About this episode

The episode discusses Ohio State's underdog status against Texas and highlights key players and matchups.

Ohio State is not an underdog very often, but the Buckeyes are 1.5-point underdogs in the matchup at Texas on Saturday. On today's show, Dave Biddle and Matt Baxendell talk all things Buckeyes-Longhorns, discuss the rise of freshman defensive lineman Khary Wilder and more. That is coming your way on the Wednesday 5ish. (1:45) - Intro (2:13) - Underdogs at Texas (3:14) - Thoughts on Texas DC Will Muschamp (4:49) - How much better is Arch Manning this year? (6:14) - Showcase game for Julian Sayin (9:02) - We're wild for Khary Wilder (11:05) - The freshman class overall is impressive (13:08) - Buckeyes have 8 key players who are from Texas (15:10) - One of them is WR Devin McCuin who looks great (22:40) - O-line troubles (26:52) - Zion Grady starts at DE (28:47) - What's the latest with Qua Russaw? (29:46) - Ja'Kobi Jackson as RB2 (32:22) - MAC not going down without a fight

People in this episode

Hosts: Dave Biddle, Matt Baxendell

Topics covered

• Ohio State football
• Texas Longhorns
• freshman players
• defensive strategies
• key players
• O-line issues

Keywords

• Buckeyes
• Longhorns
• Khary Wilder
• Arch Manning
• Devin McCuin
• O-line troubles
• Texas DC
• freshman class

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Ohio State, Texas, MAC

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