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

podcast hosted by yours truly, Nicole Auerbach, and I am thrilled, as usual,

to be joined by my friend and colleague Michael Fowder from Stadium, and we'll break down

the biggest stories in college football in an hour or less. And if you enjoy this podcast,

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immediate impact. And Felder, I am excited to talk to you about actual football. We had a full

week one. And there's so many different things that happen we're recording this Tuesday morning so

we're finally we went through what five straight nights or six straight nights of college football

closes out with an Ole Miss 43 24 win over Louisville which closes out a dreadful weekend for

the ACC we'll talk about in a second but But it was great. It felt great to see football. It felt great to see full stadiums. And it just, you texted me on Monday. This is normal. You felt normal. Yeah. Listen, I'll be honest. This week kicked me in the behind, or last week, if you will, not Wednesday so much, it's one game. One game's not that big of a deal, but Thursday, Friday, Saturday was rough. And, whew, buddy. So I am, but no, Monday did feel normal. Monday felt like the, Monday was the part of football that I like. I know other people don't particularly like it and other people don't care about it. But Monday was, I don't know, I watched games over and over and over and over again and took notes and did a bunch of like charting and calculating. And so that's the part that I like. So yeah, Monday felt normal. Monday felt like it was interesting. My wife came downstairs and she was like, oh, you look like happy.

Like you look like you're in a good one.

I was like, yeah, this is the part of football that I like, the football part.

Glad that she recognized the surprise that is happiness in Michael Fowder.

It doesn't happen often. It doesn't happen often.

Doesn't happen often.

So let's get into it.

And I do want to start where it ended, which is Louisville's loss.

You know, Ole Miss was playing without the head coach, Lane Kiffin, which is something

that we will need to get used to.

It's something that will happen.

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