Welcome back to until Saturday. I'm Ari Waserman joined by Max Olson who is out of hiding from

irrational Colorado fans after the tremendous story and I'm going to say that again

tremendous story that he did on the Colorado buffaloes. How are we doing Max? I know it was kind of a rough few days for you but you know I'm so happy to see you and I just want to echo again I thought it was an incredible story and I'm sorry you had to go through that but we all go through that at some time.

That's okay, it's okay. I'm alive and well and it's good to see you buddy.

Okay, I'm happy you're here and Dan Wetslle one of the best, if not the best, college, not college,

sports writers in general in the entire world and one third of the college football

and the sports writers, humans. One of the best Humans too, yeah.

I undercut him by saying, I went college, then writer, then, yeah.

Let's just arrive at humans.

Yahoo's Sports and College Football Inquire Podcast.

Thanks so much for joining us, Dan. It's always great to have you here.

Well, as long as you got the introduction right, I'm good. Yeah, I think we're good.

I don't know. We have a fairly big show today.

I'm probably going to enrage a lot of people, but we are going to attempt to break down my

post spring way too early top 25 for next year. I wanted to start to show off by just apologizing to you all.

That was a very hard thing to do. I can't fathom how Chris Vanini does 131 teams every week throughout the season and I gained a new

appreciation because this is the first time I've ever been asked to rank teams before.

It's hard.

It's really hard.

But first we're going to talk about the new compensation model that Ross

Dallinger wrote about. A very interesting story and might just be another clue

as we try to figure out what the future of college football looks like.

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