Hour 2: Blake Toppmeyer, USA Today
The Paul Finebaum Show
ESPN Radio
3.3 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 January 2026
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:31.0 | The pride, passion and pageantry of college football lives here. |
| 0:39.8 | This is the Paul Pinebaum Show, Our 2 Podcast. |
| 0:45.4 | This might be college football. |
| 0:46.7 | It's live, and it's always a great day here, |
| 0:49.4 | and we say hello to Blake Topmeyer from USA today. |
| 0:52.8 | This is the headline. The NCAA lied. Oh my goodness. Alert the media |
| 0:58.0 | about college sports because they have never been more popular. Can't wait to dig into that. Blake, |
| 1:03.0 | thanks for the time as always. And you caught me, the headline grabbed me when you talk about the |
| 1:08.3 | NCAA lying. I thought maybe I missed something there. |
| 1:11.5 | But your point is a good one, and I'll let you explain it. |
| 1:14.5 | How are you? |
| 1:15.9 | Yeah, I know you're shocked by that, Paul. |
| 1:18.1 | But it's really fascinating. |
| 1:19.6 | And you saw the ratings, I'm sure, for the national championship game as ESPN released, |
| 1:26.7 | was the second most watched national championship game |
| 1:30.2 | of the college football playoff era talking about this national championship of Indiana, Miami. |
| 1:34.8 | And this sort of fits with what we're seeing in college sports in terms of attention, |
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