ANOTHER ROAD WIN
No. 1 Ohio State beats No. 17, 34-16, and improves to 6-0 on the season.
Paul Finebaum has made a habit of complaining about Big Ten supporters in the last handful of months. He continued this beef on his SEC Network show yesterday by directly targeting fans of the Ohio State Buckeyes.
When one of Finebaum's callers began his time on the air by labeling "Ohioans" as "whiny, arrogant and usually loud," the ESPN media personality could not pass up the opportunity to pile on. Finebaum went on to use the words "obnoxious," "disgusting," "despicable," "sniveling" and "supercilious" in describing his opinion of Ohio State fans.
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Finebaum's sentiment almost certainly extends from comments he made in August when he complained that Big Ten fans at large "act like they invented football" because of the conference claiming college football's two most recent national championships. He went on to refer to fans of such schools as "The Little Tenners" and also noted that he planned to leave the country if an SEC team did not win the College Football Playoff in the upcoming season due to weariness of the harassment he has received from the conference's supporters.
In July, Finebaum asserted his belief that Texas would "definitely" beat Ohio State in the season opener for both teams. He further reinforced his fondness for Longhorn quarterback Arch Manning by stating that, "I am as married to Arch Manning as an old geezer like me can be."
Given that context, one can understand why Finebaum holds such disdain for Buckeye fans having watched Ohio State ascend to begin the 2025-26 season while Texas has tumbled out of the AP Poll and other SEC schools have struggled to establish themselves as contenders. Finebaum also had a bizarre week in general after a report emerged that he had received a temporary ban from ESPN airwaves following an expression of interest in running for a U.S. Senate seat as a Republican.
ESPN vice president of communications Bill Hofheimer outright denied the report as "totally false" from his social media account on X.
This is not true at all. The below is TOTALLY FALSE. https://t.co/nmnBA9mj13
— bill hofheimer (@bhofheimer_espn) October 6, 2025
Finebaum appeared on ESPN's program Get Up the following day, three days before the Friday edition of his own show in which he unleashed the aforementioned series of adjectives on Ohio State fans.
