Football is coming: Fire away with your questions for the Wednesday edition of The Bill and Doug Show
We'll turn the mid-week show into kind of a Soundoff.
COLUMBUS — We usually focus on taking your questions for Subscriber Soundoff on the weekend. This week, let’s take a bunch of questions for the Wednesday show.
Fire away. This is a good chance to get some things off your chest and get some ideas out of your head before the Ohio State opener against Ball State on Sept. 5.
These are your No. 1 Ohio State Buckeyes we are talking about, with the AP poll on Monday agreeing with the previous coaches poll.
Ohio State received 78 first-place votes between the two polls. Six other teams received a combined 63 votes.
Tell us what’s on your mind about the Buckeyes, the Big Ten, the national CFB picture, other sports, food, pop culture or anything else.
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A few thoughts, I'm a bit surprised by the media voting the 2026 version of OSU as a number one team across the polls. We all know OSU reloads annually but there are a few teams out there looking pretty great this year. Last week my biggest concern was the RB room, clearly Day and staff are feeling better about that group.
Question, between the TE room and the kicking room which one poses the biggest concern from a week to week consistency perspective?
Even before Ryan Day's recent Luke Fahey comments, I was perplexed by what has seemed to me like a blasé attitude from both the beat and the fan base toward Ohio State's QB depth this year. I get that Tavien St. Clair has the backstory, the tools, and the ceiling to one day be the name on OSU's all-time best-selling jersey, but I haven't been able to connect those dots to 'what more could you want in a backup QB' or why 'player OSU can least afford to lose in 2026' isn't Julian Sayin, end of discussion.
Suppose Sayin gets abducted by aliens in September. Are we really saying that just because St. Clair is SO traits-y we should expect him to rise to the occasion at Iowa, at Indiana, and vs. Oregon? In the likely event that Gary Patterson has something up his sleeve at another tough road game, that's a real path to being out of playoff contention with pumpkins still on porches.
What more could you want from your backup QB? Experience. Even with a lower ceiling. Hopefully Sayin stays healthy and this remains a complete non-issue all season. But given this depth/schedule difficulty setup, despite all the calls for Sayin to "use his legs" and be "more of a playmaker," it won't surprise me at all if Day's trademark conservatism with his starting QB's health manifests once again. And I for one agree with that bubble wrap approach, this year anyway.