Fixing bowl opt-outs, YouTube-Disney dispute & more Dear Andy questions!
Until Saturday: A show about college football
The Athletic
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 December 2021
⏱️ 41 minutes
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Summary
In a new edition of 'Dear Andy': In the future, can we expect teams with winning records to decline bowl invites because of opt-outs? Andy poses a solution that may remedy opt-out issues. Will Texas and Oklahoma soon be home to top-tier defensive prospects now that they're transitioning to the SEC? Plus, who folded first, YouTube or Disney? Andy discusses the future of streaming and sports consumption.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, it's Andy. |
| 0:11.0 | Well, because it's 2021, I can't possibly record an episode and then have everything in the episode hold up until the episode publishes. |
| 0:20.4 | You'll hear me talking this episode about how |
| 0:22.5 | there have been three bowl cancellations, the Hawaii Bowl, the Military Bowl, and the Fenway |
| 0:28.4 | bowl. Well, Sunday night, Miami pulled out of the Sun Bowl. So we'll see if there's a Sun Bowl, |
| 0:34.3 | and if there's going to be a Sun Bowl, which would involve Washington State playing |
| 0:37.5 | somebody, it means some other bowl probably goes away because one team's out and the other team |
| 0:42.8 | needs somebody to play. So we'll see how that goes. I'm sure that the Cougars are looking for |
| 0:47.1 | someone to play them, and if somebody else has some COVID issues in one of the other games, |
| 0:51.7 | then perhaps there's a match to be made there. |
| 0:54.6 | We shall see. |
| 0:55.7 | But that's just how things are going to go this week. |
| 0:58.3 | So nothing we can do about it, but it'll be good. |
| 1:03.4 | There will be football. |
| 1:04.7 | Maybe not as much football as we'd hope for, but there's still going to be a lot of football, |
| 1:08.4 | and it's still going to be a fun week. |
| 1:09.9 | Now, on to our Dear Andy episode. |
| 1:13.2 | A special edition today, it didn't used to be this special. |
| 1:16.2 | We used to do a lot more of these. |
| 1:17.7 | This is a Dear Andy show, so it's your questions that we are taking and answering. |
| 1:23.9 | And we did a lot of these back in the day in the off season and even in season, but it feels |
| 1:29.9 | like there has been so much just one massive news story after another plus games that we |
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