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Silver Bullets Podcast

Silver Bullets Podcast

Written by: Michael Citro & Chip Minnich
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 Podcast that discusses Ohio State Buckeyes football, hosted by veteran sports journalists Michael Citro and Chip Minnich.Copyright The Silver Bullets Podcast Football (American)
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  • Michigan's New Coach and Ohio State-Miami Preview

    Michigan's New Coach and Ohio State-Miami Preview
    Dec 30 2025
    We’re back from our one-week hiatus to get you ready for Ohio State against Miami in the Cotton Bowl Classic. The Buckeyes and Hurricanes figure to be one of the better matchups in the quarterfinals, and it should be an interesting game.

    Before we get into our preview, we discuss the latest Ohio State players to have their black helmet stripes removed. Practices between the end of the regular season and the bowls is always vital, and so it was for linebacker Eli Lee and tight end Brody Lennon, who both became “official” Buckeyes just two days before Christmas. That’s a pretty cool gift from Santa.

    Following our OSU camp news, we dive into Michigan’s hiring of former Utah coach Kyle Whittingham. As far as trying to erase the stench of the scandal-filled Jim Harbaugh and Sherrone Moore years, that school up north could hardly have found a better candidate to lead the football team in the right way. Whittingham’s teams are always hard-nosed, physical teams that run the ball and play sound defense. That said, will he be a good fit in the midwest? He hasn’t exactly moved around as a head coach, so it will be interesting to see how he adapts to Ann Arbor (and how the Wolverines adapt to him). Urban Meyer now has branches of his coaching tree on both sides of the greatest rivalry in college football.

    Finally, we go into a lengthy discussion of the Miami Hurricanes, who will present some challenges for Ohio State, especially when the Buckeyes have the ball. Indiana sacked Julian Sayin five times, and the Hurricanes’ strength is on the defensive line, so the slobs up front for Ohio State will have their work cut out for them.

    We talked briefly about Miami’s win at Texas A&M, broke down many of the key players Buckeye fans should watch out for, and discussed the critical matchups. We also provide our Ohio State player picks to click and tried our hand at predicting the final score of the Cotton Bowl.

    We’ll be back next week to see how we — and the Buckeyes — made out.

    We would love to hear from you, so please reach out with your feedback and questions below in the comments section or send us an email at SilverBulletsPod@gmail.com Any questions directed toward us will be answered on our next show.

    Be sure to subscribe, rate, review, share, and follow the show over on Twitter at @SilvrBulletsPod.

    As always, thanks for listening!

    0:20 - Buckeye black stripe removals and Michigan has a new coach.

    15:15 - Our lengthy look ahead to Wednesday night’s showdown with Miami in the Cotton Bowl
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    45 mins
  • Buckeye Awards Season and the Coaching Carousel

    Buckeye Awards Season and the Coaching Carousel
    Dec 16 2025
    With a lull between Ohio State games, we look at all the various trophies and awards Buckeye players piled up with their performances throughout the 2025 season. We dive into the various All-Big Ten teams as well. Who was deserving? Who got snubbed? How the hell did Julian Sayin end up fourth on the Heisman list with numbers comparable to or better than the winner (even in the head-to-head meeting)? And furthermore, how did a receiver win the Biletnikoff Award without even winning the award for being the best receiver in his conference? That’s another snub for Jeremiah Smith (and an egregious one — I didn’t see Makai Lemon’s name in the top 10 in Heisman Trophy voting).

    Following our walk through the postseason awards, we turned our attention to the coaching carousel. Former Ohio State defensive coordinator Jim Knowles only worked at Penn State for one season and is now headed to Tennessee. It’s a bit ironic that his last outing before being hired by Tennessee was to give up 500+ yards to Greg Schiano’s Rutgers Scarlet Knights. After all, Schiano was supposed to become the Vols’ head coach until the fanbase pushed back hard against the choice.

    Mike Jacobs, who played for Ohio State on the offensive line in the late 1990s and early 2000s is the new head coach at Toledo. I can honestly say I don’t remember him as a Buckeye, but now he’s back in the Buckeye State and has a solid job in the MAC.

    Finally, we discussed the bizarre case of Sherrone Moore and the ongoing issues at Michigan. While Moore’s wife and kids never asked to be put in this position, here they are. It may not be fair to them, but it will probably be some time before this matter is put to rest. The University of Michigan is investigating its athletic department’s response to previous school scandals, and there doesn’t seem to be a way for Warde Manuel to keep his job (nor should there be). We discuss the matter without getting into the salacious details or diving into reports and speculation, and perhaps the best plan forward for Ohio State’s rival is to cut all ties with the Jim Harbaugh era and start fresh.

    We’re taking next week off, but we’ll be back on Dec. 30 to preview Ohio State’s next opponent in the College Football Playoff. We’ll be watching the Miami-Texas A&M game with great interest.

    We would love to hear from you, so please reach out with your feedback and questions below in the comments section or ⁠send us an email⁠ at silverbulletspod@gmail.com. Any questions directed toward us will be answered on our next show.

    Be sure to subscribe, rate, review, share, and follow the show over on Twitter at ⁠@SilvrBulletsPod⁠.

    As always, thanks for listening!

    0:20 - Some Buckeyes won some awards, but some of those Buckeyes didn’t win some of the awards that they should have. Also, some Buckeyes may have been honored in ways that didn’t quite make sense.

    20:26 - Knowles moves on to Rocky Top and Mike Jacobs returns home to northwest Ohio.

    28:05 - The Sherrone Moore saga is odd and fascinating and sad. Michigan needs a reset.
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    50 mins
  • Indiana Rewind, Brian Hartline Leaving OSU, and More

    Indiana Rewind, Brian Hartline Leaving OSU, and More
    Dec 9 2025
    A week after we praised Ohio State for being Ohio State in The Game, the Buckeyes decided to play very unlike themselves in a 13-10 Big Ten championship game loss to Indiana. The defense did well to hold the Hoosiers’ high-powered offense to 13 points despite Kenyatta Jackson being tackled seemingly on every play, but the OSU offense didn’t do normal things in the red zone, or even things that had been successful there more often than not. There were no C.J. Donaldson runs, no Lincoln Kienholz package, and no quick passes to take advantage of perimeter matchups. Instead, we got slow-developing routes out of heavy tight end packages, one lousy Bo Jackson rush attempt, a missed field goal, and an unfortunate slip on what otherwise would have been a first-and-goal. We got an attempted fourth-down conversion at a time the Buckeyes should have kicked and a shanked kick when the Buckeyes probably should have gone for it.

    We break down a frustratingly preventable loss, check back on our picks to click, and review our score predictions to see how close we came (we did not come close).

    It was the end of a week full of distractions, and we’ll never know if they did or did not affect the team on Saturday, but after a brief detour to figure out who came the closest to predicting the final Big Ten standings, we followed our game breakdown by discussing Brian Hartline’s impending departure to the University of South Florida. We also touched on some of the coaching changes and the Penn State situation. Although we’re not recruiting guys, we also touched on some of the distracting National Signing Day activities that may or may not have also given the offensive coaches less time than they would have liked to work on some of the Indiana game details.

    Finally, we talked about Ohio State’s bowl destination to kick off the team’s 2025 College Football Playoff run. The Buckeyes are going back to the Cotton Bowl, where they’ll have a difficult first opponent, taking on the winner of Texas A&M and Miami. Both teams present challenges, and the reward for getting past the winner of that game will most likely be Georgia. We’ll have more on the next Ohio State game when an opponent emerges.

    We would love to hear from you, so please reach out with your feedback and questions below in the comments section or send us an email at silverbulletspod@gmail.com. Any questions directed toward us will be answered on our next show.

    Be sure to subscribe, rate, review, share, and follow the show over on Twitter at @SilvrBulletsPod.

    As always, thanks for listening!

    0:20 - Jayden Fielding gave Ohio State fans another missed field goal to discuss, but it shouldn’t have come down to what would only have been a game-tying kick. Our B1G title game breakdown.

    30:46 - Deciphering our Big Ten finishing predictions, the Penn State situation, Hartline to USF, and National Signing Day drama.

    54:04 - The College Football Playoff bracket is difficult for Ohio State but it could have been worse.
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    1 hr and 1 min
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