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Okay, I want to spend 10 minutes on college football. So my prediction before the year was Ohio State would lose at Opson Stadium, would play Oregon again, and beat them, and would play in the national championship against the Texas Longhorns. So right now, Texas and Ohio State, in my opinion, looked like the two best teams along with Oregon. Notre Dame, Penn State, also very, very good.

So again, it's big brands.

You could put 74 teams in this tournament.

It just doesn't matter.

College football, even more than college basketball,

because you have to have depth in football because there's a regulated level of violence.

I thought Ohio State, I think Ohio State, Texas, and Oregon feel like the best teams.

I thought it was interesting against Indiana.

I thought the game would be close.

I like the Buckeyes close.

I thought it was a real moment where everybody was selling me BYU.

No, everybody is selling me Indiana.

They just, they looked nervous.

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