Hello, it is Monday, September 6th.

Welcome to Football and Grits, the Athletics SEC Football Podcast.

Welcome to this week's show.

I am your host, David Oven.

As always, with my co-host, Andy Staples on the Andy Staples and Friends Feed.

I hope you all had a better weekend than Indiana's or should I say, Indania's equipment guy.

Great googly-moly.

The first weekend of football.

Who were the chefs?

The first weekend of football.

Andy, I got to say, I think I'm getting soft in my old age.

I was getting a little emotional watching Wisconsin fans jump around and props to Fox for devoting an entire

segment on the broadcast to show it in full soundtrack, of course, by the goat, Gus Johnson,

who's more polarizing than I thought, but when he said, it's been 651 days, I got a little lump in

my throat. This weekend was just really great. You had fans, non-conference games. It feels

a little more normal. I think college football is the sport most impacted by crowds. And there

were some special ones, you know, again, at Wisconsin, not to get on the Big Ten horse, but the

smiles on the players face on the sidelines. I've got a story coming out this week talking about,

hey, fans really did change the game. You know, players waving towels. I'm for climped thinking about it, even though Camp Randall turned into a house of pain by the end of the game. The last two years have been terrible, Andy. Saturday was not terrible. So, but this is an SEC show. Let's get some Southern Fried Football. Well, it, but the thing is, it was the same in the SEC venues.

You know, it looked normal.

It felt normal.

It looked like, now, the results were pretty much what you'd expect.

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