Welcome to the Audible, presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Stuart Mandel, joined, as always, by Bruce Feldman for our second episode of the week.

It's week four.

We really, Bruce and I really enjoyed getting back into the rhythm of doing these one show coming off the games, one show going into the next weekend, and just a couple housekeeping items before we get going here.

It's been a while since we put out this request, but we would love to get your ratings and reviews,

presumably your five-star ratings, that helps get the word out about the podcast. So ratings and

reviews, if you haven't done so already, we'd really appreciate it.

Also, we've still got a 50% off sale at The Athletic. Go to theathletic.com slash the Audible.

That is $2.99 a month. Bruce spends more than that per day on coffee. So I don't know why you

wouldn't want to spend that for a month's worth of

great coverage, including the athletic was the only sports media outlet that had a writer

and was actually two writers, Nicole Aluerbach and Chris Finini, at the college football

playoff meetings in Dallas on Wednesday, where they threw a little bit of a wrench

into the, uh, that 12 team playoff that we thought might be coming.

Yeah, Stu.

So, uh, you were at the meetings the last time in Dallas.

I, one of them, maybe that was two months ago.

I didn't even know.

Yeah, it feels like forever ago

a lot has changed since then so what came out of the meetings yesterday especially with another

meeting set up for next week right yeah coming out of that meeting in june the four-person

working group had put together a very detailed proposal for...

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