Real Pod Wednesdays

The game we've been waiting for all year long is finally here. This week's Real Pod Wednesdays is all about Friday's College Football Playoff semifinal at the Sugar Bowl, starting with an interview with Brad Senkiw, who covers Clemson for 105.5 The Roar and Clemson SI. We get Brad's insight on why Clemson fans are so confident entering this game, where the Tigers are better and worse than last sea...

Ohio State is the Big Ten champion for the fourth year in a row, and is heading back to the College Football Playoff for the second year in a row, but it might not be if not for Trey Sermon. We had to start there on this week's episode of Real Pod Wednesdays, as we broke down Sermon's record-breaking performance against Northwestern, how he improved so much after a disappointing start of the seaso...

There's a lot happening in the world of Ohio State football this week. Today is Signing Day for the recruiting class of 2021, which means the Buckeyes have now officially inked another star-studded crop of players who will join the team next season. Typically, that would take center stage this week, but because of this year's modified college football schedule, Ohio State is set to play in the Big...

Although there's reason to be disappointed this week, there's still plenty of feel good about. The disappointment is obvious – Ohio State won't be playing Michigan this year for the first time in over 100 years – and we couldn't start this week's episode of Real Pod Wednesdays anywhere but there as we reflect on what we'll miss as we don't get to watch the Buckeyes play the Wolverines this weekend...

Just a few hours after we published last week's episode of Real Pod Wednesdays, 2020 struck again. That's when the news started to leak out that Ohio State was battling positive COVID-19 cases within the program, and by the end of the week, the Buckeyes had to cancel their road trip to Illinois, marking the second time in three weeks that Ohio State has had a game canceled. So that's what where we...

We had no shortage of ground to cover on this week's episode of Real Pod Wednesdays. The initial College Football Playoff rankings were revealed on Tuesday night, Ohio State just landed a pair of five-star recruits from Texas and the Buckeyes are set for an unconventional Thanksgiving weekend matchup with Illinois. But we had to start this week's episode by talking about the Buckeyes' pass defense...

Let's hope this week's episode of Real Pod Wednesdays has a longer shelf life than last week. Just a few hours after we published last week's episode, aptly titled “What's Actually Worth Worrying About?”, we got a harsh reminder of the threat that everyone has to worry about this season when Ohio State's fourth game of the year was canceled due to a spike in positive COVID-19 tests at Maryland. We...

Even though Ohio State was never in jeopardy of losing against Rutgers, most of the discussion following the Buckeyes' 49-27 win over the Scarlet Knights has been about their imperfections rather than their 3-0 start to the season. So as we started this week's episode of Real Pod Wednesdays with our look back at the Buckeyes' 22-point win against Rutgers, we spent much of the first 35 minutes of t...

For the most part, Ohio State looked like a team capable of contending for a national championship on Saturday night at Penn State. Justin Fields, Chris Olave and Garrett Wilson continued to shine , the running game took a step forward and the defensive front seven broke through in a big way to lead the Buckeyes to a 38-25 win in what might be their toughest test of the regular season. So there we...

“Some guys are walking around the locker room like, man, what happened? 52-17, that's a pretty good day, boys.” That's what Ryan Day said Tuesday regarding the expectations surrounding his Ohio State team right now – which caused some Buckeyes to be displeased by their performance despite a 35-point win over Nebraska in Saturday's season opener – and we're sharing a similar message on this week's...

We made it. Ohio State will finally play its season opener on Saturday at noon against Nebraska, so we spend this week's show talking about our expectations for the first game and what we're most intrigued to see the Buckeyes as they play an actual football game for the first time in 10 months. In the first 30 minutes of this week's show, we hit on why a mostly-empty Ohio Stadium shouldn't have mu...

We discuss why this season is national championship or bust for Ohio State, who the Buckeyes' most indispensable players are and more in our Season Preview episode of Real Pod Wednesdays. We also discuss our takeaways from Ohio State's most recent press conferences and turn on the "BS Meter" for some of the coachspeak we're just not buying.

After we finally got to watch the Buckeyes practice in person for the first time in seven months, we share our takeaways from a brief glimpse into the team's preparation for the 2020 season as well as what we've learned from the team's most recent press conferences, including why we're increasingly excited about Ohio State's offense, why we're concerned about the Buckeyes' defensive tackle depth a...

Dan and Colin draft players from Ohio State's 2020 football roster with the objective of building the best lineup to beat the other host's team in a hypothetical game. They also discuss their takeaways from Ohio State's most recent press conference, including how the running back rotation could shake out, why there could be as many as three freshmen in the receiver rotation and what Justin Fields'...

We break down Ohio State's new(est) schedule for the 2020 season and discuss the impact of Shaun Wade announcing he'll return to Ohio State (again) and how the rest of the Buckeyes' secondary could stack up around him.

Big Ten football is returning in October, and Ohio State will have the chance to compete for a national championship after all. We discuss how we got here and what our expectations for the Buckeyes are now that we know we'll actually get to watch them play football this fall.

Ohio State's season opener should have been last Saturday, so we begin this week's episode by reflecting on what we miss about covering games at Ohio Stadium. Then, we look ahead to which new NFL Buckeyes we're most excited to watch this weekend and which current Ohio State draft prospects could be hurt the most if there's no fall season. Finally, Colin gets some frustration off his chest and rant...

After another week full of twists and turns, we discuss whether we should actually expect the Big Ten to play at some point this fall and whether that will come with a chance for Ohio State to make the College Football Playoff. We also share our thoughts from attending our first high school games of the year, why the Big Ten is still failing to be transparent and why watching other teams play coll...

We talk about the continued unrest surrounding the Big Ten's decision to postpone fall sports, what the conference's plans for winter football are looking like and the ramifications of the NCAA giving everyone an extra year of eligibility. We also bring in Eleven Warriors recruiting analyst Zack Carpenter to discuss how recruiting has been impacted by the season postponement and who he expects to...

We assess the Big Ten's decision to shut down fall sports, consider how that affects Ohio State in the short and long terms and discuss what needs to happen for spring football to work.

After a busy 24 hours for Ohio State football and college sports, we break down the Buckeyes' new schedule for 2020, preview Thursday's start of fall camp, take a look at Ohio State's captains for the 2020 season and weigh in on the NCAA's decision to deny C.J. Saunders a sixth year of eligibility.

After a week off, we're back to talk about the commitments of Jordan Hancock and Malaki Branham to the Ohio State football and basketball teams and to discuss where things stand for the 2020 football season as we still have more questions than answers entering the last week of July.

After the Big Ten canceled non-conference games and Ohio State temporarily shut down workouts, we discuss what must happen if college football is going to be played this fall. We also wrap up our State of the Position series with a look at Ohio State's present and future at safety.

We discuss our expectations for Shaun Wade and the rest of Ohio State's cornerbacks in 2020, consider which Buckeyes we overvalued and undervalued a year ago and answer your questions about the basketball team's potential, which other Big Ten coaches we think would do best at Ohio State and more.

We take a look at which members of Ohio State's recruiting class of 2018 the Buckeyes will be counting on breaking through in 2020, weigh how the Buckeyes can best utilize their seven upperclassman linebackers this season and debut Three Things We Think, a new segment in which we banter about some of our Ohio State football thoughts from the past week.