Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Bruce Feldman, joined, as always by my colleague from the Athletic, Stuart Mandel.

We are taping Wednesday a few days after Christmas and a few days before

Stu makes his way down to Southern California where we will both be covering the Rose Bowl.

It's a chance for us to maybe touch on some bowls that have happened, but also get into the New York six bowls,

not just Michigan, Alabama and Texas, Washington.

There's a lot to talk about.

Stu, what are you most interested about this holiday season?

Are we counting, are we keeping the playoff in there?

Are we going outside the playoff? there or are we is going outside the

it could be it could be everything i mean it could be what it could be the playoff and then what

what what other bowl are you most fascinated by um so you know i think of the new year six

bowls it's definitely ohio state Missouri, and the Cotton Bowl.

You know, I'm a little bit surprised, pleasantly surprised that Ohio State, so many of their guys are playing in this game, obviously not the starting quarterback.

So we'll see the first of Devin Brown.

We'll see a lot of, you know, and I think this has been such a great year for Missouri, and this is a great opportunity for them. You know, oftentimes these games come down to who cares more, but I think

Ohio State cares. I mean, I think, you know, I think, perhaps I'm completely wrong, but some of the

quotes from some of their players, I mean, they, you know, they haven't had a chance to, you know, they lost in the playoff game last year.

Like they, I don't think they want there to go out on the lost of Michigan.

And, you know, this is a decent bowl game, chance to be an SEC, a top 10 SEC team.

And a chance for Missouri, if you're somebody who's like, oh, that was SEC, a top 10 SEC team.

And a chance for Missouri, if you're somebody who's like, oh, that was nice, 10 wins,

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