Hello, welcome in the latest episode of That SEC podcast.

I'm your host Michael Braden, go by SEC Mike on them Twitters.

And there he is our great friend Steven Lassen, senior editor over at Athlod Sports.

Merry Christmas, Stephen. How are you? Merry Christmasod Sports. Merry Christmas, Stephen.

How are you?

Merry Christmas, Mike.

Merry Christmas to you and all the cousins.

I am still angry at the college football playoff committee,

but I am also very excited to talk some playoff games and talk some other things in the

great world of college football, my friend.

Yeah, no doubt.

So, man, it's,

you know, the portal doesn't even open, Stephen, for like two or three weeks, but

good luck telling that to all these quarterbacks and some key players around college football,

because that thing is spinning out of control already. We got an epic, epic weekend. I'm always used to, Stephen. I don't

know if you're used to this yet, but we used to have a college football season, and then we

had like a quiet three weeks to a month, and then we'd get bowl games. But now that they've

expanded this playoff, you just look around the corner and the playoff. It's so weird. We get these marquee games. Everybody's down to watch. And before a lot of these middling bowls, it's kind of backwards how they do it. Yeah, it is. It's weird. I mean, you probably remember this when they had like the BCS. There was like the buildup of all those games like you get

your holiday bowl you get the chick fillet peach bowl and then you'd get the sugar cotton in the

national championship game and here we are the bowl season just kicked off on Saturday we got a

couple during the week and uh here we go Friday night a big game in Norman and three games on Saturday.

So I mean, Mike, I guess that we kind of gotten used to the 12 team playoff and sort of move past like the pros and cons to it.

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