Hour 3: Seth Emerson, The Athletic
The Paul Finebaum Show
ESPN Radio
3.3 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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| 0:50.2 | Welcome back. |
| 0:51.3 | Second half the show is live. |
| 0:53.7 | Your phone call is going to continue throughout. Let's talk about what Seth Emerson wrote overnight about the SEC. This is the headline in the athletic. The SEC is out of the college football playoff again. Now comes the adjustment. We assume there would be headlines like this |
| 1:14.5 | of Ole Miss lost, and there are, and we say hello to Seth. Seth, good afternoon. This is a story |
| 1:21.4 | that simply won't go away about what is happening with the SEC and the CFP. Good afternoon. Good afternoon, Paul. |
| 1:29.9 | Yeah, I think, you know, look, before this run of the last three years, the SEC won, what was it, |
| 1:38.7 | nine of the 14 national championships. Three of those national championship games were an all SEC affair. |
| 1:47.6 | So you would say, like, look, it's been just three years, not a big deal layoff. |
| 1:55.1 | But the fact that it coincides with the changes in the sport, the NIL and the portal. |
| 2:00.5 | And Nick Saban retiring, the NIL and the portal. |
| 2:10.2 | And Nick Saban retiring, to be honest there too, is, you know, something that I think makes a lot of people around the SEC go, |
| 2:13.7 | okay, you know, do we have to do something here? |
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