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Welcome in to Outkick the show. I am your fearless leader, Clay Travis. Happy 2026 to everyone out there.

I had an amazing Christmas and New Year's,

and I hope you and your family did as well.

We were on the road basically from what, like the 19th,

all the way until yesterday, went down to the Virgin Islands for the first time since I was

there as a kid, as I say a kid, like a 25-year-old, still a licensed attorney there, but the British

Virgin Islands and the U.S. Virgin Islands absolutely beautiful, especially during the holiday season.

So we had an awesome time there. I hope everybody

had an incredible time. We got a ton of stories to jump into. College football Final Four is set.

I'm going to talk about Stranger Things. I don't think I put it in the subject headings there,

but I've got thoughts on it. We also have incredible game last night. Steelers get the win over the Ravens. The NFL

playoffs are set. We'll break down some of that. The raid in Venezuela, Majuro arrested. And on top of

that, we also have Tim Walls basically ending his political career after a 23-year-old YouTuber

demonstrated the crazy amount of fraud that Minnesota has been allowing on behalf of Somali

daycares. All of that still to come. But let's go ahead and dive into college football to start.

And I want to begin 2026 with an

acknowledgement that I was wrong. I thought that Alabama would line up and play Indiana

really well in the Rose Bowl. I was 100% wrong. Congratulations to the Hoosiers. Senator Jim Banks texted me this morning. He said, hey, Clay,

if you wear your Indiana gear, then everybody in the state of Indiana will forget that you said,

mark my words, basically, save this tweet that Alabama was going to beat Indiana. I was wrong. I was wrong. I was wrong. If anything,

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