This is the Auburn podcast.

Welcome on into the show.

Zach Blackerby here with you.

And I am joined for the first time on the Auburn podcast.

Actually, we've never been on the air together.

Michael Pappas who's hanging out with us at ESPN 1067.

How you doing, bud? I'm great. How are you today, Zach? I am good. I'm good. Yeah, I appreciate all the

feedback from my podcast that, uh, that I did earlier this week, all the feedback about the, you know,

I asked a lot of questions about audio quality and all that so

thank you so much for uh for all your responses and glad to get this thing going again so uh

yeah michael news came out since the last time i did a show allburn opening their football

season against the acron zips for the 2021 season.

I don't know if anyone reported it.

The place I saw was A-L.com is where I saw it first.

But you kind of knew they weren't going to open up with a big-time opponent.

They're playing Penn State like two weeks later, which is going to be awesome.

I'm really looking forward to that home-at-home.

But anything to take away from that? Yeah. two weeks later, which is going to be awesome. I'm really looking forward to that home at home.

But anything to take away from that?

I think it's a good choice.

I mean, Akron typically makes bowl games.

So we're going to, in this situation,

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