Welcome to the Andy Staples Show presented by Sling.

I am here with Ari Wasserman.

We are picking games.

It is going to be a lot of fun today because this week, too, Ari, it doesn't look as sexy on the surface, but some of these games are very interesting.

And I will say, if you're in our Run Your Pool contest, you notice a ton of weird, huge lines in some of these payday games, like 50 plus point lines.

So that one is going to get really weird this week.

Two comments.

One, you said on an earlier show this week that you thought that this was a dry slate of games

and that you just said i've also changed my mind i think the games are going to be awesome this

week yeah and second thought was if you watch the NFL game like most people are either

watching this live have or listening tomorrow did there's no comparison to the product of the two.

You know, like I love watching the NFL.

I love football.

But like the college games are just so much more entertaining.

Like I just think the college games are better product.

It's a clean, sterile environment at SoFi Stadium.

Obviously the teams that we're playing are playing at a super high level.

And the bills look, wow. Like Josh Allen picking up exactly where he left off in the playoff

game against the chiefs. Do you guys want to start the college football pickum podcast with an NFL

hot take? I go for it because we all watch the game. It's the first NFL game this season.

Okay.

I don't know anything about the NFL other than watching it and consuming it like you all do.

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