Here's the plan for today.

Matt Liner. We're going to preview the playoffs and he's going to give us some great stories

about his national championship games.

I'll give you my picks and we have life advice.

Happy New Year.

Okay, excited to do this before the big games get started in college bowl season.

Matt liner, USC legend, Manhattan Beach legend, also part of Fox Sports Coverage, Big Noon kickoff.

All right, what's up, man? How are you doing? I'm good man, how are you?

Good, good man, fired up for these games.

Let's start here.

Turn around, it just must be nice, man.

I know, we have the shades close too.

You're such a West Coast guy now, you're a so-cal guy, I love it. I know, I'm just, I'm relaxed to just know, there's no edge to me anymore. I've lost on my edge, but I'm happy. That's good. It makes you happy, man. It does. It's hard to be in a bad mood when you walk outside and you're like, you know what, today's still going to be all right.

Let's dig into this. Who are you most surprised of

that are in the final four here in the playoff?

It's a good question.

Washington, I honestly thought Oregon was gonna beat them

in the pack-told title title game and I honestly still think Oregon is one of the

four best teams in the country but look I give Washington a lot of credit man they they had that little kind of couple games in the middle of year where you're just like God this team and I think it was Arizona State USC to come down the wire Arizona took him down to water

Arizona to come down to the bar earlier in the season.

But they just found ways to win.

And that offense is absolutely dynamite.

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