Instant Analysis Of Ohio State's 38-3 Win Over Michigan State
Brendan Gulick and Anthony Moeglin give their reaction to Ohio State's dominate 38-3 winning effort against Michigan State.
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00:00 We've got the whole crew together as we cover Ohio State with our instant analysis from
00:11 Ohio State.
00:12 There's something that doesn't feel right.
00:13 Unbelievable effort from him today.
00:14 Is EJ Liddell going to crack the first team on Big Ten?
00:15 I think he can be the guy.
00:16 I'm not trying to start a quarterback controversy.
00:17 He seems to have the durability.
00:18 He certainly has the toughness is the question on a lot of people's minds here.
00:19 I think he's going to be a great quarterback.
00:20 I think he's going to be a great quarterback.
00:21 I think he's going to be a great quarterback.
00:22 I think he's going to be a great quarterback.
00:23 I think he's going to be a great quarterback.
00:24 I think he's going to be a great quarterback.
00:25 I think he's going to be a great quarterback.
00:26 I think he's going to be a great quarterback.
00:27 I think he's going to be a great quarterback.
00:37 Hi everybody and welcome to our instant analysis show on Buckeye Breakdown.
00:41 That was exactly what the Ohio State Buckeyes needed tonight.
00:44 38 to 3, the final score as the Buckeyes quite frankly rampaged Michigan State.
00:51 The game was not nearly as close as that five touchdown difference on the scoreboard might
00:57 indicate.
00:58 There were moments tonight that felt a little bit more like an exhibition than a competitive
01:02 game but it was a pretty impressive victory for the Buckeyes.
01:05 Brendan Gulick, Anthony Meglin with you.
01:07 We're both covering remotely tonight and Meg's a night where I think I would say this was
01:14 probably Kyle McCord's best game as a Buckeye.
01:17 He looked really, really good.
01:19 For sure.
01:20 He looked sharp.
01:21 He looked confident.
01:22 He looked smooth and Coach Day after the game and his presser said the best, the best game
01:27 the best thing that he did tonight.
01:28 He had great feet and if you're watching the broadcast, they kept talking about how his
01:32 feet and his arm and his eyes were all in line.
01:35 You could see the results of that.
01:37 His accuracy was off the charts tonight.
01:38 I thought his decision making was incredible and it did help that Michigan State's defense
01:43 wasn't, isn't the best but that doesn't matter.
01:47 You know that it doesn't matter.
01:48 There's 11 guys on the other side of the ball and you got to deliver it accurately on time
01:53 and he did that all night long and really put together his best game this year and his
01:56 best game as a Buckeye.
01:58 24 of 31 for 335 yards, three touchdowns tonight, completing 77% of his passes.
02:07 Pretty darn good and you know I say I think because obviously the last couple of weeks
02:13 I know he's turned it over a couple times but he's largely looked really, really good
02:18 and obviously completed the first 11 passes in a row last week but I still thought he
02:23 saw the game better this week.
02:25 To your point, maybe some of that was the fact that Michigan State is just, they're
02:30 kind of in disarray right now and I almost feel like you have to pull the plug a little
02:35 bit on any true criticism for them.
02:38 Maybe they don't feel that way but I just don't have very high expectations for them
02:42 given what they've gone through this year.
02:44 Maybe moving forward we can, you know, we can change our expectations of them but I
02:49 thought it was really important for Ohio State to back up last week's tough win on the road
02:55 with a really important showing at home under the lights on national TV against a program
03:02 that for lack of a better way to say it man, Michigan beat the crap out of.
03:06 So you got to go do the same thing if you're trying to keep racking up those data points
03:10 that look similarly.
03:11 Yeah, no question.
03:13 My favorite part about tonight's game was the fast start and again that was referenced
03:17 on the broadcast a number of times but it's really true and it doesn't, again, it doesn't
03:21 matter what the competition is on the other side.
03:23 You've been saying all year long and even just go back one week to the Rutgers game
03:27 where you go into halftime down nine to seven and you're thinking, hey, it could have gone
03:31 differently here or there.
03:33 Tonight it was no discussion.
03:35 We came out first drive right down the field touchdown, second drive right down the field
03:39 touchdown.
03:40 You mix in a couple stops on the other side and all of a sudden the game's out of reach
03:44 right away.
03:45 I mean it was over before, you know, one minute into the second quarter, you know.
03:48 So the fast start for me was my favorite part and that goes into why I thought Kyle just
03:54 played so well is because that kind of sometimes falls on the quarterback, right?
03:58 It's a third down on the first drive where you have to make a completion or a tough ball
04:02 and then you can get the ball to Marvin Harrison and you just do great things.
04:06 But I thought the fast start tonight was really my favorite part of the performance from the
04:11 offense for sure.
04:13 All right, so let's talk Marvin Harrison for a minute.
04:17 You know, this is, it's a common theme, right?
04:21 And maybe the rest of the country is starting to realize it a little bit more how impressive
04:26 truly he is.
04:27 Ultimately, I don't know if he's going to win the Heisman.
04:30 You know, there's such a heavy statistical component that's involved with that.
04:35 But he needed another game that you could point to and be like, see, this is what he's
04:42 capable of, right?
04:44 Because you're going to mix in a few lower statistical games just because of the way
04:48 this season has gone.
04:50 And tonight, seven catches on nine targets for 149 yards and two touchdowns.
04:56 And it was so painfully obvious that he's the best player on the field.
05:01 And anytime the ball was thrown his direction with the exception of one drop that I guess
05:06 just prove he's still a human and not, you know, an extraterrestrial.
05:11 He was unstoppable again.
05:13 And add one carry 19 yards in a rushing score.
05:16 Oh yeah, right.
05:18 Which he said afterward was his favorite score of the night.
05:21 Which was so cool.
05:22 And it was very obvious right away, kind of what Ryan Day and the coaching staff was trying
05:27 to do like, hey, let's get Marvin in the end zone.
05:29 He deserves a night like this.
05:31 You know, he's put together, you know, just so many games back and forth.
05:35 He's been so reliable for this team.
05:37 And it was time to like, hey, we're going to give you, we're going to reward you a little
05:40 bit.
05:43 That touchdown catch up the sidelines.
05:45 I don't know how that happens.
05:47 Perfect pass.
05:48 Great, great hands.
05:49 Got that foot down.
05:50 I mean, there was like one foot.
05:52 Yeah, got two feet in.
05:54 There was probably a one yard by one yard box where that ball could be and it landed
05:58 in it and Marvin made a great catch.
06:00 I've watched, I watched that, that play, I don't know, 30 times now.
06:03 Just amazing where that ball got dropped and how he's, his body control is just spectacular.
06:08 And it was, it was fun to watch him and he played a half, right?
06:11 He played one drive in the third quarter and did all of that and really in a half.
06:16 It was just a really special night for Marvin and you're hopeful that it does enough to
06:21 keep him in that Heisman conversation.
06:24 But I think more importantly, the jury may be closing up shop on Marvin Harrison, maybe
06:30 the best non quarterback player in the country for sure, in my opinion.
06:35 Yeah.
06:36 And if anybody didn't see him come to the podium post game, you can check that on our
06:41 YouTube channel.
06:43 It's just, it's a new day.
06:45 It's a new era in college football.
06:47 And if there's ever a guy that screams, I'm the real deal wide receiver.
06:54 I mean, come on, man.
06:55 The hair, the glasses, the chain, it's Marv knows he's good.
07:02 And he's, he's humble in his answers.
07:04 And I appreciate that about him.
07:07 But he is a superstar and he can back it up.
07:10 So that's fine.
07:11 It was also when I get to his head.
07:13 It was also cool.
07:14 He stood on the podium and it was it was cool.
07:17 He was excited about it.
07:18 You could tell he was excited because they normally he has them on the back tables in
07:22 the back.
07:23 He's like, Hey, I'm up on the big podium today.
07:24 And he was like, jokingly looking around at the reporters.
07:26 It was really cool.
07:27 It's worth the watch if you have the time to watch it.
07:30 All right.
07:31 So while Marvin's going to take a lot of the headlines and he should, and Trevion Henderson
07:36 looked like Trevion again tonight, yet another good night, 13 carries, 63 yards and a touchdown.
07:42 Kyle played terrific football.
07:44 I think the thing that most impressed me tonight, Latham Ransom out and Ryan Day indicated maybe
07:53 longer term didn't say he was done for the year, but indicated that didn't look good.
07:58 So we might be talking about life after Latham for the rest of the season, or maybe most
08:03 of the rest of the season here.
08:05 So no Latham Ransom in secondary.
08:07 Josh Proctor, Ryan Day says he's week to week.
08:11 They're hopeful he's going to come back soon, but obviously Proctor said a great year.
08:15 He's out.
08:16 And Tommy Eichenberg, who I would argue is the team's best defensive player and most
08:20 consistent defensive leader.
08:23 He's dealing with an injury that Ryan Day said is also week to week, confident that
08:27 he'll be back soon, but is soon next week is soon two weeks, frankly, because that's
08:33 what you're really starting to use as a measuring stick here.
08:35 So you're missing three defensive starters.
08:38 Yes, it's against a team that isn't great right now, but still to give up only three
08:43 points, that's pretty darn good.
08:46 It's really good.
08:47 And you add this to Tommy Eichenberg as well.
08:50 I mean, that's the leader of the defense.
08:51 You mentioned leader, but the quarterback of the defense, he calls the plays and so
08:55 you're missing that guy.
08:56 And that adds another layer to it.
08:59 They did a little bit of a hit on the TV broadcast about Cody Simon, and I thought it was well
09:02 worth it.
09:04 Just him stepping up and having a really good day, one pass breakup, five total tackles,
09:10 three solos.
09:11 There wasn't much in terms of what they were getting, not a ton of offensive plays from
09:18 Michigan State, but I thought that the guys on defense played very well.
09:22 Sonny Stiles had a sweet sack that they highlighted.
09:25 It was really cool where he dropped into coverage and it was really good.
09:29 You could see his athleticism really in play, where he drops back into coverage, kind of
09:33 fakes it, and then blisses the quarterback and gets home really quickly.
09:36 And thought he played pretty well.
09:38 And then again, the secondary is just fantastic.
09:42 Doesn't matter who is on the field.
09:44 It feels like it's just plug and play on the back end where those guys can just shut receivers
09:48 down and make life for the quarterback very, very tough for four straight hours on a Saturday.
09:54 Jordan Hancock played really well tonight.
09:55 It was great to have Denzel Burke back.
09:57 I thought he also looked good.
09:59 And since we're on the health train here, obviously good to see Cade Stover back and
10:04 being the reliable weapon that he is at tight end.
10:09 Obviously Ohio State is looking at this going, "Okay, you're coming tonight.
10:14 You're 9-0."
10:16 And I have to imagine that Ryan Day this week, he kind of alluded to it when he met with
10:22 us on Wednesday night, without straight out saying these words, I think he's a little
10:29 frustrated that there's so much going on in the national conversation around the Michigan
10:37 cheating scandal, that his number one ranked team in the country that has grown immensely
10:43 over the course of the year might not be quite getting the recognition they deserve.
10:49 Which is a weird dichotomy because they also regularly say, "We don't care about the noise.
10:53 We're just trying to focus on us."
10:55 But Ryan Day was a little more straightforward than normal on Wednesday and basically saying,
11:00 "Hey, we got a pretty good team here.
11:03 We should pay attention to the guys that are here playing well because they're really good.
11:08 And they're working their butt off and they're doing a good job of blocking out all of the
11:11 other external stuff that is impossible not to see when you're an 18 to 21-year-old kid
11:17 that lives on social media.
11:18 It is impossible not to see all of that stuff."
11:21 No, it truly is.
11:23 And one of the things you just said here is the steady growth of this team.
11:28 You look back and it's so funny looking at coming from now the end of a season and looking
11:32 back at a year where you start in Indiana and it doesn't look great.
11:37 And then you go to Notre Dame and you escape, but you win and you keep continuing to grow.
11:41 And then you just beat a really tough Penn State team and you play really hard and they're
11:46 just continuing this steady path of getting better and not taking any steps back, but
11:51 just continuing week by week by week.
11:53 And then you come out in week nine and you just totally look the part, right?
11:56 We say it all the time.
11:57 Good teams win, great teams cover.
11:59 And Ohio State in a half tonight looked just, that was the perfect showing they needed tonight.
12:05 Defense was shut down on defense.
12:06 The offense for the first time put together from the very jump, from the starting gun
12:11 to when they were done, they were smooth, they were efficient, they didn't turn the
12:15 ball over.
12:16 They just looked so good.
12:17 And just so you're hitting your stride at the right time.
12:20 And that's so crucial in a long football season like this to get to start peaking at
12:27 the right time.
12:28 And like you said, Coach Days, it's funny when he wants to get a message out and we
12:32 can kind of tell because we listen to him every day, but it definitely was a different
12:36 message like, "Hey, you need to focus.
12:38 You need to pay attention to this team because we're peaking at the right time.
12:40 We're playing really good football and we're a tough team.
12:43 When we're across from you, we're going to make your life hell for a whole Saturday."
12:48 So it's fun to see where this team has gotten to.
12:53 Michigan State had 88 passing yards, 94 rushing yards.
12:58 They were 2 of 14 on third down.
13:04 I mean, what more do you want?
13:07 I mean, Ohio State suffocated another Big Ten opponent tonight.
13:11 I don't know.
13:13 I think about those who are looking at the Buckeyes and trying to find something to knock.
13:20 The reason they're ranked number one is because of this defense, period.
13:25 That's why they're ranked number one in the country right now.
13:29 My favorite part about it is another game where you just said 2 of 14 on third down.
13:33 Think back to the Penn State game.
13:34 It was Penn State 1 of 16.
13:36 So I'm sure you and I should spend some time looking through some of those third down numbers.
13:41 When you're getting off the field on third down, those are three and outs.
13:45 Maybe you give up a first down here or there, but you're forcing punts and you're controlling
13:49 field position.
13:50 You're giving your offense, who if the offense found its stride tonight, if you're suffocating
13:56 opposing offenses and letting this group get after it and have more opportunities to score
14:01 points, this team's going to come together at the right time.
14:03 It's going to be a really scary out for anybody that they face.
14:08 This is obviously instant analysis of tonight's win.
14:12 But I think the other two things, because now that we're at this time of the year where
14:16 the Buckeyes are 10 and 0, the other two major talking points today, if you're an Ohio State
14:21 fan are, how did Michigan look?
14:24 The reality is Michigan did what I kind of expected they would do.
14:29 They went to Happy Valley and they kind of pounded Penn State.
14:33 It didn't look that way necessarily on the scoreboard.
14:37 I don't know why James Franklin decided to go for it on fourth down, fairly deep inside
14:43 his own territory.
14:45 Maybe that sealed Michigan's win, but literally Michigan pounded them in that Michigan's last
14:51 passing attempt was halfway through the second quarter in that game.
14:57 They literally ran their way to a victory without Jim Harbaugh on the sideline.
15:03 We're two weeks away from an all out war in Ann Arbor.
15:09 You get to this point of the year, Megs, and it's like you're constantly comparing.
15:12 How'd you look this week?
15:13 How'd your opponent look this week?
15:15 How'd you look?
15:16 How'd they look?
15:17 How'd you look?
15:18 How'd they look?
15:19 You can't avoid it now.
15:20 Yeah, no question.
15:21 Then you're doing the transitive property of how'd you look against Penn State?
15:24 Well, how did Michigan look against Michigan State?
15:28 It gives us good conversation, but you're seeing two teams that are going to look on
15:35 paper.
15:36 They're going to match up very well.
15:37 I think that they're up front.
15:39 It's two really good groups that are going to be pounding on each other all day.
15:43 I think Ohio State's going to have a little bit of advantage on the perimeters with the
15:48 Ohio State receivers.
15:49 We'll get into more detail as we get closer, but you're just seeing two really good teams
15:54 that are staring down at each other.
15:56 Two weeks is hopefully both teams get through next week healthy.
16:00 They take care of business, and you have a one versus two matchup because it's exactly
16:05 what we're looking for to put a cap on the season.
16:09 I'm glad you brought up the transitive property with that because I was actually thinking
16:12 about, "Okay, it sure looks like, barring something that feels miraculous, although
16:21 I wouldn't rule it out with the Big Ten West, it sure feels like Iowa's the team that's
16:25 going to end up representing the West in the title game."
16:28 Iowa played Penn State and got steamrolled.
16:33 I just don't know if the idea of the transitive property is always a perfect indicator because
16:40 teams get better throughout the year.
16:42 I do feel somewhat confident that if Iowa played Penn State again, it wouldn't be 31
16:48 to nothing.
16:49 Iowa, I mean, look, they scored their last touchdown today on an exceptionally short
16:55 field.
16:56 They took it over the nine-yard line.
16:59 They didn't exactly move the ball up and down the field against Rutgers, but they had a
17:03 nice win, 22 to nothing against Rutgers.
17:07 The lowest over-under in the history of college football hit the under.
17:14 I think the live under, by the way, was like 21 and a half or something on first quarter,
17:19 which was wild.
17:21 But look, I think Iowa's going to be a tough test in a Big Ten championship game if that
17:27 ultimately ends up being who Ohio State or Michigan would face.
17:32 Basically, if you're going into this next week, for both Ohio State and Michigan, it's
17:38 "Hey, you got one more week to make sure that you get as right as you can possibly
17:44 get."
17:45 Because two weeks and then the winner in three weeks are going to have to play really, really
17:49 hard against back-to-back, very likely, two excellent defenses.
17:53 Yeah, no question.
17:54 That Iowa team feels like a group that will just try to drag you into the mud.
17:59 They're just like, "Hey, we're going to muck this thing up.
18:02 We're just going to pull you down, and we're going to hold you down as long as we can."
18:05 It may work.
18:06 It may not.
18:07 We may get blown out, but we may be able to keep this a four-quarter game.
18:11 They're an interesting group.
18:12 But like you said, too, the comparison of the transitive property, like we said, not
18:19 only do teams get better throughout the year, I think teams also get worse and lose a lot
18:23 of confidence.
18:24 You look at this Penn State team before the Ohio State game, we're kind of gearing up.
18:28 Drew Alley was starting to roll.
18:31 And then they get beat, and it's like Ohio State almost breaks them.
18:36 And then they don't look great the next two weeks, and then they play Michigan again today,
18:41 and it just feels like they're a broken team.
18:44 So that also is a part of it, too.
18:46 So it's just fun for conversation.
18:50 These next couple of weeks in the Big Ten are going to be awesome.
18:52 They're going to be so much fun, and it's a really exciting end of the season.
18:56 Yeah, I mean, look, Ohio State and Michigan looked apart.
18:59 They don't just look like the class of the league.
19:01 They look like the kinds of teams that are the class of college football.
19:04 It's reflected that way in the CFP rankings.
19:07 I would prefer the rest of the Big Ten to figure it out a little bit, because in some
19:13 ways Penn State's been like this for a while.
19:15 I think I saw today James Franklin is like 4-16 against Ohio State and Michigan.
19:21 That's gross.
19:22 But the reality is, Michigan State and Wisconsin, they've fallen off a little bit from where
19:29 they were five, six, seven years ago.
19:31 And I think the league would be looked at even better if those kinds of programs performed
19:37 better.
19:38 It started to look like Illinois was trending the right direction, but they've had a weird,
19:43 rocky season.
19:44 And I've never thought that Illinois looks like a really good team.
19:49 You know, Purdue, nice win today, but clearly not even close to where Ohio State and Michigan
19:56 were when they played them the last couple of weeks.
19:59 Wisconsin got their doors blown off today by Northwestern.
20:03 So it's a weird time across the league, because it's clear that everybody is still chasing
20:09 Ohio State and Michigan.
20:10 And Penn State seems to me like they're still the best of the rest.
20:14 But it's frustrating when you look at that team and you think, "Okay, they're good."
20:19 But they're not consistently actually threatening to beat the top two teams in the league, and
20:23 I want the league to look good.
20:25 Right.
20:26 It's for them, it's like, "All right, you're good against the bad."
20:29 But when you come up with the big boys, it's the same story every year.
20:33 And it's kind of frustrating that the league is so top heavy.
20:36 You have one and three in the country, and then the rest of the league just kind of stinks.
20:40 I think a fun answer to the problem is, "Welcome Oregon and Washington to the league next year."
20:48 You know?
20:49 Exactly.
20:50 And the 12-team playoff.
20:51 And maybe Penn State gets in that playoff.
20:52 I mean, look, they won the Rose Bowl, right?
20:54 So maybe they get in the playoff, and so there's an element of like, "Okay, maybe we're just
20:58 stuck behind these two superpowers that anybody would be stuck behind."
21:04 But if we were in a different situation, maybe we'd look a little different.
21:06 Because to your point, that momentum, that belief, it's contagious.
21:11 And if you can't get over that hump, it's hard to convince yourself that you eventually
21:16 can.
21:17 And it's also hard to, you lose to Ohio State in week whatever it was, six.
21:23 Their season's over.
21:24 With the way that it is now, just the way that college football is, if you don't make
21:28 the CFP, if you have any chance of going pro, you're going to sit out.
21:33 You're not even going to play in your bowl game, so it doesn't even matter.
21:36 So with the 12-team playoff is going to be awesome.
21:39 It's going to be great.
21:40 Not only because-
21:41 Should have done that way from the outset.
21:43 Yeah.
21:44 Not only because you're going to have games in home stadiums, but you're going to have
21:49 teams that should honestly get in and you're going to then allow, which will also allow
21:54 is teams to slip up more than once.
21:56 So instead of playing 10 games against the blind sisters of the poor and then two games
22:01 against real teams, you can actually schedule real games so that if you do slip up, you
22:06 still make it and have a chance.
22:07 I don't know.
22:08 The 12-team is going to be fun.
22:09 We'll have a lot of time to talk about the 12-team because obviously you can tell I'm
22:12 excited about it, but it'll be cool.
22:15 It'll be cool coming down the road.
22:17 All right.
22:18 Let's talk young Ohio State players that stood out to you here to close up the show.
22:23 I'm going to go with Jelani Thurman.
22:27 I think Jelani Thurman's got a chance to be a pretty darn good tight end.
22:31 I got to spend a little bit of time with him last winter down at the US Army Bowl and was
22:36 really, really impressed with him.
22:38 He just was pretty much never going to see the field this year unless it was a situation
22:43 like tonight.
22:44 He got the ball in his hands a couple of times.
22:46 I think some Ohio State fans are like, "Whoa, who's this big number 15 that's caught the
22:50 ball a little bit here?
22:51 This could be fun to watch."
22:52 He could be a lot of fun.
22:54 He's got that little bit of juice to him.
22:56 I think an unfair one, Carnell Tate, just because he plays a little bit, but he's still
23:00 a young cat.
23:01 I'm going to butcher this, but I'll call him Lincoln.
23:05 We're just going to go with Lincoln because I don't have a chance on his-
23:08 Keen holds.
23:09 Yeah, Keen holds.
23:10 I think he ... We'll see.
23:12 He obviously can play football and play quarterback if he's at Ohio State.
23:16 Coming from South Dakota, right, or North Dakota?
23:18 South Dakota.
23:19 South Dakota, yeah.
23:20 You don't just accidentally end up in Columbus, Ohio from South Dakota.
23:24 I'm excited to see what he has.
23:26 It was cool to see him get on the field and get to play a little bit this evening.
23:31 Glad Evan Pryor got some touches tonight, too.
23:34 Obviously, Evan's not a young guy, but somebody just ... He's been so banged up his whole
23:39 career.
23:40 He hasn't had a lot of opportunities.
23:42 For someone that has worked as hard as he has to get healthy, happy that he was able
23:47 to carry the Rock tonight seven times, so good for him.
23:52 It's a weird night to be wrapping up a win because there is a contingent of fans that
24:02 just feels like, "Wake me up when we play a relevant game."
24:09 When you look at the schedule at the beginning of the year, there are a lot of fans that
24:12 said, "Okay, Notre Dame, Penn State, Michigan.
24:15 Those are the three games on the schedule in the regular season.
24:17 The rest of them aren't going to matter."
24:19 The reality is that's not true.
24:21 They all matter, and you're trying to get better.
24:24 I thought the Ohio State team that played tonight looks like an entirely different confident
24:31 group than the team that played against Indiana.
24:35 I think Michigan State, I know what their records look like next to each other.
24:39 I think Michigan State's a better team than Indiana is.
24:44 It's hard to compare them side by side given the trajectory of the seasons.
24:49 But if this Ohio State team today played like this two and a half months ago in Bloomington,
24:58 think about how things would have been discussed the last two and a half months.
25:03 Completely different light.
25:04 Again, I know it was 38-3 was the final.
25:09 You basically didn't play your starters in the second half.
25:12 This was an evisceration.
25:13 Ohio State didn't do that early on.
25:15 They were still winning by 20 on the road against Big Ten teams, but they weren't doing
25:19 it that way.
25:21 This was as good as Kyle McCord looked.
25:23 Marvin Harrison Jr. looked like Maserati Marv.
25:26 Travion's healthy.
25:27 It's the first time the offense has had all of its starters out on the field healthy since
25:31 Notre Dame.
25:33 This team looks like it's coming into shape.
25:35 I totally disagree with the "It's a three-game season.
25:39 Wake me up when you play somebody that's relevant."
25:42 Because you need the games like this to get ready for playing a team like Michigan.
25:47 Thankfully, you've got a Minnesota team coming in next week who, by the way, beat Iowa.
25:52 They found a way to beat a really good defense.
25:55 It's really, Brendan, the way I see it, it's the beauty of a football season.
25:59 I think you actually said it in the postgame either.
26:03 It was after maybe Purdue where you said it's kind of fun that we're not covering 41-0 games
26:11 every week.
26:12 You're seeing a team grow.
26:13 That's really what you've seen this year.
26:14 We saw Kyle McCord start at the beginning of the year when everyone thought, "Get this
26:18 guy out.
26:19 Get him out.
26:20 He's horrible.
26:21 He stinks.
26:22 He's not CJ Stroud."
26:23 Then tonight, he sets his career record for throwing for 335, three touchdowns, and looks
26:28 like a guy who could lead a team to beat Michigan to compete in the college football playoff
26:34 and looks like everything you want it to be.
26:36 While this would have been nice three months ago at Indiana, it's the beauty of a football
26:42 season where a team comes in, they learn each other, they get better, continue to grow,
26:46 and they have a nice finished product by the end.
26:49 530 yards of offense, only three penalties tonight.
26:53 The Buckeyes only had 11 third downs in 66 total plays.
26:58 They were incredibly efficient.
27:03 Pretty darn impressive night all the way around.
27:06 Are there areas for them to get better?
27:08 Absolutely.
27:10 When they had their best out on the field, especially in the first half, the Buckeyes
27:14 looked a lot like the number one team in the country that the college football playoff
27:17 committee says they are.
27:19 We've got plenty more coming this week to break down the Buckeyes and Michigan State.
27:23 38-3 the final score tonight.
27:25 Bucs are 10-0 with Minnesota coming to town next week.
27:28 By the way, it was announced shortly before the game today.
27:31 Next week's final home game of the year against Minnesota is a 4 p.m. kickoff.
27:37 The game will be televised live on Big Ten Network.
27:40 For Anthony Meglin, I'm Brendan Gulick.
27:41 Thanks for hanging out.
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27:55 Have a good night everybody.
27:56 38-3 the final score tonight.
27:58 Buckeyes over Michigan State.
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