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a.k.a. The cover three tailgate where they are just potentially as mystified as we are

by what we have seen from a crispy, a crispy three hour and 20 minute college football

playoff, quarter final.

Oh, oh, hey, Danny Canal, joining as well right here for an instant reaction show.

I'll tell you what, where the hell are you?

It's easy to be able to get everybody out.

The Miami Hurricanes had zero college football playoff appearances and zero college football playoff wins before this season. Now they have two

college football playoff wins and are advancing to the college football playoff semifinals

at the Fiesta Bowl after a 24 to 14 win against

Ohio State. An Ohio State Buckeyes team that was the betting favorite to win the national

championship, an Ohio State Buckeyes team that was picked by many of us to go and win the

national championship. They are won and done. You out of here. The cameras had the fans heading for the exit before it was done. Wow. We're going to spend a little bit of time, but breaking down what we saw here, how it happened, what's next for the Buckeyes and more. Danny, thanks for letting me use the office. I really appreciate it. You need the good microphone. My microphone's okay? You guys hear me all right? Yeah. Oh, perfect. Awesome. I had to. Well, and I had to work tonight because my wife, she wanted me to go to some New Year's Eve party and I told her I had to work. So this is why I'm here. I'm working. I'm working. I've had an excuse to get out. And it was perfect. To be able to watch the game with Chip and McKenzie was perfect. Just a nice quiet night. Get to get dialed in. I thought the game was a ton of fun. I thought it was a really good game. Ohio State came back, made some great adjustments to second half. I thought Julian Sand really stared at adversity right in the face.

I thought he played great in the second half.

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