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Here's your host, Brandon Adams.

All right, coming up in a couple of minutes, have you heard any good rumors lately as it relates to Brock Bowers? We got some fun stuff on that here. Seems like we could be getting closer to a return for the best player in college football. And that is certainly exciting. We will get to that here in a moment, perhaps kind of reigniting the flames of Brock tober here in November. I don't know if that's true or not.

But we'll get to that here coming up in just a little bit.

I got a funny look from Kaylee Mansell for saying that. We have got all that coming up for you here coming up in a minute. We'll get to that and that's going to be a lot of fun. Prior to that, let me do this. I think that one of the most overused words in sports, especially in college football, is perhaps

really... I think that one of the most overused words in sports, especially in college football, is perhaps

relevant for Georgia here right now, here in this particular week where we find ourselves in

early November.

That's the word elite.

Elite is one of those things that's probably been used so much now that it sort of

loses any kind of tangible, any kind of original meaning. It just sort of becomes a little bit of an

empty phrase, kind of a part of sort of empty, meaningless rhetoric. But in reality, I think

Elite does have a specific definition that matters, especially in college football, the

conversation we have around here. To me, elite speaks about scarcity. In other words, in a category

that's rare, in a category that not many people can find themselves in, whether it be teams,

elite teams don't have very much to compare themselves to. Elite players don't have very much to

compare themselves too. And there's no doubt that elite is a word that has been able to be

described, uh, you know, a good description for Georgia here over the course of the last couple of

seasons. And, you know, elite also has a little bit of a special meaning, I think, for Georgia,

because you want to go back to the season which Georgia proved its elite status for the first time. That season began with Kirby

Smart very openly issuing a challenge to his players to prove that they were elite. Remember the

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