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

podcast hosted by yours truly, Nicole Auerbach, and I'm thrilled.

As always, to be joined by my friend and colleague Michael Felder from Stadium to break down

the biggest storylines in college football this week in an hour or less.

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show. Five stars, because much like Ari Wasserman's favorite recruits, well, we're five-star

people and we want to make immediate impact. And Felder, you are a five-star person. I miss you. I have not had one of your delicious meals in a while. We need to change that. We need to change that. You let me know when you want to come over. Doors open. I know. I got to pick the day of the week, though, because I got to, you know, I got to get on like a pizza day. I got a pizza Wednesday. I got to do, you know, Wings Monday. I got to, I got to be

strategic about this. Yeah, you, listen, you tell me, we'll make it happen. I'm excited. My dad's actually coming to visit next week. So it's, um, he's going to get to experience some leftover wings and then a real pizza, make pizza with his granddaughter, which should be pretty good. Love it. Does he have any requests when he comes?

No, he says, listen, be pretty good. Love it. What does he have any requests when he comes?

No.

He says, listen, you're the boss applesauce. Let's make it happen. Love it. I love it. And we're going to get into our new favorite weekly segment, which is the flavor of the week where we talk about what we're cooking and the teams that we like on the field a little bit later in the show. But Felder, let's start with the big news out of Monday because apparently we cannot go a week without a coach

getting fired before the end of the season because this is now where we are in college football.

Texas Tech fired Matt Wells on Monday. And it was actually a very interesting dynamic because, you know, there's a reason

we see a lot of college football firings on Sundays because you start the week.

I mean, he had fully gone through like a Sunday night press conference talking about, you know,

the outside noise and then focusing on the next

game and rehashing their loss. Like all of that had already happened. And then Kirby Hoka

goes and fires him Monday morning. What was your reaction to this news of five and three Texas

tech team? Honestly, it was just kind of like, I mean, I guess, like, what's going to

happen? Like what, I guess to me, whenever I think about this, I think about the actual players

and how that impacts them. I think about their recruits and how that's going to impact them.

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