Welcome to the Andy Staples Show and Friends podcast for the flagship college football podcast at The Athletic.

Thank you for joining us today. My name is Sam Khan. I'm senior college football writer for the athletic, also known as a tech expert, joined as always by my

great friend Max Olson, National College Football Writer for the Athletic and our expert on the transfer

portal, realignment, stop break, and this last weekend, food in Austin, because he was there

over the weekend for the Alabama game. We have a great show today, plenty of discuss ahead of

week three. And of course, we had our special guest,

Mani Navarro, our Exile, Miami Beat Rider, talk about the Canes before they travel to Texas A&M for a ranked matchup at Kyle Field on Saturday night. But Max, first off, let's start with you. How are you? Did you survive, Austin? Did you gain some weight? How did it go? You know, the weight management wasn't too bad, I think.

Yeah, as soon as we got to town, my... survive, Austin. Did you gain some weight? How did it go? You know, the weight management wasn't too

bad, I think. Yeah, as soon as we got to town, my son got sick. So that prevented us from doing

pretty much anything in Austin other than me covering the game. So that was interesting. However,

I can assure you, we still ate very well. Thank God for DoorDash and takeout, right?

So I'll give you, I mean, if I list everything off, then I probably would start

to feel a little bad about, I mean, how well we did this weekend.

But I'll give you the top three, okay?

Okay.

Number three, we had via 313, which I always like.

Have you been there yet?

I have not been there yet. Detroit style pizza. It's terrific. I missed that place for sure. Number two, Veracruz All-Natural. I know you've been there. Absolutely. Had some breakfast tacos from Veracruz. Unreal. I mean, so good. It just and Lincoln, Nebraska, we just, it doesn't exist like that out here. It just doesn't. Yeah, I used to stay when I used to go for games, I used to stay at a hotel that was literally down the street from a Veracruz. And so that was my go to every time. I stayed in Austin for about a year stretch there. It was, it was fantastic. Oh, I had a Poblo

Omigos one. Oh, my God. So good. Nice and spicy. Number one, Terry Blacks barbecue. Yes. Terry

Blacks has become my spot now. Like every time I go there or get food from there, it's better than

the last time I had it. Those guys are absolutely crushing it. Had some brisket. My wife likes

the turkey and sausage, so we did that. But then the sides there are really terrific. Great

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