Welcome back to the latest edition of the Ottawa presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Bruce Feldman joined.

As always by my colleague from the Athletic Stuart Mandel.

It is a Monday.

We normally tape on Sunday,

Sunday, but now that the regular season is gone, we've moved into bowl season, it is the most

wonderful time of the year. Stu, I know we just had the Heisman. We'll talk about this in a second,

but are you in the holiday spirit? Oh, yeah. Well, you know, we celebrate Hanukkah in this house and we had a big

Hanukkah party over here on Saturday night and there's been an opening of presents every night.

Just just having a blast over here. What about you? Yeah, we had, we've had some Christmas parties

already. It's like we're at the part of the week where I think

my son's soccer team has has multiple parties and we have our football party to tomorrow night,

which I'm excited to see our championship team, which I haven't seen since the title game. So it's a

fun time in a year.

It's like, I love this time of year.

It's, you know, it's just, it's, you know, one of those things where I think you have the

bowl season, you have a lot of stuff where you can kind of catch your breath, hopefully

a little bit with football and pick up into other things, and you can be around your family. And I don't know, it's the older I get,

the more I've come to appreciate this time of year. I think next year is going to be a huge

adjustment for college football records, because I have always really appreciated, like,

you get to the, I mean, it can get pretty, I'm running on fumes really appreciated like you get to the I mean it can

get pretty I'm running on fumes by the time we get to week 14 15 whatever it is and then we come

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