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Joining you on the eve of the ReliaQuest Bowl, matchup between Michigan and Alabama.

Joining us from down in the Sunshine State is our good friend Eric Adelson here on this Monday, EA. Good morning. How are you?

I'm great, Sam. I'm just looking for parking.

Day before I head over to see the Boys in Blue.

Yeah, man. I mean, this is this matchup, obviously, as I've been saying, all morning, different than last year's Michigan, Alabama matchup, but it's still Michigan, Alabama.

It's still got Michigan fans making their way over to see the boys in blue, as they say.

And so I'm curious as you head in to watch this matchup. What are your,

what are your expectations? How anxiously are you anticipating this matchup? Because the entire

bowl season, EA, it feels like, I don't know, I'm, I feel like maybe, maybe fans are, are moving, they're making this gradual sort of move as far as their, you know, their, their acceptance of what bowl games are now. I'm curious if you've started to make that move personally as far as what bowl games are now.

Yeah.

So I went to the Pop-Tarts Bowl a couple days ago now.

It was funny because I couldn't remember the last time that I went to actually watch a game with Andrea,

because she's always covering the games.

So we sat in the stands together.

And it was actually great, Sam.

It was great because I think some of these playoff games, obviously every Michigan fan wants Michigan to be the playoff game.

But some of these playoff games are very corporate,

kind of antiseptic, a little bit bland.

And Pop-Tarts bowl, it felt like a high school game,

and I don't mean that in a negative way.

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