Oh, welcome in the latest episode of that SEC podcast, I'm your host, Mike Brenn.

I go by SEC Michael Twitter and man, is it slow out there for college football news?

But don't worry, we've got you covered because I just got off the line with my buddy

Dave Bartu, I teased this earlier in the week.

Dave Bartu, the only voice out there saying that the SEC needs to stay at eight games.

Everybody else is on that nine game train myself included.

But Dave Bartu, man, he's winning me over with this argument.

We went on a deep dive here, nearly 30 minutes with the CFB matrix here.

Dave Bartu bringing the heat on all the reasons.

And really listen to what he's got to say because I think he's making some interesting

points.

And I love the fact, maybe my favorite part of this conversation is, we try not to spend

too much time thinking about the college football playoff on this show because I don't

know if you guys noticed this, but head into the season.

People got to give playoff picks and their eye on the playoff.

And it's just, it's almost like to hell with the regular season.

We just don't think that way on this show because there's so many other games in the SEC

conference games, rivalry games and hell just games like Ole Miss Tennessee last season

that, you know, those aren't necessarily, I know they're, those are traditional rivals,

but they don't get to play that often yet they come together and it, one hell of a game

and one hell of an environment to, to see pin.

But you're telling me that game doesn't matter now because it had no implications on

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