Welcome to Building the Beast. I am your host, Dave Hellman, and we have got a huge episode for y'all today. It is rivalry week in college football. One of the best weekends of the year. Thanksgiving is upon us, and there's just a smorgasbord of meaningful college football from beginning to end.

Myself and Dane Bruegler walked through all of it.

The stakes are enormous all over the country.

Obviously, there are playoff scenarios galore, teams playing for spots in the postseason, players playing for postseason awards.

On top of that, for our purposes as draft evaluators,

this is the last big opportunity for a lot of college football players

to put some good film out there.

So a lot to play for for everybody on a loaded weekend.

Dana and I walked you through all of the biggest matchups, all the biggest storylines.

Great episode.

Let's get into it.

Dane, we all know what week it is.

It's a holiday that I get super excited for every year.

But I'm going to try to spin the topical conversation into something that pertains to us here at Building the Beast.

So forget about actual Thanksgiving dinner for a second.

When it's Friday afternoon and you're settling in to watch the Egg Bowl or whatever else is on Iowa, Nebraska,

whatever game peaks your interest on Black Friday,

what leftover are you belining for?

Like, what's your favorite thing to make a plate of on the day after Thanksgiving

when you're watching football?

So every Friday after Thanksgiving, we go and get the Christmas tree that morning.

Classic Americana.

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