If Ohio State and Indiana play for the BIG Championship, do the Buckeyes rest players?

BBC Analyst Jeff Logan breaks down OSU's thumping of UCLA and begins to look ahead toward the playoffs

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:10):
Jeff Logan, LOGI, good morning.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
We let's talk about Let's talk about the game. Let's
talk about James People's hurdle, Let's talk about the one
hundred yard kickoff return, and there were some fun moments
in Saturday night's game.

Speaker 3 (00:23):
Jeff, Yeah, good morning, guys. And it was an exciting
opportunity for a lot of young people to be able
to get into the game. And that's what Ryan Day
wanted to make happen, was to see what these guys
you know, really had in the tank and put him
in a real game situation. And then, you know, James
People is Peoples has kind of been the fourth of

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the four running backs, but we got the message at CJ.
Donaldson before the game would probably be questionable in the game,
and they really basically held him out the entire game,
and it was an opportunity for another young guy to shine.
So I love the depth we're seeing in some of
those positions, no doubt.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
And we talked We've been talking for weeks Jeff about
you know, the running game and the Buckeye backfield. I
think got over two hundred yards and Bo Jackson had
a good game, and you know, we do have, really
for the first time this season, Jeff, some drama with
the injuries to some of the wide receivers. I mean
Carnel Tait. Assume it's a hamstring. They don't really disclose

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a lot of that information. I don't know what's wrong
with Jeremiah Smith. He was limited Saturday. Do you have
any insight and what's going on with those guys?

Speaker 3 (01:31):
Not anything more than what I was able to view
by just watching the physical actions of Jeremiah Smith. And
you know, I think both of the guys are a
load management issue. And Jeremiah played that first quarter, made
again one of his circus catches in the game, but
I think it became evident that they really did not
need him. And this is going to be hopefully a

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long season with another six, seven, eight games to go.
So you know, in this circumstance, as sit these guys,
let them get well. I don't think it's anything close
to a season ending or a season nagging injury and
they'll take care of business. The medical staff over at
Ohio State is as good as anybody.

Speaker 1 (02:13):
And to your point, you know, it's just a next
man up mentality. Brandon Innis comes in and has one
of his best games of his career.

Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah, he was really special. And you know, here's a
young guy that's been you know, looking and waiting for
his opportunities to shine and he ends up with six
sketches for just thirty yards. But you know, he was
he was solid. And then you mentioned the kickoff return
for a touchdown. What a great thing to happen to

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that family because you know, Sunny Styles has been the
guy that gets all of the attention, and rightfully so.
But Lorenzo, the older brother, who went to Notre Dame
originally as a wide receiver, came here in the transfer
portal to become a defensive back, really trying to find
his niche and he'll be remembered in Ohio State history
for a long time because guys, it goes all the

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way back to you know, fifteen years ago we had
a kick return for a touchdown and that game was vacated.
So I don't even know if that statistics interesting. It's
real anymore because if you throw that one out, you
got to go all the way back to two thousand
and five when Ted Gin Junior actually had a kickoff
return for a touchdown.

Speaker 1 (03:22):
And see, that's why I am against, not to get
off topic here, I am so against vacating games like
that because these.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
Stats are real. I mean, that happened.

Speaker 1 (03:32):
I mean, whether you I don't want to get into
the mess of it, but that actually happened, and those
kids play those games.

Speaker 2 (03:38):
I am against that one thousand percent.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
Speaking with Jeff Logan part of our Best Buckeye Coverage
CAMPI did you have something for that?

Speaker 2 (03:44):
Yeah, I was going to ask you, Jeff. We were
talking about next man up.

Speaker 4 (03:47):
I've heard a lot of talk from analysts when they're saying, well,
Ohio State really hasn't been that test of this season.
I'm not sure people realize just how deep the talent
runs for Ohio State. We even had a replacement I
believe it, Rightckle yesterday and I thought he played pretty
well and he's he's young. But I just don't see
a lot of flaws, do you. I mean, is there

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anything that brings any kind of concern to you? Right
off the bat?

Speaker 3 (04:13):
No, not really. And you know, I've heard the national
pundits talk about the fact that, you know, Ohio State
hasn't really played anybody. But you know, let's go back
to that opener against Texas and then traveling to Washington
and having to play at Illinois and at Wisconsin. We
didn't know Penn State was going to be a dumpster
fire like they are. But my goodness, guys, you should

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not be penalized for getting up and being prepared for
each game. And Ryan Day has talked about the fact
that it's not about our opponents, it's about us. And
there'll be plenty of those national tests along the way,
and I think Ohio State just needs to continue to
answer the bell luggie, you know.

Speaker 1 (04:51):
Again back to the injury bug with the wide receivers,
you know, and after one play, you know, Julian Sayan
popped up and you know he looked a little sore
in the ankle. Well it didn't seem to bother them
too much the rest of the way, but we're at
that time a year now where guys are going to
get start getting dinged up. And I was talking to
Matt McCoy, our sports director, a couple of hours ago.
You know, should the inevitable happen and Ohio State meets

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Indiana in the Big Ten Championship game and these guys
are still a little banged up, I mean, do you
play them?

Speaker 3 (05:21):
Do you?

Speaker 1 (05:21):
Because you, like you said, you've got five or six
hopefully five or six more games left.

Speaker 2 (05:25):
Do you play those guys in that matchup?

Speaker 3 (05:27):
Boy, that's a real good question. And you know, we
were thinking about that over the weekend. You know, if
Ohio State takes care of business in its regular season,
and let's just say that the both Ohio State and
Indiana go into the Big Ten Championship Game undefeated, I
got to believe that both of those teams, regardless of
the outcome, are going to receive buys for the College

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football playoffs. So, you know, is that the kind of
game that both teams go into and say, you know
what we're gonna do is we're gonna we're gonna rest
some of our guys that are iffy. And maybe the
Big Ten Championship Game is not as meaningful as everybody
wants it to be. And we all know why they
still play the game. I mean, it's about a paycheck.
That's the only reason that those big, those league championship

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games are played. But if Ohio State and Indiana both
go into that game undefeated, guys, the uh. The outcome
of that game is really not critical other than who
gets to hold the trophy at the end, but both
of them are going to end up with a buy