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It's Thursday night, January 6th, the overlord, 2022.

The dog sled, the huskies are just outside the studio, producer Jesse, director Colin, and myself.

Look, we're not quite live tonight, but we had to get this thing in.

Massive snowstorm moving through the downtown Nashville area.

Even as we speak, it's going to be a tough trip home, but we had to get it in because it is not a spring game. It's not preseason. We don't do that in college football. It's the national championship game. And as we have told you for about a month, this is the night, the Thursday before the Monday, in Indianapolis when we're going to predict the national championship. So we will have a full game preview tonight. Mere moments from now.

We will predict the winner. We will give you our pick against the spread. We'll show you what the model thinks. I'm going to tell you what each team needs to do to win. I'm going to tell you what those semifinal games meant. And I'm also going to tell you what, if anything, we'll see repeated from the SEC championship game, which seems like five years ago. It's really just like a month ago. Thank you so much for watching. We're high atop snowy downtown Nashville, Tennessee. Also tonight, a lot of you

have been asking this already. I tell you be patient. You tell me shut up. You want to talk about

2022. Well, we're not going to quite do that, but I am going to take a look at seven or eight teams in

like quick hitting fashion. And it's, there are teams that to varying degrees people think are going to take a look at seven or eight teams in like quick hitting fashion. And it's, they're teams

that to varying degrees people think are going to be contenders, maybe next year, maybe in the

next couple of years. It's a lot of big name programs. So I'm not going to talk about SMU tonight.

My apologies, there will be time for that. But I'm going to tell you what I think, because some

of these I don't think have a prayer. And some of the other ones I'm going to tell you what I think. Because some of these, I don't think, have a prayer.

And some of the other ones, I think, may be right on the precipice. They may be ready, whether we say it or not tonight, to be ready to go in 2022. Look, it's going to be a very, very interesting weekend. Because whenever we can get out of here, we're going to head to Indianapolis. We got the national championship game Monday. We are going to do late kick live from

Indianapolis somewhere Sunday night. So be on the lookout for that. But as you know, as you've

come to expect on my social accounts, basically the show starts here. But really, there's some

stuff that I show you, especially on game day, on the Instagram live and the Instagram story and Twitter that you can't get here. I can't just go live every 15 minutes. Make sure you're following at late kick Josh. So many of you do. The few holdouts, the few of you who waited all the way until the national championship game, why not hop on board now? Okay. I don't want to waste waste any more time we have got a jam-packed show

tonight so let's dive into this uh oh boy look before it colin and don't even start it yet but

before i even get into the game preview you got to understand how big this is for someone like me

i have a little bias here i grew up right on the Chattahoochee River.

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