What's up? Welcome back to the Barton and Bud show. This is Barton Simmons. That's Bud

Elliot's. And Bud, man, we're starting to get some guys on campus.

I feel like there's a light of the end of the tunnel at this point. I feel like we've weathered

like the biggest storm with regards to the pandemic. Football is on the horizon, finally.

And we're going to do a little mailbag just to mix it up, toss it around.

But I'm optimistic finally in what's going on in college football.

I'm wearing my Memphis blue here today for everybody on YouTube who can see us.

But we did not have Memphis in our top 25 of our 24-7 sports.

Barton did.

I didn't.

I went with UCF, and even though I'm probably the biggest UCF hater out there,

according to all their fans I have muted on Twitter,

I think UCF's going to win that league this year.

Barton likes Memphis.

But, man, it does feel good to see top 25s coming out.

I know the AP and coaches will be later on in the year,

but we're all kind of operating, I think, off roughly the same information. And that was,

that was fun to see today. And just judging from the traffic that piece did, readers and listeners

are excited to talk about college football again. Yeah, yeah, I think people are ready for it. People need it. And this has been college football is having a little bit of splash of cold water around the country with the news items surrounding some of the protests and the George Floyd killing. And so that's been really fascinating track as well.

So, you know, in a way, just sort of the movement, the activity, the discussion, even if it's

been around some more kind of cultural issues than sort of on-field issues.

It's still been, you know, it's still been, I think, productive to just get back into the discussions of college football.

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