Hello and welcome back to Power Hour, a weekly show hosted by me, Nicole Auerbach.

I am joined, as always, today, by the Athletic Senior Writer, Chris Benini.

It is bowl season.

As you listen to this.

We're probably getting underway with the first bowl games.

This weekend, we'll have a lot of football to talk about and we'll probably see a lot of younger players.

As we've seen some opt-outs, we'll get into some of the injured players

and opt-out players and portal guys later in the show.

But hello, Chris.

Happy bowl season to you.

Yep.

Good to be here.

Good to be back.

We were just talking.

We're losing track of what day it is, what week it is, when exactly conference championships

happen.

But the regular season is over.

Army Navy is done.

Bowl games are here. And this is all happening at an incredibly sad time across college football with the passing of Mike Leach.

So, yeah, it's been a lot going on this week. Yeah, and, you know, the Mike Leach thing, obviously,

we've got a lot of remembrances on this very pod feed. You can listen to Andy, Ari, and David Ubin sharing stories and talking about his impact, both as a football coach and as one of the great personalities in the sport on this feed. So be sure to go check those out if you haven't listened to those pods.

Also, Stu and Bruce have an episode also commemorating Mike Leach on the Audible.

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