Here we go. Welcome to Pat McAfee Show. I'm AJ Hawks sitting in at Pat's desk. He's down to Atlanta for a big game, boys. There's a big game last night. Lions beat the Cowboys.

Football! It happened last night. Obviously, one of the best ever on the call, obviously up there, and Peter makes an appearance. Pat, I know you're down at the beautiful Mercedes-Benz dome right there in Atlanta, Georgia for the SEC Championship. Who do you got with you there? You got a couple guests. Yeah, obviously, living legend Peter is here. Peter Herbst Street, an absolute stallion, and then Kirk Herb Street, fresh off the call last night up in Detroit. Shake his hand, Kirk. What the hell was that? What just happened? I had that Howie Mandel thing. That was unbelievable. I thought he was doing, I thought you were doing Kirk. Oh, the knife hand. Yeah, I didn't know you were. I thought knife hand. Okay, I respect that. I understand that. Peter's here, obviously. But Kirk, obviously, fresh off a flight from Detroit down here to Atlanta for the SEC Championship. It just means more, doesn't it? That's kind of the big selling point is it just means more down here. That's what they say. Alabama versus Georgia. It's obviously storied in tradition and a rivalry, seemingly as long as ball has been ball, two great teams trying to take home the SEC championship. Yeah. Yeah, I think it's going to be a great. It's always a great scene. You know, we do all these games from the beginning to the end, all the way to the national championship. And I always say, and people would say these conference championships, they don't matter the way they used to show up here Saturday at 4 o'clock and feel the vibe and the energy that'll be in this dome.

It's still a championship on the line.

It's not what it used to be.

You win this, you advance in the old days, you lose, you're out,

but this is still going to be as good as seen I think college football has to offer.

Now there's some championship games where if they lose, they're obviously out of the conversation.

If they win, they might be out of the college football playoff conversation.

And certainly chaos could happen throughout championship Saturday.

The Big Ten obviously has number one versus number two.

And AJ, I talk to you.

Thank you for traveling over to Indianapolis to the Thunderdome on this glorious dukey feel-good Friday. On that note, Ohio State, very used to the Big Ten championship games,

very used to the massive moments, very used to it all. Indiana under Signetti here, already in a

Big Ten championship game in Indianapolis. Seatkeek sending us stats.

The Hoosiers, I think, are about to fill up the Loudhouse in the Lucasoil Stadium. They're not just going to fill up the stadium at night. I think the entire city all day. Well, how did people in Columbus feel about this? You beat the cute Indiana Hoosiers last year, right? That's kind of maybe the thought. Or do you have respect for their team this year? How do you think Ohio State fans feel about the championship as a whole?

No, I think the people that I have been around, the people, That's kind of maybe the thought. Or do you have respect for their team this year? How do you think Ohio State fans feel about the championship as a whole?

No, I think the people that I have been around, the people I talk to, they have a ton of respect for Signetti and what Indiana has done. I mean, Indiana is legit. You can't, I don't think you can doubt them anymore. He comes back after the great year last year, and they put on another unbelievable performance. So I think it's a great like you know what do you call?

Like measuring tool or measuring things to say hey measuring stick.

Measureing stick.

Liz. unbelievable performance. So I think it's a great, like, you know, what do you call? Like measuring tool or measuring thing to say, hey, measuring stick, litmus test, all of those old cliches you want to talk about. But I believe, Kirk, you would know even better than I. I believe Ryan Day said nobody on this team currently has won a Big Ten championships. This is a big deal for these guys. They want to win, you know. So what still would say, if they're keeping score, we want to win the game, even though it is a little different now with the college football playoff in the future. Yeah, AJ, you know, anytime, if you're a player, you're playing for a championship and you're playing a team, let's face it, talking about do you respect Indiana? How can you not respect Indiana? You know, based on what they did last year. But to me, what they've done this year, they're a very different team this second year with Cignetti because of the line of scrimmage. They're tough to run the football on. They established their run game. Mendoza gets a lot of the recognition and the credit, which he should, but guys, I've been more impressed with, they go to Eugene Oregon win. They go in Iowa City in a tough environment and find a way to win without their fastball. They've just overcome the play against Penn State at the end of the game. They've got some moxie about them. They've got some belief. I just don't think, if this were last year, it'd be like, what do you say, cute story? That's kind of what last year. This isn't that way this year. I think it's a different Indiana team,

and I think the atmosphere in there year it'd be like, would you say cute story? That's kind of what last year. This isn't that way this

year. I think it's a different Indiana team and I think the atmosphere in there is going to be electric. It'll be awesome. Yeah, it's going to be spectacular. And you talk about maybe this year being different than last year. I think Signetti can feel it too. Signetti, AJ said, I don't have to be the person that's just like causing headline after headline after headlined every single week with everything I'm saying about how great our team is and how terrible

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