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i heart radio fox sports radio fs one so j smack and i were just talking about this wherever you may be, however you may be, listen. Iheart Radio, Fox Sports Radio FS1.

So Jay Mack and I were just talking about this, is that we both love college football.

But the sport, everybody talks about the playoff.

What the sport really needs is a scheduling zone.

So a prime example is the NFL season's just starting.

The first week you had almost no good games.

Last week at Alabama, Texas, thank God.

Which, by the way, 11 million people on Fox watched it.

So you give the audience a great game.

They'll watch.

That's bigger than the NBA finals.

This week, there's almost no good games. Miami, Texas, A&M. Yeah, like, I think that's a really good. I'll watch that game. That's good game. But the point is, we all talk about the playoff. What college football needs, it's remarkable to me that as television now pays so much money for sports. It used to be all these sports made their money

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