Welcome back to the latest edition of y'all.

Presented by Trader Joe's, I'm Bruce Feldman.

Join, as always, by my college in the athletics, Stuart Mandel.

It is Sunday morning.

We just got the playoff matchups.

Stu, what is your first reaction from seeing the bracket?

I've got no complaints, which I did not expect.

That's basically the bracket I would have put together with one exception.

I do think Arizona State should be the three seed.

But once the SMU, I mean, at one point

Saturday night, it looked like SMU is going to get blown out. And at that point, I'm thinking,

yeah, they're going to drop them out, right? Like, they were skeptical of them to begin with.

But then they came back and it comes down to a 56-yard field goal. And at that point, it was like, they can't drop them out.

I mean, I know it's Alabama, and Alabama always gets the benefit of the doubt.

But if they drop a team that lost its conference championship game on a 56-yard field goal,

there will be no more conference championship games.

And so we see that they upheld that, not just for SMUBurst,

but, you know, I think a lot of people, myself included, assumed Notre Dame would move up because they only have one loss,

but they didn't do that. They, they kept Texas and Penn State ahead of Notre Dame after,

you know, they both had respectable conference title game losses as well. What are your initial

thoughts? Yeah, I was

pleasantly surprised because I'm, you know, I think we all get to be pretty cynical, especially

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