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Welcome to the Audible presented by Trader Joe's.

I'm Stuart Mandel.

Joined as always by Bruce Feldman for another loaded episode.

Bruce, we're going to talk to our good friend and frequent guest of the Audible, Tim Brando,

in a little bit on a whole variety of subjects related to our current

state of events here and how they connect to college athletics. But a couple stories we want to hit on first.

Our friend Brett McMurphy did a survey on Stadium

about playoff expansion and the results were frankly a little bit surprising.

He talked to 112 of the 130

80s in the FBS. 88% of the athletic directors want an 18 playoff when the current contract ends in 2025.

If I had guessed beforehand, well, like what would you, I mean I know the whole group of 5 was going to say yes they want it right so there's 50

percent right there but would you have guessed 88 percent overall I would have

probably guess 70 percent yeah I wouldn't have guessed 88 now one thing I wonder

about is there is going to be there already people who are money hungry.

They're going to know coming out of a pandemic. I think that probably does up it quite a bit.

Yeah, I mean for sure if you're anticipating some financial hits over the next couple of years,

the idea of expanding and getting a monstrous paycheck, maybe changing people's minds even in the

current thing.

But what it tells me most of all is there's one conference, the SEC, that has no interest in an 18 playoff at least the last

time we asked them about it. I would have thought that the other conferences

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