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Until Saturday: A show about college football

National Championship preview with Ari Wasserman

Until Saturday: A show about college football

The Athletic

News, Football, Sports, Sports News

4.61.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 January 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Andy and Ari look ahead to the final clash of the 2020 season on Monday night in the College Football Playoff National Championship game between Ohio State and Alabama. The duo canvass the recruiting prowess of both programs (2:30), and highlight the difference-makers in the national title bout. How does this year's Crimson Tide squad compare to previous years (10:00)? What about in recruiting and defense? Could this contest develop into a no holds barred, running-focused game (16:45)? Andy and Ari examine both program's position groups and compare the talent on each side (20:45), plus the guys place both squads' defenses under a microscope (24:00). Last but not least, prediction time (35:00)!


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0:00.0

Welcome to the Andy Staples Show National Title Game Edition.

0:14.0

One more game.

0:16.6

The One Ring.

0:18.5

To rule them all.

0:22.1

Alabama, Ohio State from lovely Miami Gardens, Florida.

0:27.7

Everybody's going to say South Beach, but that's not where they play the games.

0:31.5

I think there's like one football field on the island of Miami Beach,

0:35.0

and it's not big enough to host a national title game.

0:38.7

Ari Wasserman, you're also in a tropical location, but not the same tropical location that I am in.

0:44.8

I am in Miami. You are in Cabo. Yeah, I would trade you, though. I would trade you for, I mean,

0:51.1

the last four or five nights have been wonderful, but now I wish I was at the national championship game with you.

0:56.6

But I'm happy that the athletic has us covered with you and Landis and Aaron Suttles and all the dream team of the athletic college football writers.

1:04.3

And the one thing I wanted to say is I find it funny because I messed up the counties when we were talking about Florida and the previous podcast.

1:12.5

And I called Dade County something that should have been Broward County.

1:16.2

And that messed you up.

1:17.2

And you were all wound up about it.

1:19.4

And I think that everybody messes that up.

1:21.3

And I've noticed that you don't think that you think that everybody needs a map of South Florida because I don't know that we got the counties all correctly. Miami, Miami Gardens, Dade, Broward. There's a lot going on down there. Well, exactly. There's three counties you need to worry about in terms of recruiting, and that's Dade, Broward, Palm Beach County. Those are your big talent producing counties. Date is where Miami is. Broward is where Fort Lauderdale is.

1:45.8

Palm Beach County is where Palm Beach is.

1:48.7

And Bell Glade and the Muck and all that good stuff too.

1:51.7

But yeah, that's, you got to get your geography right.

1:55.0

I just, it makes me laugh because LeBron James said, I'm taking my talents to South Beach.

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