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It is going to be a tough weekend for Ohio State football fans as the Buckeyes are sitting home idle after a difficult loss to the rival from up north and now any chance at the College Football Playoff rests in the hands of teams like Kansas State and Utah. A loss by either USC or TCU could/should open the door for Ohio State to march back into the field of four and a shot at a national championsh...

The anticipation for ‘The Game’ continues to build as we get closer to No. 2 Ohio State and No. 3 Michigan meeting at Ohio Stadium with so much on the line. That is why on this edition of the Big Me Kickoff we went to an old friend of the site in Michael Spath to get the latest from the Wolverines side of things. Injuries have been a recent concern with Jim Harbaugh’s team, how much would the abse...

It has been a few years since Ohio State has played at Maryland and while none of these players were really involved in the 2018 game that saw Ohio State need to go to extra time to finally put the Terps away, Ohio State head coach Ryan Day remembers it well from his day as a coordinator with the Buckeyes. It is the game before Michigan, the Buckeyes are banged up and there are a million reasons t...

The Big Me Kickoff is back and the schedule keeps the Buckeyes on the road with a trip to Evanston (Ill.) and the Wildcats of Northwestern. This has been anything but a good season for Pat Fitzgerald’s squad as a 1-11 season is a very real possibility for this team. Everything looked so much more promising to start the year in Ireland with a win over Nebraska but since then nothing has gone right....

The Big Me Kickoff show is here to huff and puff and blow down the stories of Penn State either being a world beater team or world beaten team. What can we make out of Penn State? It’s a team that has looked really good at times this season but also fell apart late against Michigan in its most anticipated game of the year up until that point. We are joined by Nate Bauer of BlueWhiteIllustrated to...

In this edition of the Big Me Kickoff, we are talking about the Buckeyes and the Hawkeyes and trust us when we say that these two teams are not equal when it comes to playing football. The Buckeyes have proven to be a balanced team on both offense and defense while the Hawkeyes are anything but that. Iowa has a solid defense, but the offense has been anything but productive as the Hawkeyes have on...

It's the Big Me Kickoff and just because the Buckeyes don't have a game this weekend does not mean are not doing a show. We have seen half the regular season take place already and next week starts the second half run for Ryan Day's Buckeyes. What can we expect out of this team over the next six (plus) games? Speaking of runs, have you heard about the commentator talking about spending 28 dollars...

It’s the Big Me Kickoff and we are back to get you ready for another weekend of football. The Big Ten schedule this week is not the best with Rutgers and Nebraska set to kick things off on Friday night and the schedule really does not get much better than that moving forward. We run through the list of who is set to play this weekend and while some of the lines are close, will the nation be tuning...

In this edition of the Big Me Kickoff, we turn our attention to the next game on the Ohio State schedule as Rutgers comes to town. The last two games in this series have been a little more competitive than the previous six but the margin between these two teams is still vast. While all the headlines say that Iowa may have the worst offense in the Big Ten, Rutgers has a serious claim to that title...

The Big Me Kickoff is back LIVE here on a Friday to talk about the upcoming game with the Wisconsin Badgers. We all know this was supposed to be a battle of ranked teams, maybe even top-10 teams up until the moment that Wisconsin decided to play fast and loose against Washington State and fall from the rankings. Let's talk about the upcoming game for about an hour here on the even of the third nig...

It is time for the Big Me Kickoff and we are heading behind enemy lines to get a little intel on Ohio State's upcoming opponent, the Wisconsin Badgers. Wisconsin has been a bit of a difficult team to figure out as of late. Everyone expected Saturday night's game to be a battle of undefeateds up until the point that the Badgers dropped one against Washington State, an unexpected outcome. Like past...

In this edition of the Big Me Kickoff, we are focusing in on the upcoming game with the Toledo Rockets. This in-state team has had success in past year knocking off major foes including the likes of Penn State, Michigan, Iowa State and other and in 2021 came oh-so-close to taking down Notre Dame. Despite only being a couple hour car ride away from Columbus, what do we really know about the 2022 Ro...

The Big Me Kickoff is here and it is all about the week one opponent of the Buckeyes as the Notre Dame Fighting Irish come to town for a battle of top-five teams. We have spent the entire offseason looking at what the Buckeyes may look like for the 2022 season but what about their first opponent? We caught up with a friend of the show, Ryan Roberts of IrishBreakdown.com to talk about this epic wee...

College football gets underway in two days and the Buckeyes are inside of 10 days from their season opener against Notre Dame as fall practice is wrapping up and game week is almost here. The Big Me Kickoff could not be any more excited about these developments as the Buckeyes continue to receive plenty of praise on the national level. An ESPN sideline reporter had a chance to take in Ohio State’s...

College football is back this week with the kickoff of “zero week” but do Buckeyes fans have zero interest in the slate of 11 games? We talk about that and more in this edition of the Big Me Kickoff. There is a Big Ten conference game with Nebraska and Northwestern playing on the Emerald Isle with a game in Dublin, but will there be enough interest from fans stateside who don’t have a rooting inte...

In this edition of the Big Me Kickoff we are talking about the recently released AP Poll and should anything really be read into that at this point or if it is just more noise to start the season? Who has the Buckeyes ranked too low and does that really matter? One thing that was not low was the dollar figure that the Big Ten's television partners came to the table with as the B1G just signed a hi...

It has been a little bit since I have been with everyone here on the Big Me Kickoff but let me re-introduce myself as we get started talking some Buckeyes football. A lot going on and I have plenty on my mind as I talk transfer portal and several other topics as we get closer to the start of the season as the Buckeyes look to bounce back after a 2021 season that ended on a high note but didn't exa...

It has been a weird relationship between the Big Ten and Notre Dame and it does not appear that things are any closer today than they were months or years ago. Conference expansion has put this back on the front page of the news however and is now the last best chance to get Notre Dame into the conference? There are a million reasons why this is a move that so many people want but at what point do...

Big Me Kickoff is back with another live show and since the last time we talked, all heck has broken lose in terms of conference expansion. Never in my days did I expect to see USC and UCLA in the same conference as Ohio State and Michigan, and yet we are there now. Now could Notre Dame be giving up its independence to join the payday of the B1G or more importantly, not to let time pass it by? All...

The SEC may have had the first salvo in the next wave of conference expansion with the addition of Texas and Oklahoma but the Big Ten was laying in the weeds and on Thursday it was learned that USC and UCLA may be on the move. The news was first reported by Jon Wilner of the Pac-12 Hotline. After Wilner went public with the news, many others did their own digging to confirm the reports as the two...

We went LIVE with one of our Big Me Kickoff viewer generated shows and talked about Ohio State recruiting, including a big week at the receiver position. Plus we talked about the upcoming official visit weekend, who looks good and who could join the class? How about NIL and how one Buckeye is giving back to those who protect him on the field? All of that and so much more as we go for almost two ho...

We are halfway done with Southern Swing and in just a week have seen so much. Have you not been able to keep up with us? That's okay, we have a midway point cheat sheet to get you up to speed. We have seen so many great players along the way and we want to give you a better idea of what the landscape of recruiting looks like, not only for the class of 2023 but beyond. Be sure to join Marc Givler a...

In this edition of the Big Me Kickoff, we look back at our mock draft and grade our picks versus the actual picks from Thursday night. It was a wild night with trades, surprises and so much more as a pair of big-time receivers found themselves moving while six first-year receivers had their names called. That list includes the likes of Garrett Wilson, Chris Olave and Jameson Williams, who all went...

This week we rolled out our only 2022 NFL Mock Draft of the season and we are going to stick with it. We only went one round because anything beyond that is just guessing, but then again, is that not the purpose of a mock draft in the first place because we can assure you most teams don't really know what they are doing at this point of the game. Be sure to join host Kevin Noon on the Big Me Kicko...

game, we are focusing on something entirely different. This upcoming season will mark the 12th year of the Big Ten Championship Game in football and will be the ninth year of the current configuration of East versus West after three years of Leaders versus Legends. It has been extremely one-sided since moving to a more geographical system with the East holding a perfect record of 8-0, Ohio State w...