Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

On another Mark It Down Monday we begin our big-picture previews of the 2020 college football season. Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means make their predictions on what will stand up as one of the season-long topics of conversation for the Buckeyes. Will Justin Fields win the 2020 Heisman Trophy? To answer that, the Buckeye Talk crew breaks down the full list of contenders and what dyn...

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It's time for the 10th annual Big Ten preseason poll from cleveland.com, where conference writers from around the league are gathered and asked to vote on predicted preseason standings, the league champ and the preseason offensive and defensive players of the year. There were 34 voters this year, and on this Friday Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises and Nathan Baird analyze all the results. Was Ohio St...

It's time for another rapid fire Buckeye Talk episode, although there is some news to deal with off the top. On this Thursday episode, Doug Lesmerises and Nathan Baird address the first major college football star to announce that he won't play this season, no matter what. That's Virginia Tech cornerback Caleb Farley, a potential first-round pick, and Doug and Nathan discuss the decision-making pr...

On this big Wednesday Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises and Nathan Baird imagine a reality that Ohio State fans wouldn't want to consider -- What if Justin Fields played for another team? Thanks to an idea from a text subscriber, Doug and Nathan discussed worlds in which the Buckeyes had to swap starting quarterbacks with opponents. Who would win the game then? Would Fields on Penn State or Michigan o...

You can't talk about Ohio State football without talking about quarterback Justin Fields, and you can't wonder about Ohio State football without wondering about the potential and injury history of running backs Trey Sermon, Master Teague and Marcus Crowley. On this Buckeye Talk episode, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means finish up the position group previews by dealing with the quarte...

This is a quarterback question and a coronavirus question in one. On this Mark It Down Monday Buckeye Talk episode, Doug Lesmerises, Stephen Means and Nathan Baird give their answers and entertain explanations from the subscribers on a topic that can seem straight forward but might be more complicated: Who is Ohio State's next starting quarterback? If you believe the Buckeyes will play at least on...

Stephen Means is excited and you should be, too. On this bonus Saturday episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen, Doug Lesmerises and Nathan Baird preview the Ohio State slot receivers and tight ends. That means a lot of talk about sophomore Garrett Wilson, who is moving from outside receiver to the slot for 2020. But there are many other interesting guys to discuss in this group -- Jaxon Smith-Njigba and...

Something different on Buckeye Talk, as Doug Lesmerises is joined by Seth Richardson, the senior politics writer for cleveland.com, to talk about the intersection of football and politics. The fact that former Auburn, Texas Tech and Cincinnati coach Tommy Tuberville won the Republican Senate primary in Alabama last week got Doug thinking about the idea of a former Buckeye doing the same kind of th...

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Shaun Wade may have been a first-round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft if he had turned pro after last season. Instead, he's back for a fourth year at Ohio State as one of the best cornerbacks in the nation. On this Buckeye Talk episode from cleveland.com, Doug Lesmerises, Stephen Means and Nathan Baird continue their position group previews with the cornerbacks. Wade is a sure thing, Cam Brown and Sev...

It happened -- Buckeye Talk made it through the entire 12-game Ohio State schedule, previewing each planned opponent from Bowling Green to Michigan. As Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means finish the schedule with this big look at the The Game, the schedule has already changed, with the Big Ten moving to conference games only. So those Bowling Green, Oregon and Buffalo previews in April...

It's time to preview Ohio State safeties and special teams, as Doug Lesmerises, Stephen Means and Nathan Baird break down Josh Proctor and Marcus Hooker on the back end of the defense, and then discuss Drue Chrisman, Blake Haubeil and a veteran special teams group that should be an edge for the Buckeyes. That's the latest in our position group preview series on Buckeye Talk, but first on this epis...

On this Mark It Down Monday, predictions will be marked down. But first, a new recruiting class and strategy will be analyzed. Doug Lesmerises is hosting this one, but Stephen Means and Cameron Fields are bringing the recruiting expertise after spending the last couple months talking to the most important rising juniors that Ohio State is targeting in the Class of 2022. On this Buckeye Talk episod...

On this Buckeye Talk episode, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means move on to previewing the Ohio State defensive line. The Buckeyes lost Heisman Trophy finalist and No. 2 overall NFL Draft pick Chase Young off last year's line, as well as the veteran three-man tackle rotation of Davon Hamilton, Jashon Cornell and Robert Landers. But there is more talent in the pipeline. The guys run th...

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On this Buckeye Talk episode for Thursday, it's time for Phil Steele's annual visit to preview the Buckeyes and the college football season. Phil publishes his annual college football preview magazine from his office in Northeast Ohio, and he's been putting them out for more than 20 years. Even with COVID-19 threatening the season, Phil did his usual business and his 2020 preview is getting out to...

Our preview of Ohio State's 2020 schedule continues with a breakdown of Illinois with Bob Asmussen of the Champaign News-Gazette. But this Buckeye Tall Big Wednesday pod goes in-depth to explore big upsets. iI's a phenomenon Ohio State football rarely experiences, but when those days come around, they tend to linger in the memories of players, coaches and fans for years after. When we say upsets,...

It's a Tuesday rapid fire podcast from cleveland.com as Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means answer seven questions from our Buckeye Talk text subscribers. Most of them deal with the uncertainty of the college football season, but two questions stand out: • Could the Big Ten play a season if, for instance, the SEC does not? • Would it be better to move the Michigan game to early in the...

Mark. it. Down. Ryan Day is off to a 15-0 regular-season start as Ohio State football's head coach. How long will that unbeaten run continue? This week's question: When will Ryan Day lose his first regular-season game as Ohio State's head coach? The uncertainty of the 2020 schedule complicates the question. But the Buckeye Talk Crew of Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means give their pic...

It's another bonus Saturday podcast as breaking news pushed back the planned outside receiver breakdown. So on this Buckeye Talk episode from cleveland.com, it's now time to talk Chris Olave, Julian Fleming, Gee Scott Jr., Jameson Williams and the rest of the outside receivers for the Buckeyes in 2020. Doug Lesmerises, Stephen Means and Nathan Baird break all that down in their typical position pr...

The Big Ten on Thursday announced it would not play non-conference games in 2020, and on this Friday Buckeye Talk, Nathan Baird is here to talk about that and Doug Lesmerises is here to yell about that. Nathan has the facts, Doug has the rage. But why is Doug yelling? He thought the Big Ten made the correct move on this, so he's yelling at the other conferences and any other people that might have...

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Our preview of Ohio State football's 2020 opponents rolls along as we reach the Nov. 14 trip to Maryland. Emily Giambalvo of the Washington Post joins us to break down the state of Mike Locksley's program as the Terrapins try to climb out of the bottom of the Big Ten East. What is Locksley doing in recruiting to climb the national rankings, who will quarterback the Terrapins in 2020 and how soon c...

On this big Wednesday Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises, Nathan Baird and Stephen Means once again take 20 rapid fire questions from text subscribers. But there's some deep discussion off the top. The first texter asked which state, other than Ohio, is the most important for the Buckeyes to recruit. Looking at the number of players Ohio State has pulled from different states since Urban Meyer's first...