So Mr. Bender, Notre Dame game, obviously is going to be a big one.

It's going to be the first one.

But on Saturday, there's three more big games as we get into the college football

playoff and we get into finding out who is who.

I think I've said this bill before we start about the games.

I don't know that we necessarily know as much about the teams and the playoffs this year as we

have in the past.

You felt like a lot of he's like, we knew who Michigan was last year.

We knew who Washington was last year.

Maybe we didn't know as much about Bam or Texas, but we knew about those two teams.

You go back to 2018 when Notre Dame made the playoff.

We knew who those four teams were,

and you knew they were clearly the best of the best. They were the ones that belonged.

I don't know that we know as much for a host of reasons, not as much out-of-conference

action by some of the top teams in the league against other top teams and, and, you know, Ohio State didn't necessarily

have a great out-of-conference record and Oregon didn't, you know, they had the Boise game and

Arizona State, you know, Texas was, you know, everybody's kind of down on Texas because they've

only watched Texas play against Georgia. I mean, I don't know that we know a lot of these teams,

and honestly, not a lot of these teams entered the playoff on fire.

Even Notre Dame, who's won 10 in a row, had kind of an ugly win in the season.

I think you could argue the hottest team coming into the postseason right now is Arizona State right now.

It's going to make for a very fascinating first round, Bill, because, see, one,

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