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Welcome to the Athletic Football Show. Today's Wednesday, December 1st, which is wild to say, but here we are. I'm Robert Mays. Joining me today, the Athletic Zone, Dan Bruegler. Dane, how you doing, man? I'm doing great. How are you doing it, Robert? I'm doing great. I am so glad that we're having you on today.

It's perfect timing for a couple of different reasons.

One, your first mock draft came out on the athletic on Tuesday.

Please, if you guys have not gone and checked that out, do so.

Mock draft season is a wonderful season.

It means the draft season soon as to be upon us, which I'm always interested in. And two, we have conference championship games this weekend. So this is one of the last little nuggets of college football that NFL watchers like me, who are very casual about college football, can just settle in, figure out who they're supposed to be watching, who they're not. So that's what we're going to do today. We're going to dig into your first mock and we're going to get people a little bit of a viewing guide before a very big weekend in the college football world. One more quick note before we actually dig into all of this. You're going to be taking prospects to pros, the podcast that you do with Lance Zerline, to the athletic football show feed, starting after the season, right as draft season ramps up, which we are very excited about. And I hope that our listeners are excited as well.

Yeah, I get tweets, I think, almost every day asking, when's the pod coming back?

When's the pod coming back?

Well, it's almost here. And, yeah, it's going to be a lot of fun being part of the football show umbrella. And, yeah, I can't wait to get going with that. It's going to be great. So we're still going to figure out exact timing for that. But obviously, as the senior bowl ramps up, as draft season ramps up, you guys can find prospects to pros in our feed. it's going to be a great way to kind of round out our draft coverage as we head into our second offseason with the show, which I'm very excited about. All right. Let's get to the mock and let's start at the top. We were talking about this a little bit before we started the show. So I do not watch a lot of college football. That is something. It's important to preface this entire conversation with that. I am the most casual of college football fans. Every once in a while, I will sit down on a Saturday when I don't have much else to do and I'm not doing other things like being in a relationship and having a family and all that other stuff that I have to do on Saturdays. And I'll watch a game or two. A few weeks ago, I settled in because my fiance was out of town, and I watched Michigan, Michigan State.

And I'm watching the game, like, man, 97 for Michigan, he's got some juice to him.

Like, that guy seems pretty good.

I wonder who he is.

Fast forward a little bit more than a month later.

And Aiden Hutchinson, who is that that guy is number one in your mock draft it's probably a good sign for me as a football watcher that i can watch a guy be like

he seems good and he's the number one prospect in college football yeah and you know it's just

the timings there because against ohio state uh on saturday he finished with uh pressures according to PFF, which is the most.

They've charted in college football since they started doing it, I think in 2014.

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