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The Paul Finebaum Show

Hour 2: Peter Rauterkus, AL.com

The Paul Finebaum Show

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 37 minutes

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2nd hour of the show and we visit with Peter Rauterkus from AL.com who updates us on all the action from the weekend in SEC basketball.. Plus we continue taking more of your phone calls. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

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

0:09.7

This is the Paul Feinbaum Show, Our 2 podcast.

0:15.3

This might be college football head.

0:18.1

We are back.

0:19.2

Everybody has been talking about it, talked about it before, and still talking about it.

0:23.2

That's what happened in Tuscaloosa's Saturday afternoon, the biggest game of the year in college basketball.

0:30.2

And Auburn, got it, Swaggerback. Peter Radacus joins us from AIL.com, covered the game.

0:36.9

And Peter, thank you very much for the time.

0:39.2

Great to see you again. So Auburn walks out of there, a big winner, number one team of the

0:45.2

country. That is not in dispute. So tell us what you saw and what you heard before, during,

0:51.3

and after the game. Good afternoon. Yeah, an afternoon. Thanks so much for having me.

0:55.8

I mean, like you said, I mean, you know, one versus two first ever, one versus two in SEC history.

1:01.4

You know, it was, I think, you know, it's a game where Auburn kind of got to prove itself again.

1:05.4

You know, there were some questions about, you know, whether they were still number one after the loss of Florida last weekend. And now, I mean, you know, talk about going into a road atmosphere playing against Alabama,

1:14.3

a team that's number two in the country, number one in the coaches poll and got a lot of AP votes.

1:18.8

And, you know, Auburn went in there and not only did they win, but they never trailed throughout the game.

1:23.1

I mean, they were in control for most of it. And I think the overall sentiment afterward was, you know,

1:27.6

I think it's just very clear who the number one team is, you know, in the country and the SEC.

1:32.2

And I think Auburn now has a very tight grip on the number one overall seed with

1:36.9

Selection Sunday getting closer and closer.

1:39.4

Peter, talk about the strategy that went in because, listen, Auburn played well, but it looked like Bruce

1:46.9

Pearl dialed up literally a nearly perfect game. Yeah, no, I think what I was most impressed

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