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It is Sunday night, January 16th, the Eover Lord, 2022-packed high atop snowy, frozen downtown Nashville.

But look, I got Director Colin in the house.

I got producer Jesse in the house.

I'm here.

Imagine letting your show be canceled by a mere winter storm.

We have stared winter down in the face twice this month, and we're two and oh.

You know, we don't do things like canceling the show. And for that matter, we don't quarterback sneak on a, what do we have, like, less than 20 seconds to go on that game? Believe it or not, we do watch the NFL playoffs here. So the Niners advance on a very, very peculiar set of circumstances late in the game. But look, we got Walde Wall College football to talk about tonight.

There's a blueprint that a lot of you want to know about. And that blueprint is, how do we beat the SEC? How do we take down the SEC? Well, firstly, you don't need to take down the SEC. You need to be able to compete with the best teams in the SEC. So let's delineate there. Let's line in the sand this thing. I'm going to talk about it tonight. Very simple five or six or seven step process. But these are things that are realistic. These are things that USC easily could do. These are things they could do. These are things Miami could pull off. North Carolina could pull this off. Michigan could pull this off. So this is not just a southern thing. They don't have the blueprint.

Once you get past a certain longitudinal latitude, you can't really pull it off anymore, we will discuss tonight. I promise you everything we're going to list works and it is possible for programs

outside the south. Huge portal moves today. Arkansas's made some moves. Florida may be on the

precipice of making more moves. Texas has made a big move today. And's made some moves. Florida may be on the precipice of making more moves.

Texas has made a big move today. And could we have more than just USC involved with Caleb Williams?

I ask that in a very open-ended fashion, really listening to sort of the drumbeat from different

parts of the country, some interesting times in the portal. Also, there's some rumors about guys who aren't even in yet, but could be in. Looking at Darnell Washington, for instance, at Georgia. I'm going to tell you everything that we know and can responsibly report tonight. The mood tracker is back. I asked you guys, give me feedback. What do you want more of? And so many of you said, I love the mood tracker.

You know, a lot of you are like a New Mexico state fan, and you know your team's not necessarily

going to contend for a national championship. It's not you guys versus Auburn, but you're still

fascinated by the inner workings of other programs. It's back. We're going to do dozens of

these throughout the spring, but it's back. We're talking Florida Gator football tonight. I am very, very intrigued by the prospects.

Number one, the prospects they're bringing in in terms of recruits, and the number two, just the

prospects of the program overall. And we got wide-ranging versions of the mailbag tonight.

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