Lesmerises and Stephen Means did on their usual Monday edition of the daily podcast. All three Cleveland.com staffers gave their four seeds for the College Football Playoff, their national championship matchup and the eventual national champion. They also asked their Buckeye Talk text subscribers to do the same, and you would probably not be surprised to hear they overwhelmingly expected a special season for Ohio State. We also talked about whether a championship means more for the Buckeyes right now if it goes through Clemson or Alabama, why a six-team playoff seems like an increasingly sensible reform and much more. 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.
0:27.0	Welcome to Buckeye Talk.
0:31.0	It is another market down Monday, maybe the last one for a while, because we, I think, have fully exhausted things to predict because we're running out of seasons, or maybe we'll just pause until we find out what's exactly
0:44.2	is going on with the winter spring ideas but I'm Nathan Baird from
0:48.0	Cleveland.com I'm here with Doug Leamorese I'm here with Stephen Means
0:51.4	this is the podcast that we had always planned to do eventually
0:55.7	with Marked Down Monday, maybe the last one before the regular season, something like that,
0:59.7	right before the season would start. So in another month month or so who's going to win the
1:04.1	national championship in 2020 or maybe more to the point will Ohio State
1:07.6	win the national championship in 2020 put this out to the textures I asked you all to
1:11.7	pick your your your four teams will make the
1:14.2	playoffs seed them one through four tell me who your championship matchup is
1:18.0	tell us who your national champion is and we felt like that was something that we had to do now still just for the sake of posterity,
1:27.2	just to kind of get out there the same way we did with the conducting the preseason poll this season, which happened before they canceled the season.
1:35.0	So we still thought there was going to be Big Ten football, maybe at that point, or at least we're planning for it.
1:39.9	But it was important to get those things down on paper just so people know what the
1:44.1	context of this season was going to be and who the great teams were going to be who the
1:47.5	great players are going to be. Did you guys find it easy to get back into an
1:51.7	intellectual place to do this kind of analysis or now that things have just been shattered to this point.
1:58.0	How difficult was that?
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