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Until Saturday: A show about college football

BIGGEST Pressure Cooker Games of 2024 + Top 5 College Football 25 teams we can't wait to play as

Until Saturday: A show about college football

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4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 June 2024

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

We are less than 100 days from the start of the college football season! Ari Wasserman and Chris Vannini pinpoint the year's biggest 'pressure cooker games', or the matchups that will draw the strongest overreactions from either fanbase and send supporters into a tizzy. Would the losing party in LSU-USC lose faith in their head coach after a season of heavy investment in the defensive staff? Which programs are the guys dying to play as in Dynasty Mode in the upcoming EA Sports College Football 25 video game? Plus, Nebraska AD Troy Dannen spoke candidly about his perception of the direciton of the sport, and Huskers' NIL coffers. Can a team like Nebraska compete in the new world of CFB? Troy Dannen video: https://www.tiktok.com/@247.huskers/video/7377540168561069355?is_from_webapp=1 Listen to our 'Secrets of NIL and the transfer portal' episode: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/podcast/83-the-andy-staples-show/episode-1117/ Rundown: - Troy Dannen on Nebraska's NIL war chest + future of the sport (3:00) - 2024's Pressure Cooker Games: Miami vs Florida (14:00) - USC vs LSU (23:30) - Nebraska vs Colorado (28:15) - Tennessee vs Oklahoma (38:30) - Texas vs Texas A&M + The Game (43:00) - Top 5 Dynasty Mode teams (54:00) Call/text the Until Saturday phone and leave us a question for a future mailbag and/or Sunday Sound-Off podcast: (316) 462-9852 Subscribe to the Until Saturday newletter & join in answering the Question of the Day!: https://theathletic.com/newsletters/until-saturday Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:05.2

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0:25.2

look after theirs with dental life. Pick up dental life in the pet food aisle. Welcome back to until Saturday. I'm Ari Wasserman joined by Chris Vanini, who I met at the

0:47.4

mall on Friday and walked around and ate lunch with. And I gotta say for like being in

0:52.4

your mid-30s, that's a really good way to catch up with somebody because you can talk you get your steps in

0:57.4

You can buy some stuff and they've got a lot of food options Chris how you doing today

1:01.4

Dude, we're both big mall guys.

1:04.0

Like I just love going to the mall walking around.

1:07.0

Look there's not exactly a downtown area in some of the places that we live or that that's very walkable.

1:12.0

But my brother came into town the previous weekend and him and I went and

1:16.0

walked around at two different malls in the Dallas area. So you and I went to a yet another mall.

1:21.2

I'd never been there before grapevine mills. Had a good time man.

1:24.8

malls are coming back every time I go it's crowded. I've read some stories about those

1:29.9

stores that are doing well with Gen Z so I'm hopeful about the future.

1:35.0

Yeah, hopefully kids get the same childhood that we got which was go to the mall

1:40.4

in high school walk around with your friends but now as an older man it's better than just

1:45.3

sitting around if you're trying to get the 10,000 steps which I currently am right now because I would love to see my

1:50.7

feet again one day. Okay we got a pretty big show today. I think we're going to pinpoint

1:56.3

this year's pressure cooker games, meaning games that the loser, no matter who it is,

2:04.0

their fans are going to freak out. And there were a lot of games to go through.

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