Hey everyone and welcome back to Power Hour, the Athletics Tuesday National College Football

podcast hosted by yours truly Nicole Auerbach,

and I'm joined by our good friend and colleague from stadium, Michael Felder.

And this is part two, part two of a series we're doing on contenders, although this is the actual

contenders portion.

We talked about some teams last week, and you can scroll up the feed for that.

That could have some special seasons if things go right. But Felder, today we are doing the real

title contenders, the ones that everyone has already penciled in for the playoff. And we're going to

maybe poke some holes in them, or least give us some some questions for them.

Yeah, I think the key is going to be kind of like, how can you hurt them? What's their weakness? Everybody talks about what you have, what's coming back. It's especially it's a weird year to talk about returning starters because everybody's got them. Everybody's got them. But that's one of the like, and I don't know if lazy is the right word, but it is the word I'm going to use.

It's one of the like, and I don't know if lazy is the right word, but it is the word I'm going to use. It's one of the lazy, oh, this team will be good because they returned this many starters. That doesn't really hold true this year on a lot of different levels, but it's still a metric that a lot of folks use. So we're going to kind of look, approach it from the other way, right? we're going to going to look at what don't you have? And, like, yes, we'll highlight some of the big spots or the proven spots that are going to be your kind of the backbones. But you've got to fill in holes and everybody's got holes to fill. Yeah, that's a good little cheat sheet. If other people are just talking about this team's going to be good because of X returning starters,

they probably did not actually prepare for the season or think about things.

But it's actually, unless they're talking about a group of five team,

because I do think that there's possibly more depth on some of those programs,

like Cincinnati than others.

But we are here to talk about the four main national

championship contenders and their biggest questions. So we are going to hit Alabama,

Clemson, Oklahoma, Ohio State. And Feldner, your choice for where to start.

I mean, let's, I mean, let's just go alphabetical order, honestly. Like, I'm,

so this doesn't mean anything about who we think is one, two, three, four. This is purely

an exercise in alphabetical order. I like doing it that way. Okay. Let's go. Alabama.

Um, look, you look at Alabama and like the biggest thing, and I know that you wrote it in the dock,

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