SITE NEWS: I’d planned to do another newsletter and the subscription launch this week but allergies—please, please stop fluctuating 30 degrees in a day, Michigan temperatures, I beg you—and other matters got in the way. The subscription model, for real this time, will launch next week. I’ll have the details in Monday’s newsletter. Meanwhile, the bonus show stays free for one more episode.

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“This sounds alarmingly like Michigan’s 2020 situation.” — Your host.“I don’t think you’d be wrong in saying that.” — Patrick Mayhorn.

The solo show is now the bonus feed, though still without its own feed for the moment, because we are bringing on guests. Patrick Mayhorn (@patrick_mayhorn) of Buckeye Sports Bulletin, The Outside Zone, and Flipping the Field joins the pod to talk Ohio State’s loss to Oregon, what Ryan Day might do about embattled defensive coordinator Kerry Coombs, whether the defense can keep it together enough for OSU to remain the Big Ten favorite, surprising teams both good and bad in the conference, and more.