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I think a lesser man runs from this show tonight.

A lesser man would be terrified.

A lesser man, if he. A lesser man if he went

0 and 7 picking Washington and Michigan games this year would tap out, would call in sick,

would pretend his vocal cords were damaged after throwing up from food poisoning. Something along

those lines. I, friends, have chosen the opposite approach. I am leaning into tonight's show

as defiant as I possibly can.

You may say pride goeth before the fall. But I would counter humble men die every day too.

That's a meemaw quote. It's not a meemaw quote. I'm all alone. I made it up. I am terrified.

But I do think we had one little sliver, one little ray of hope and sunshine that made its way into the office a little while ago. I am terrified, but I do think we had one little sliver, one little ray of hope and sunshine

that made its way into the office a little while ago. I think things are turning around for me

on the Husky Wolverine front and not a moment too soon because we are headed to Houston tomorrow

for the national championship game. But tonight we are jam-packed. We are high atop a chilly

downtown Nashville,

Tennessee, late kick live for Thursday night, January 4th, the year of our Lord, 2024. Yes,

we will predict the national championship game tonight, but we've also got portal bombs going

off left and right. We got Ohio State having a quarterback within the last hour or two.

We got big changes coming in college football. I'm going to broach that tonight.

I think there's a much larger conversation to be had probably after the curtain falls on the

2024, 2023 season. And maybe next week we'll do this. But too many of you have asked what I

meant by something I put out there the other day,

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