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With Tim O'Malley and Pete Sampson, I'm Tim Priester.

It's Thursday, January 10th, and we are back in the podcast room here to, actually, quite a bit has happened since last week when, well, first of all, Mellie's healthy this week.

So we got him back in the mix.

But of course, Julian Love and Miles Boykin announcing that they're going to test the NFL waters.

Kareem and O'Quara will not, which is great news for Nordame.

Autry Denson, Charleston, Southern possibility.

Clemson hammered Alabama.

Didn't think that we would be saying those words.

I know you predicted.

I know you didn't.

And then Kyle Hamilton in an All-American game, which I watched, I want to talk a little bit about that.

But, well, let's start with the national championship game.

We don't want to get too deep into this because it's already becoming ancient history in our

world. But I thought Alabama would win to say that I'm shocked that Clemson followed through

with the season that they did. I mean, I don't know that I'm shocked by that because they were

really, really good. They were the best team. They were the most dominant team. They were the

most deserving team.

I thought Alabama would win going to the game because I thought the one chance people had at them was Georgia and they blew it.

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