Welcome back to Power Hour, The Athletics, Tuesday National College Football

Podcast hosted by yours truly, Nicole Auerbach.

I'm thrilled to be joined by my friend and colleague Chris Vanini to break down all the

biggest storylines in college football this week in an hour

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impact, which is a timely tag with signing day approaching. And Chris, it is great to have you on. And also, I'm surprised we can

get you on because it is, we're full on in the middle of coaching change season. We are,

the carousel is spinning. And you are a very busy man. How much sleep are you getting right now?

It's a busy time.

The calendar is different as well. Normally this kind of thing happens Thanksgiving.

Normally we have some coaches fired along the way. And instead, most of it's all happening now.

And some places that we didn't think we're going to make a change are making to change,

some places we did think aren't. And you never know what the next day is going to bring on top of that

we have not only a conference championship games but just other games and a bowl game

happening on Saturday as well so it's been a weird year and I think it's a pretty

fitting weird end to it.

Yeah.

So we're going to have a bowl game.

We'll finish before some conference championship games will finish.

We will also have a Pac-12 championship that has USC playing Oregon, who it was not originally scheduled

to play in the PAC 12 championship, but Washington had no available offensive linemen. And so a day

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