Hour 3: Bryan Fischer, Sports Illustrated
The Paul Finebaum Show
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3.3 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 38 minutes
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| 0:59.6 | However, first, going to go to Brian Fisher of Sports Illustrated, discuss his post-spring top 25. |
| 1:08.1 | Now, first question after you, Brian, is what did your movement look like for maybe what you had |
| 1:12.8 | postseason or entering your spring football top 25? Who maybe went up the most? Who maybe went down |
| 1:18.8 | the most? Oh, you know, it's always an exercise and what did you get wrong that first time |
| 1:25.2 | and throwing darts at the board? You know, that seems to be how you kind of kind of cobble these together. And I think, truthfully, you know, I don't think anybody really changed a whole heck of a lot. You know, it wasn't some massive changes. You know, like I moved Notre Dame up one spot to my number one team and really just a gut feel with a lot of them. You know, and obviously you get some reports back from spring football and some, you hear about some quarterbacks doing well and maybe some offensive lines not doing so well. And so you just kind of take it up with a, with a big amount of donation and, you know, move teams a little bit. It's not an exercise, I don't think, to move teams up or down, five, 10, 15 spots or anything like that. |
| 2:02.0 | And, you know, truthfully, to also reexamine some of those teams at the at the bottom of the top 25 where you can say, all right, you know what? Maybe I didn't have them in at the first time, but I got them in the second time around after the spring. We might need to be getting more familiar with those teams at the bottom of the top 25, Brian because they might be in the postseason competing for spots for a national championship soon. |
| 2:19.7 | Yeah. |
| 2:19.9 | Let's stay with this first. Notre Dame is |
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