Hour 3: Seth Emerson, The Athletic

The Paul Finebaum Show

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🗓️ 8 December 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Seth Emerson from the Athletic joins the show to share his thoughts on the CFP bracket. Plus Roman Harper & Cole Cubelic from "Listen & React" stop by to start breaking down some of the CFP matchups. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:48.0	And welcome back.
0:49.4	It's great to have all of you here,
0:50.8	and it's also great to talk to Seth Emerson
0:53.4	about what has been going on also
0:56.3	as well as the 10-year anniversary of Kirby Smart. How the politicking set up the SEC to get five
1:04.9	bids in, including Alabama. Seth, I am really curious to hear how this goes because I didn't realize that politicking went on in the SEC or college football.
1:14.8	So enlighten us on, I thought they just picked the best teams.
1:19.4	Oh, yeah.
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