Buckeye Talk: Ohio State Podcast By Cleveland.com

Are there freshmen who might be ready to take starting jobs away from Ohio State veterans next season? On this daily Rose Bowl podcast we are looking ahead, because, again, no one really cares that much about Washington. So Doug Lesmerises answered your questions about Ohio State recruiting, about California recruiting, about the H-backs next season, about Purdue and Nick Bosa, and about the freshmen, especially on defense, who will push for playing time in 2019. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sorry we're late getting this to you, but here is our first daily Buckeye Talk from the Rose Bowl. Doug Lesmerises is here in Los Angeles and breaks down everything that happened with Ohio State interviews and practice on Thursday as the Buckeyes get ready for the Jan. 1 Rose Bowl against Washington. The plan is to do daily half-hour podcasts, but Doug likes the sound of his own voice (and coughs), so this one checks in at over 50 minutes. Topics include: • Dwayne Haskins and the NFL Draft• Greg Schiano and the Ohio State defense• Urban Meyer's shadow and Ryan Day• Washington's secondary• The Buckeyes as nearly 7-point favorites Doug will drop daily pods on Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, before a final podcast after the game for Wednesday. Stick around all week. And thanks as always for listening to Buckeye Talk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ohio State signed a 15-player class on National Signing Day on Wednesday, but those recruits weren't the only players shaping the future of the Buckeyes. On this Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises and Stephen Means talk about five-star defensive end Zach Harrison and the OSU class ranked third overall in average player rating. They also take on the possible transfer to Ohio State of Georgia quarterback Justin Fields and what that might mean for current OSU QB Tate Martell. Stephen and Doug recorded this podcast in a Panera Bread on Ohio State's campus Wednesday night, and while they were talking about the quarterback position, guess who walked in? Tate Martell. It was that kind of day and that kind of podcast. Oh, they also addressed whether the story of four robots killing 29 scientists in Japan was true or not. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A whole lot is changing with Ohio State football, including, maybe, the way the Buckeyes compete for a championship. This Buckeye Talk episode is chock full of Ohio State info as Stephen Means and Doug Lesmerises join you from the Woody Hayes Athletic Center, where on Wednesday they spoke with about 15 OSU players in the final interview session in Columbus before the Buckeyes head for California and the Rose Bowl after Christmas. Doug is back from sounding like he was dead on last week’s podcast, having staved off influenza, and he and Stephen go into everything going on with the program, from what’s next for Ryan Day to what’s ahead on National Signing Day on Dec. 19 to the quarterback battle next season. They did not discuss anything about Washington, the Rose Bowl opponent, because no one cares about that yet. They did talk about how soon an eight-team playoff could arrive in college football. There’s a lot going on and they’re here to share it with you on this Buckeye Talk, with 90 percent less coughing.

Urban Meyer will finish his Ohio State career at the Rose Bowl. Ryan Day will take over as the full-time head coach on Jan. 2. Crazy year, eh? On this edition of Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises sat in his basement and sounded like Eeyore while complaining about being sick, but he also managed to squeeze in many of the more than 100 questions listeners had on this momentous day for the OSU football program. Why did athletic director Gene Smith choose Day to take over? Which current assistant coaches will Day keep? What’s a reasonable level of expectation for success with Day? Sorry for my voice and for the cough drops, and thanks as always for listening to Buckeye Talk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ohio State is headed to the Rose Bowl. So what happened with the College Football Playoff? On this latest Buckeyes Talk Podcast, Stephen Means and I take all your questions about the 12-1 Big Ten champs and their postseason, and why that postseason doesn’t include a shot at winning a national title. Normally, this lead-in in longer, but we didn’t get much sleep and we know you’re just hear to listen. So here you go. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ohio State is No. 6 in the latest College Football Playoff rankings and we're back with another Buckeye Talk Podcast to attempt to crawl into the minds of the playoff committee members. Doug Lesmerises and Stephen Means take all your questions on the Buckeyes' current playoff chances. We imagine a world where Dwayne Haskins is back at Ohio State next year, even though he won't be. We praise again the Buckeyes who played best in the Michigan win. And we do it all from McDonald's - they let us inside this time. But that's not all. Two guests join us. First is former Ohio State running back Robert Smith of Fox Sports who revists the Michigan victory, ruminates on 14 out of 15 for Ohio State in the rivalry and tells us where Urban Meyer and Jim Harbaugh go from here. Then we have Ralph Russo, the Associated Press national college football writer. He puts Ohio State in a national context for us, imagining what the Buckeyes might do against Alabama, what they might do against Oklahoma and where the OSU program stan

Ohio State thumped Michigan 62-39. Yeah, you saw it. But how do you explain it? Stephen Means and Doug Lesmerises of cleveland.com took all your questions after the Buckeyes won the Big Ten East and moved onto the Big Ten Championship by beating Michigan for the 14th time in 15 tries. We were so eager to get to your questions, we answered them inside a car in the parking lot of McDonald's. It's a postgame Buckeye Talk about the 11-1 Buckeyes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the Michigan week episode of Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises and Stephen Means of cleveland.com address not only which team should win, but what the outcome will mean for both programs. Ohio State and Michigan are both 10-1, with the Buckeyes No. 10 in the College Football Playoff rankings and the Wolverines No. 4. The result Saturday will affect both programs and how coaches Jim Harbaugh and Urban Meyer are viewed in victory and defeat. We touch on Thanksgiving a bit, but once again, there's so much football intrigue going on with the Buckeyes, it's hard to spend too much time talking stuffing and pumpkin pie. So let this version of Buckeye Talk fill you up, and thanks as always for listening. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Yes, 51 minutes and 535 yards. Ohio State gave up that against Maryland on Saturday, and won anyway. On this postgame version of Buckeye Talk, Doug Lesmerises and Stephen Means try to figure out what happened, whether the OSU defense can be fixed, and how the Buckeyes could possibly compete with Michigan next week. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is a giant Buckeye Talk episode, basically three podcasts in one - on the Ohio State team, on the College Football Playoff and on Dwayne Haskins as a Buckeye and an NFL prospect. First, Doug Lesmerises and Stephen Means talked about the latest story that angered Ohio State, then answered a bunch of your questions on Tate Martell, Michigan, press conferences and more. Then, Ryan Aber, the Oklahoma writer from The Oklahoman, joined to talk about how fans of the Sooners are viewing their team. If you're an OSU fan concerned about your 9-1 team and its playoff chances, guess what - Oklahoma fans are just like you. Then we welcomed Ian Wharton, who provided the best Dwayne Haskins breakdown you'll get anywhere. Wharton analyzed Haskins this year, compared him to recent quarterbacks drafted in the first round and discussed where he could go in the 2019 NFL Draft. In Wharton's opinion, it's very high. We had some editing issues, so if the audio quality is a little lacking at times, we apologize. But the quality

Ohio State beat a top 20 team on the road by 20. What else do you want from the Buckeyes? How much better could they get? On this postgame Buckeye Talk Podcast, Stephen Means and I closed down the pressbox in Spartan Stadium by answering your questions for 45 minutes on Ohio State's 266- victory We started with the way the Buckeyes used Tate Martell, then got into the defense, punter Drue Chrisman and just how much more the Buckeyes could show us this season. Ohio State travels to Maryland next week before hosting Michigan to end the season. They still have a path to the College Football Playoff, but did they pass the eye test on Saturday? Take this ear test by listening to the latest Buckeye Talk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

No. 10 Ohio State isn't much of a favorite (just 3.5 points) at No. 18 Michigan State on Saturday, and the Buckeyes are looking like they'll be underdogs when they host No. 4 Michigan to end the regular season. Kind of a weird spot for Ohio State at the moment. At 8-1 and 5-1 in the Big Ten, are the Buckeyes about to play their best game of the year, or will they continue to be stuck and searching, at least in a few areas? On this episode of Buckeye Talk, new cleveland.com OSU writer Stephen Means joins Doug Lesmerises for his first full midweek podcast, after debuting in the postgame podcast following the Buckeyes 36-31 win over Nebraska. You had a lot of questions for Stephen about his food preferences, and we got to those. But first, we looked at the Buckeyes from a positive angle, as requested and suggested by one listener who found the postgame pod a little too negative. This isn't a perfect team, but for at least the first part of this episode, we looked at what is working for the Buckeyes and how it mi

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- There have been plenty of questions with Ohio State this season - the run game, the red zone offense, the defense in general. But after the Buckeyes' 36-31 win Saturday over 2-7 Nebraska, some fans questioned something else - Ohio State's leadership, energy and will. On this postgame Buckeye Talk podcast from the hours after the Buckeyes moved to 8-1, Doug Lesmerises is joined by new cleveland.com Ohio State writer Stephen Means, who covered his first game in his new assignment on Saturday. As usual, your questions drove the discussion. And despite the fact that Ohio State did get a win after losing to Purdue two weeks ago and then getting a week to fix things, there weren't a lot of positives in the discussion. So what do the Buckeyes still need to fix? And will they find their way? It's another episode with a search for answers. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this latest episode of Buckeye Talk, there's a lot of Buckeye talking. Doug Lesmerises delved into Tuesday's interview with Urban Meyer in which the Ohio State head coach revealed the seriousness of his health issue, as he deals with a cyst in his brain. Doug has written about that, but here he went into more depth about how Meyer was talking about it and what exactly the coach is dealing with. But we didn't stick only to Meyer's health. There's too much going on with the No. 10, 7-1 Buckeyes to do that. So in answering your questions, Doug dug into what's going to happen with the run game, the recruiting misses on the offensive line, what has and hasn't changed with the defense and even an alternate history of J.T. Barrett's career. No co-host this week, just Doug, but there were enough different things to talk about that you won't get bored. And the big news is that our new Ohio State writer, Stephen Means, started Wednesday and he should be joining Buckeye Talk shortly. Thanks for listening. See acast

Once Urban Meyer figures out what's needed to fix the Ohio State Buckeyes, will the three-time national championship coach be willing to make the necessary changes? On this mid-week episode of the Buckeye Talk Podcast from cleveland.com, the fallout from the 49-20 loss ot Purdue is still in the air as Doug Lesmerises is joined by guest co-host Seth Shaner from a quaint library conference room. Doug and Seth took a bunch of your questions, including one on what things would look like if Joe Burrow was the Ohio State quarterback. And what would Jim Tressel have done if he had Dwayne Haskins as his quarterback? There are a lot of changes that fans would like to see made with the Buckeyes suffering their first loss, and Doug and Shane took on most of them. The Buckeyes don't play this weekend, so they have some time to adjust. Thanks again for listening to Buckeye Talk. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ohio State was upset by Purdue 49-20 on Saturday night, and a lot went wrong. Urban Meyer knows that, and so do you. Ohio State now embarks on a two-week plan to fix these issues, and we embarked on a postgame Buckeye Talk Podcast after our loyal listeners sent in 149 questions on Twitter after Doug Lesmerises put the call out after the loss. Doug didn't get to all of them, sadly, because our podcast hosting platform can't handle an 11-hour show. But Doug hit a lot of the main topics, from Urban Meyer to Bill Davis to more Bill Davis to the run game to more Bill Davis. As always, we appreciate you guys engaging with the podcast. We'll be back Wednesday with the usual mid-week pod to get into everything we didn't touch on here. But for now, here's almost an hour of postgame podcasting about the 7-1 Ohio State Buckeyes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nick Bosa's college career ended this week, as Bosa's family told Urban Meyer that he's focusing on rehabbing his injury, and then preparing for the NFL Draft, rather than attempting to return to Ohio State late in the season, or maybe for bowl season. So what now? On the latest episode of Buckeye Talk from cleveland.com, Doug Lesmerises is joined by guest co-host Chad Peltier to answer that question. Peltier digs in on OSU numbers when he writes about the Buckeyes for Land-Grant Holy Land and Football Outsiders, and he brought that analytical perspective to a full discussion about the Buckeyes. The focus early was on the Ohio State defense creating, and giving up, explosive plays, and whether that can be a winning formula. Then Doug and Chad took your questions and got into red zone offense, reasonable expectations for the Buckeyes, cornerback play and what's up with the run game. It's the Buckeye Talk you know and love with a little twist. Thanks, as always, for listening. See acast.com/privacy for privacy

Doug and Bill break down Ohio State's win over Minnesota, and answer your questions See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Doug and Bill break down the Ohio State vs. Alabama conversation, and answer your questions on the Buckeyes. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices