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The Paul Finebaum Show

Hour 1: Ralph Russo, The Athletic

The Paul Finebaum Show

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2025

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

Ralph Russo who is a College Football writer for the Athletic kicks things off regarding the meetings taking place between Big 10 and SEC leaders on the expansion of the College Football Playoffs. Plus we start taking your phone calls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:30.9

The pride, passion, and pageantry of college football lives here.

0:39.7

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0:45.3

This might be college football.

0:47.6

And it is Tuesday, and the whole college football world continues to talk about what is going on in New Orleans.

0:54.6

You thought the big news was last week with the Super Bowl.

0:57.9

You have the SEC and the Big Ten big shots meeting in the Big Easy, and we are going to get

1:05.1

right to that, plus a number of other stories making news today.

1:08.6

Let's start with some headlines.

1:10.4

How about this? Michael McCann

1:12.5

may be shooting down what some folks in Georgia and Alabama think is a way around NIL by

1:19.2

protecting players tax bill. Well, you might want to think again, according to McCann. He'll

1:25.9

join us later.

1:36.4

But in New Orleans, the people that matter the most in college football are meeting yesterday,

1:40.1

today, and tomorrow, trying to figure out what is next.

1:49.0

And let's now waste a second get right down to Noah and talk to Ralph Russo, who's covering it for the athletic. Ralph, thank you for joining us, appreciate it.

1:52.0

So, set the scene for us in what is apparently going to be a very momentous couple of days.

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