Oct 1, 2026 · 57 min · 14 segments
On the latest edition of The Game 365, Seth Shaner and Brian Inglis talk about the upcoming game for Ohio State at Iowa. Will OSU play to its strengths? They also talked about Michigan after its…
Brian InglisHostHello, and welcome to The Game 365, where we talk Ohio State football all year round, and then we always keep an eye on that team up north, which if you didn't know, Brian, they lost last weekend.
He said, uh, "Western Michigan and all of college football, Iowa has your back." Uh, th- you know, that team up north being the villains is, is fine by me.
Yeah, and if you see the video, you know, it's like filmed from the bottom, and they're jumping around and screaming, and in their ties with the whole nine.
There was a time, oh, so many years ago, where if you sat up in C deck and you're around Mr. Joe Schmo fan, it would be common to hear, "You can't just line up and be tougher than the other team.
And toughness, toughness back then meant you just line up and run right up the middle and you better get the yard, right? Um, toughness, I don't know.
I, I saw Tony Gerdeman tweet, "The average margin of victory against Iowa, Jim Tressel was 5.8 over six games." That's, that's a little more sample size.
Urban Meyer was actually negative 10 and a half in only two games, 'cause they got destroyed the one game.
And Ryan Day in two games, people, people are hanging that loss, 'cause he was the offensive coordinator in 2017.
People have that memory, 'cause that is the last time Ohio State went out there, of that.
We've talked at length, especially when discussing Ryan Day, about the imposition of will, and that is not just as you alluded to the idea about, "Hey, let's line up 11 on 11 and plow forward and we can get our two yards no matter what they do." It's, no it's the idea of we're better, we have better athletes, we're gonna dictate how the game goes to you.
Because Iowa makes a living, and has so for decades certainly under Kirk Ferentz, is that they get you down into the mud to play their style of game, and they're better at it.
And that sort of like rounds the edges of your talent to where if I can trick you...
It's, it's what happened basically in the Michigan game in 2024 for Ohio State is if I can trick you into playing my pace of game, then I have the advantage because I've almost taken your athletes on the fringe out of the game because I've, I've convinced you to play in a phone booth when you're not built to do so.
Hello, and welcome to The Game 365, where we talk Ohio State football all year round, and then we always keep an eye on that team up north, which if you didn't know, Brian, they lost last weekend.
He said, uh, "Western Michigan and all of college football, Iowa has your back." Uh, th- you know, that team up north being the villains is, is fine by me.
Yeah, and if you see the video, you know, it's like filmed from the bottom, and they're jumping around and screaming, and in their ties with the whole nine.
There was a time, oh, so many years ago, where if you sat up in C deck and you're around Mr. Joe Schmo fan, it would be common to hear, "You can't just line up and be tougher than the other team.
And toughness, toughness back then meant you just line up and run right up the middle and you better get the yard, right? Um, toughness, I don't know.
I, I saw Tony Gerdeman tweet, "The average margin of victory against Iowa, Jim Tressel was 5.8 over six games." That's, that's a little more sample size.
Urban Meyer was actually negative 10 and a half in only two games, 'cause they got destroyed the one game.
And Ryan Day in two games, people, people are hanging that loss, 'cause he was the offensive coordinator in 2017.
People have that memory, 'cause that is the last time Ohio State went out there, of that.
We've talked at length, especially when discussing Ryan Day, about the imposition of will, and that is not just as you alluded to the idea about, "Hey, let's line up 11 on 11 and plow forward and we can get our two yards no matter what they do." It's, no it's the idea of we're better, we have better athletes, we're gonna dictate how the game goes to you.
Because Iowa makes a living, and has so for decades certainly under Kirk Ferentz, is that they get you down into the mud to play their style of game, and they're better at it.
And that sort of like rounds the edges of your talent to where if I can trick you...
It's, it's what happened basically in the Michigan game in 2024 for Ohio State is if I can trick you into playing my pace of game, then I have the advantage because I've almost taken your athletes on the fringe out of the game because I've, I've convinced you to play in a phone booth when you're not built to do so.
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