Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com Advance Sports Podcasts

In this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Nathan Baird and Andrew Gillis discuss the most dangerous opponents on Ohio State's path to winning a national title in 2024.
They rank the potential threats, including coaches, players, and teams. They identify several coaches and players from opposing teams who could pose a challenge to the Buckeyes.
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Ohio State has signed five recruiting classes since Ryan Day took over the program each having things to be excited about.
But what should we think of them years later now that players have gotten on the field?
On this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means and Nathan Baird break down Day's recruiting classes trying to figure out if the way we viewed them on Signing Day held up years later. Which classes lived up to the hype? Did any overachieve? And what it says about Day's program.
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As Gene Smith enters his final days as Ohio State's athletic director, Stephen Means and Nathan Baird decided to sit down with him for an hour-long conversation.
On this episode of Buckeye Talk, the two recap the enlightening conversation. They cover everything from Smith's background, his decisions as athletic director and how he's setting up OSU's athletic department for the future. Plus a look at how Smith views Ryan Day's first five years as the Buckeyes' head coach and why they went 'all-in' on the 2024 season.
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In this episode of Buckeye Talk, the hosts discuss Ohio State football records and potential records that could be broken in the 2024 season.
OSU has already broken its fair share of both individual and team records since Ryan Day took over the program in 2019 and a few more may be on the table this season. After looking back at some of those records, Stephen Means, Nathan Baird and Andrew Gillis look ahead to what could be the longest season in school history and predict a few that could potentially fall.
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Oho State got a surprise visit from David Sanders Jr. over the weekend as it continues to quickly build momentum for the five-star offensive lineman.
Landing the nation’s No. 2 player and top tackle would not only be a major win for OSU’s 2025 recruiting class but would also be the type of recruiting win it’s long hoped to get from offensive line coach Justin Frye ever since he was hired in 2022. Its impact would sit among some of the other high-level wins during the Ryan Day era, at least at first glance.
On this episode of Bucikeye talk, Stephen Means and Andrew Gillis look at what the most impactful wins of the Day era — 2019-present — have been. then they decide whether a potential win in the Sanders recruitment — which has gone from longshot to real possibility — could join that list someday.
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It’s the five most valuable Ohio State Buckeyes for the 2024 football season on this Thursday Buckeye Talk.
They run through the top five, which includes both coaches and players and hits both offense and defense. They covered the Buckeyes ranked 10 through six on Monday.
Players and coaches are combined in this ranking, and it’s not a best-of list. It’s value. It’s importance.
Stephen, Nathan, Andrew and the Ohio State text subscribers each ranked their top 20 Buckeyes, and the lists were then combined to rank this top 10.
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