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Here on the Cover 3 Podcast, Chip Patterson, Barton Simmons, Week 13 in the Books.

Our coverage championship games are set. The regular season is done.

We've got some win totals that we got a cash in on from a locks perspective.

Barton Simmons, your final regular season week in the books.

Championship week is here.

Heads are rolling and coaching. We will get to some of that, both decisions to keep head coaches,

decisions to move on from head coaches and what may come next.

But as a whole, do you feel like we've had a good launching point into our final playoff run here?

You feeling good about the college football season?

Yeah, I think that the thing closed in style.

Right.

I mean, it was a fun final weekend.

So much so that it creates a little bit of a conflict for us trying to decide how to dig in.

With all this coaching stuff going on, where to start.

But I think there was enough to chew on from this weekend to where, you know what,

there's finally even a little bit of drama surrounding the playoffs for the first time practically all year.

So plenty to chop on here today.

So we've got, as you know, we're going to talk about the playoff picture.

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