Hey, welcome in the latest episode of that SEC podcast.

I'm yours, Michael Brent.

Go by SEC, Mike, on the Twitters.

And there he is our great friend, Stephen Lassett,

and the senior editor over at Athlod Sports.

Stephen.

How are you, my friend? Mike, I am still basking, I guess. senior editor over at Athlod Sports. Stephen.

How are you, my friend?

Mike, I am still basking, I guess, in all the playoff news, the bowl announcements.

Proud to say, we both met before the show and decided we are not opting out tonight.

So it is great as always to be with the cousins and all of the college football fans, right, Mike?

Yeah, and if there was a committee for best guest, host, whatever you want to call yourself on this show, Stephen, I put you in the field.

We ate Notre Dame and you, buddy, you would be, you would get a buy, trust me.

I've played a tough schedule.

You know, do it with the the predictions every week we do

our monday show the panic meter we've navigated a lot this season so uh yeah straight the schedules

on my side i i think i could have made some better predictions this year mike but uh we all make

mistakes right we they get a chance to prove ourselves in the playoff chase down in the bowl

season, right? Yeah, no doubt. And congrats to you. I don't have the updated, but you and JP just

both went with Georgia to win last week. Shane and I, of course, wrong again, went with Alabama.

So you guys just extended your lead to you and the cousins, we may have to, we may have to pick playoff games to break his tiebreaker. But going into the playoffs, Stephen and the cousins, just elite at picking these games. So, yeah, again, once again, if we were giving awards to best pickers it'd be you guys worst pickers that'd be me

and chain you know what are we are we gonna pick the bowl games too we've even got one extra

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