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 Michael Fowler of Stadium to break down the biggest story lines in college football this week in an hour or less.

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Opponents are changing by the hour. You got to, like, keep track. I think as we're recording this, San Jose State and Hawaii have a game scheduled that's announced TBD location. So it's hard to keep up. Yeah, San Jose State, obviously, I was looking for them taking on Boise State. I was looking to see if they can stay undefeated. I love me some Nick Starkle.

And it's an ever-evolving landscape and kind of to take people behind the scenes. Most of us, when we work, we like to have a plan.

And it's been really hard to have a plan this year because things are constantly changing. So

we got a lot to get into. I'll let you lead us down the road.

Obviously, Ohio State is kind of the biggest story on a national scale.

Yeah.

So, you know, as we're recording this Monday afternoon,

you know, Ohio State did put out some information earlier on Monday

that some of the players have been able to return to the facilities and

work out in small groups today.

Again, Monday, they are doing virtual meetings, you know, to be to be proactive in that

space.

And, you know, Gene Smith spent a lot of his time on Saturday when he met with the media

talking about, obviously, you know, all the immediate

concerns about taking care of those who've tested positive. Ryan Day is one of them.

But also trying to provide the opportunity to play this game against Michigan State. Everyone

knows the numbers. Everyone knows that they've already missed two games on their schedule and

they need to get to six

to be eligible for the Big Ten championship games. So that is the number one story, I think,

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