Hey, it's Andy. I know you're not used to getting a new podcast from me on this day during the football season, but that's about to change because I'd like to introduce you to football and grits.

It's our new SEC football podcast, and it's hosted by the great David Oven. It's going all week. He's going to have our great cast of SEC beat riders and other luminaries from college football.

And every Monday, I get to be on.

David and I are going to break down all the action from the previous weekend in the SEC.

It's going to be a lot of fun.

We will talk about how to properly cook grits, butter, salt, pepper.

Not complicated. Northerners don't, salt, pepper. Not complicated.

Northerners don't get it, but it's okay.

We'll talk about that, and mostly we'll talk about SEC football.

It's going to be a blast.

Here is the first episode of football and grits.

Music Hello and welcome to the debut episode of Football and Grids, the Athletics, new SEC podcast.

I am your host, David Ubin, with my co-host, Andy Staples.

Andy, we got some housekeeping to get to, but first of all, it's game week.

How do you feel right now?

It feels like it's actually football season now.

It's really weird because it feels like we have not talked about the SEC as much as we would in a normal preseason.

If this were a normal year and this were

the week before Labor Day and we were talking about the SEC, we would have spent the last

four weeks going over all these various scenarios, what might happen during this season,

what the hell's Georgia going to do at quarterback? You know, can Florida overcome Georgia?

Who's going to be Alabama's quarterback as of week five? Is it going to be Mac Jones or

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