Welcome to Andy Staples on three, happy New Year.

I know you're probably about getting ready to celebrate.

Hopefully you're doing it the right way and hanging out of home because remember, New Year's Eve is amateur hour when you go out.

It is like going to the mall and shopping for all your Christmas presents on Christmas

Eve.

Don't bother.

Stay home.

Watch this show.

Get yourself ready for the college football playoff.

That's what you need to be doing.

Two semi-final games on Monday, the Rose Bowl, the Sugar Bowl.

And I got to tell you, the 10th season of the four-team CFP is the first one I felt

like where all four teams in the playoff can actually win the whole thing.

We're going into two games where the highest spread is four and a half points.

And if you look at the individual matchups, if you put out all the permutations, it feels like all four teams have a chance.

And I don't remember that happening since this thing got rolling in 2014.

So very excited about that.

But before we get to talking about that, and we are going to preview both of those games,

Richard Johnson from Sports Illustrated in the Split zone duo, podcast joins us to talk Bama, Michigan and Texas, Washington.

But before we do that, let's figure out how we got here.

Because we go back to the beginning of the season. We were talking about a Georgia three-peed.

Now, we just watched Georgia stomp on Florida State in the Orange Bowl. And it's interesting because we talked about

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