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Another edition of the Late Kick Extra podcast, Tuesday, July 20th, year of Our Lord

2021 jam-packed, as jam-packed can be, really liking the new format, got some good feedback,

so the new format is I kind of interwind the housekeeping news and notes throughout the podcast.

We dive right in.

This is a college football mailbag.

We do it Tuesday and Thursday morning.

Josh Pate706 at gmail.com. If you want to email a

question at late kick Josh, Twitter, Instagram, follow and submit via DM questions there. We're going to

kick it off with something that about 20 of you have asked me about just as I was sitting down to

record. And it's not easy for me. I want to, want to put that out

there. This is not easy for me. Some people love saying I told you so. I only kind of like saying

I told you so. Let me hit you with this. Ross Delinger, who works for Sports Illustrated, has really

done a good job of covering things like the whole COVID situation last year.

He was really, really on the forefront with a lot of the information.

But he's also at the forefront and is well sourced on this whole college football playoff story.

So he put out a story earlier this morning that was talking about the Rose Bowl and will they budge in this whole thing?

And if they won't, is there a workaround?

Or is the college football collective

powers that be infrastructure? Are they ready to just move on and say, well, we can do this with you or

we can do this without you? Then that's what the story was about. But there was a bigger takeaway,

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