Live from Southern California. This is the Jim Rome Show.

Why don't we start with some college ball?

Great to be back from the ice cold basement there was in Wisconsin not as cold as I

thought I've got a recap on that later on but great to be back for another

huge year in the jungle.

Happy New Year to everybody.

And we did get a giant gift for making it

to another January 1st, the gift of college football, the gift of an incredibly epic day of college football.

The college football playoff has never been better than it was.

The Nick Sabon Invitational has never been more riveting

than it was, even if it didn't exactly work out for old red ass this time. But man it almost did didn't it? It

almost didn't I thought it was going to. Michigan's magical season of scandal

is still alive and well, however.

And the Conference of Champions is going out with a trip to the Naddy.

The men of Michigan versus the Huskies of Washington is going to be epic.

I love the matchup.

However, it did get pretty sweaty at the end for both those teams yesterday.

There was some extreme pucker action late in both those games.

Made the but hole poker up.

For instance, how about OT atT. at the Rose Bowl?

Red-ass!

Had his tide three yards away from forcing double-O-T.

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