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I am Bruce Feldman, joined, as always, by Stuart Mandel.

Stu, as we were talking, it's Sunday night while we're taping.

I have yet to make it home from my game.

My game was a early afternoon game.

We had TCU and West Virginia, and because it was an earlier game,

I had to leave my hotel room around 1030 or 11 central time.

So I missed college game day, or I missed parts of college game day.

And I came back and I'm playing catch up

and I'm trying to figure out this bizarre controversy slash subplot has unfolded involving Chris

Peterson and ESPN. Please tell me what the hell is going on. Well, you know, since I'm on Pacific

time, I don't often catch very much of game day, but if I can get, you know, get not just myself, but my daughter and everybody going in time, you know, I might catch a little bit of it before the 9 a.m. Pacific game starts.

So I just happen to turn it on right as they were talking about this topic of, you know,

showing the soundbite of Chris Peterson,

apologizing to his fans for all the late starts,

and lamenting the, you know, the fact that people aren't going to be watching it on the East Coast.

And I'm thinking, wait a minute, they're really going to talk about this on ESPN.

You know, ESPN's a pretty involved party in this whole discussion.

Not only they talk about it, Kirk Hurstreet kind of went all in.

He said that Chris Peterson should be thanking ESPN for actually having a relationship with the PAC 12,

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