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Such a weird time in college football right now, because on one hand, we're guaranteed to have a great story, no matter how the national championship game turns out.

On the other hand, half of you're telling me you're completely fed up with how the portal's operating, and there's some stuff to love, there's some stuff to hate. I happen to think we're just right smack dab in the middle of, I don't know, for lack of a better term, a hurricane. And that won't last forever. So, you know, maybe if you're turned off by certain aspects of the sport, just kind of ignore those for a little while. Maybe they are variables. Maybe they're temporaries. They're not constants. were're jam-packed. We're high atop. What was a Sunday downtown Nashville, Tennessee today, I assume it's dark. We don't have a skylight in the studio. New studio, you can't tell, but new studio. Our folks have done a great job in here. Nashville skyline. Look at that. The neon over here in the background, Sunday, January 11th, the year of our Lord 2006 so gigantic stack of papers in front of me I've got some early thoughts in the

national championship game but we're not doing the full game breakdown tonight but

the portal the portal has lost its mind since the last time you and I spoke and I

will discuss I mean the quarterback situation alone warrants an entire 10-minute conversation. So I won't go too heavy on the portal tonight, but we'll go like kind of sort of moderately heavy on the portal. I got a huge mailbag. I mean, we opened up the mailbag earlier today. The mail runs on a Sunday here on this campus. And man, we got flooded. So we're going to all sorts of different directions. lot of dan landing doubters out there all of a sudden hoops to monks just good have seen that

coming by the way someone asked about targeting which just gives me a perfect opportunity to swing

the baseball bat at the pinata that is targeting not just in college, but this is a college football show,

but it's just a football problem right now. So it's going to be a fun, lively mailbag tonight,

and they're watching us. Yes, they're watching us in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and

Spokane, Washington, and Denville, New Jersey, and Anderson, South Carolina. Thank you guys so much.

Just do me one additional favor and subscribe to the channel. Most of you already have. Let's just be real. Most of our live audience has already subscribed. I know many of you will watch this on replay tomorrow and the next day and the next day. So make sure you and your cousins and mother and father and me, ma'amaw and people, you're all subscribed. It doesn't cost you anything. It just helps us out. And we always thank you in advance, because I know you will. All right, let's dive into the show. So here's what I would like to do. I told you I'm not going to do the full game breakdown tonight. But what I will do, because we will be probably in Miami this time a week from tonight on the eve of the national championship

game, which we inexplicably wait until January 19th to play. Bradley, here's a good end point for

you. Some early thoughts on the national championship game, Miami, Indiana. All right, so the outcome

obviously gives us a memorable story. It gives a national championship to a program that in Indiana's case,

no one ever thought could win one. In Miami's case, people said couldn't win one anymore.

Somehow the sport had passed them by, like I never really understood that train of thought.

Then there were other people who thought Mario Cristobal couldn't win it. I got where they were

going, even if I disagreed with them, so we're going to get a memorable story either way. But more so than the storyline business, this is kind of the football business, and we're looking at a football game. So I had some questions I wrote down. First question, can Carson Beck play a clean game? What he did on the last drive, for instance, against Ole Miss, you bottle that up, that's good enough to win a national championship.

That's good enough to beat Indiana. Now, it's asking a lot to get that for four quarters. I will grant you that.

Indiana, number one team in the country in turnover margin, they're averaging one and a half of them per game.

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