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This is the best of the herd with Colin Cowher on Fox Sports Radio.

Welcome in. It's the herd. I'm Danny Parkins in for Colin from the great city of Chicago. It is an honor

and a thrill to be here. We're ahead of the trade deadline tomorrow, so we'll talk to Ken

Rosenthal later on this hour, see if any team can bridge the gap between them and the Dodgers and if a Cowboys personnel person is speaking they're probably saying something weird so we'll get to that as well

but i want to begin with noting the calendar it's july 30th and on aug 30th, there's a pretty big college football game.

Texas and Ohio State, which means we get to see, for real, if Arch Manning can live up to and begin to

even attempt to live up to this ridiculous and dare I say unprecedented level of

hype because I can't wait for the game. He is the most compelling story in college football this

year. A manning is playing quarterback as the Heisman Trophy favorite for the team that is the second

favorite to win the national championship.

I am not at all surprised that there is a lot of hype around Arch Manning.

But the hype around Arch Manning, to me for now, should be college football hype,

not NFL hype. And if I'm saying that, I'm more of an NFL guy than a college guy.

So I just think the place that we're in here is Jimmy Clausen-esque.

And I'll explain what I mean.

In basketball, all the time before you've played a minute of college ball, we are talking

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