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00:00Mike, you had, uh, there's 17 games this weekend that have some kind of a connection to this
00:10college football playoff and teams getting in and, and he's staying alive and all sorts
00:15of stuff.
00:16Whereas I would bet that in other years, probably 13 to 14 of those 17 games would mean absolutely
00:26nothing except who's going to play in the cheese it bowl or the who cares.com bowl.
00:33Mike.
00:34That's exactly right.
00:35Mike.
00:36Uh, Saturday night, uh, I found myself watching Texas a and M at Auburn.
00:43And in that circumstance with Auburn at four and six and a and M at seven and two, I believe,
00:48uh, why would I have watched it for eight and two?
00:51I believe I wouldn't, I would have no reason whatsoever to watch that game in any other
00:56year up until now.
00:57I'm not an Aggie.
00:58I'm not a tiger.
00:59I have, I would have had no interest in that game.
01:02I, I, now I was riveted four over times.
01:07Everybody in that building understood what the consequence was for a and M and what it
01:10would mean, uh, to the, to their possibilities of making the playoffs.
01:15I'm on Twitter and everybody that I, that I see is talking about this game.
01:19And I know it's a completely different thing than it would have been a year ago.
01:23Mike, I've been waiting for this for 60 years, literally 60 years.
01:27I, I watched my first college football game in 1968 when my folks took me over to my grandfather's
01:34house to watch Notre Dame play Purdue, we were an Irish Catholic family.
01:37Uh, so they, they were huge Notre Dame fans.
01:40So that's what we did.
01:41And, and ever since then, I've been waiting for college football to get with the times.
01:46And finally we have, and you see what the results are on Saturday from literally noon
01:52until midnight, noon with Indiana, Ohio state, uh, and then the Florida Ole Miss game at
01:58the same time.
01:59Uh, and then later on in the evening, you had Alabama, uh, losing at Oklahoma.
02:05And then the game I just described, all these games had tremendous consequence.
02:09And along the way, Kansas is, uh, hurting Colorado's chances.
02:13It was so great for college football.
02:16And I still see people, a good friend and a, and a respected columnist, Dennis Dodd
02:20today, just talking about how it's all mediocre and, uh, and it's not worth watching or not.
02:25Maybe I'm putting words into his mouth, but not what it should be, I guess, is definitely
02:29what he said.
02:30And I just, I couldn't disagree more.
02:32I think this is exactly what sports are supposed to be.
02:35We're not sitting there complaining that the Seahawks are going to get into playoffs where,
02:39or as it, as it is now, we're not complaining about that, uh, that because that's their
02:44division and they're, if they win it, they'll, they'll make it.
02:46And that's the way it should be in college football, just as it is in every other sport.