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Here's your host, Brandon Adams. You know, I'm like a lot of college football fans, and I'm pretty

resistant to change. I guess that makes me like a lot of human beings in that respect. And obviously we know for this upcoming season there's a lot of change of foot for college football. One of the things we've tried to do is kind of point out, okay, well, this may be a change for the better, this may be a change for the worst. This is just sort of a thing in the middle. We're not really quite so sure what that is in terms of change for the better or the worst. We just know it's going to be different. And so I think some of what has made the buildup of this upcoming season really interesting is all the ways in which we're about to experience some stuff that we haven't really experienced before. We talked about this actually exactly a year ago going into the 2023 season of, hey, get ready to enjoy some stuff for the last time. Last chance to own the East. Last chance to, you know, do a good number of things. We knew some rivalries for Georgia would come to an end kind of on a yearly basis. Some of that's already kind of playing out for us, you know, here right now. So we were already gearing up to enjoy some of this for the last time. With the thought in

2024, we're going to be enjoying a bunch of stuff for the very first time. And of course,

that's 12-team playoff. That's new format for how the SEC championship has decided. And some new

opponents that give us a chance to also, you know, think about Georgia perhaps when it's all

said and done, you know, maybe ending this year with a kind of a new rival. And, you know, that's saying a lot because Georgia obviously has a lot of rivalries as a program. That's one of the things that Kirby Smart, I think, has always been really interesting to hear discuss because, you know, Kirby Smart gets asked these questions all the time.

Hey, what do you think about Georgia Tech as a rival? What do you think about Florida as a rival or

Auburn as a rival? And one of the things that Kirby Smart already talks about, you know,

when you have these rivalry discussions coming up is, is that Georgia, based on the size of the state,

the size of the fan base,

the intensity here in the SEC, Georgia just has a lot of rivals. And I was listening to one

of these comments the other day from what Kirby was talking about prior to the game against

Auburn. You remember how Hugh Freeze got himself in a bunch of hot water because

and Freeze is supposed to know the SEC pretty well,

but he sort of had kind of a weird way of talking about the Georgia Auburn rivalry and the ears of some Auburn fans.

It seemed to kind of downplay that a little bit.

You know, Kirby Smart kind of came to his rescue a bit while also talking about kind of what it feels like to be Georgia playing in what we think of

as kind of a rivalry game. This is what Kirby Smart said about all of that last fall.

Auburn is a border war rivalry, Alabama. Auburn is obviously an in-state robbery. That's,

that's on another whole level of difference from being over there because they live with it 365 days. You know, we share that with several other out-of-state

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