Welcome to the Brian Bafini show, where we explore the mindsets, motivation and methodologies

of success.

Here's your coach, Brian Bafini.

Welcome to our 15th annual Bowl Prediction Show.

I know many of you tune in each year and I consider it a privilege and an honor that

you do.

A lot of research goes into this broadcast and I want to thank not only my own research

team, but Dr. Yoon and his team, Bob Barr at Wells Fargo and his team, resources like

Case Shiller, Xalman and Associates and Mark Zandiet Moody's to name just a few.

Before I get going, I want to share a couple things.

Firstly, in the world we live in today, for every one player in sports, there's at least

20 commentators.

And as we look at the sports landscape, there's hundreds of TV channels just dedicated to

showing sports on TV.

There are actually 12,000 sports podcasts.

So an awful lot of talk, but there are actually very few players on the field.

And what you're going to hear from today from myself and Dr. Yoon is players on the field.

You know, every opinion in the world is out there now.

There is actually a total of over 2 million podcasts.

Anyone who can speak has a show it seems.

But not all content is created equal and not all opinions are equal.

And I want to share for a moment, I'm going to put some credentials out there and ask you

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